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What Factors Predict Whether A Person Becomes Successful?
The Definition Of Success
If a person achieves what he set out to do, and is able to reach the goal they set for themselves, they are considered to be successful.
There are three positive traits that help us align towards our set goals, and make success easier and faster for us: Perseverance, emotional intelligence and humility.
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Clarity
First, you have to know what you want. Sometimes this is best discovered by knowing what you don’t want. This can only be accomplished by trying, experimenting, and taking action.
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Focus
Once you become clear about what you want to do, identify the tasks that help you make the most progress.
If you can discipline yourself to work on high-value tasks, your life will change for the better.
Goal Setting
Goal setting gives your mind something to focus on. If you don’t give your mind something to go after, it won’t know what to do. Use the SMART criteria for setting goals:
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Realistic
- Timely
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Predicting romantic desire
The things that are needed to be able to predict romantic desire.
- Actor desire. How choosy people are.
- Partner desire or average attractiveness.
- Compatibility: Researchers measured compatibility by subtracting choosiness and attractiveness from dater's scores of romantic interest.
Compatibility prediction
To account for research failure, it is believed that when two people actually meet, they form a shared dynamic that is more than the sum of its parts. Their individual preferences do not make up the substance of what they would find attractive.
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Being Insanely Successful By Going Against The Norm
- Success means different things to different people and is not always about bigger cars or the number of followers.
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Being Aware of The Narrative Fallacy
The Narrative Fallacy makes us to see events as stories, with logical chains of cause and effect. When it comes to success, do not fall for the ‘narrative’ fallacy’ and think that great people became successful due to what happened to them, and if we emulate that, we will achieve the same result.
We need to do something extraordinary and exceptional to achieve great success, and that makes any successful person an exception, someone who did what few others were willing to do. Instead of googling for success, find what you want to do to change the world!
Success Is Something We Make Up
- Very few of us went through childhood without getting any emotional scars.
- Be it home or school, we suffered many problems when our impressionable mind wasn’t mature enough to handle them the way we can as an adult.
- Our worldview becomes skewed, and we start to build upon the mutated version of the world around us, messing up with our lives.
- Success by itself is not about money or fame or power, but our upbringing programs us to think about success in a certain way.