What is the key to success?
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- ohhhhhsnap
What do you think the "secret" is?
- monospaced0
Depends entirely on what your definition of success is.
- BabySnakes0
doing work
- ohhhhhsnap0
"The progressive realization of a worthy ideal."
- < monospacedohhhhhsnap
- uhhh...monospaced
- so... like being a basketball star?monospaced
- rhetorical thread is rhetoricalZOOP
- bball star? sure...ohhhhhsnap
- ZOOP0
- mantrakid0
Busting your ass long enough that it inspires people around you to bust their ass for the good of your vision.
- LOL maybe for happiness but not for success. Life is not a meritocracy.cannonball1978
- ZOOP0
"If at first you don't suck seed, keep on sucking 'til you do suck seed"
I know what you're thinking. pervert.
- moldero0
The best surfer is the one having the most fun.
Apply that to life/work =
- hotroddy0
Networking and learning the art of influencing others.
- http://en.wikipedia.…ZOOP
- <that's where Charles Manson learned his methodZOOP
- utopian0
It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know.
Just look at every major industry, a vast majority of the so called "though leaders", "innovators" and "creative geniuses" are hacks.
- Because they spend their time promoting themselves instead of working.bainbridge
- It's not who you know, but who knows youKrassy
- CALLES0
qbn
- ZOOP0
'tis by force of will that drives the human spirit to greater things, or maybe money and hoes?
- yurimon0
People you know in a success building network.
- sem0
1. Who you know.
2. Talent to backup it up when you meet them.
3. Consistency.- 2. and 3. don't applyutopian
- I think talent is 3rdyurimon
- Maybe I'm wrong, you got examples of people who just had 1?sem
- All the time. I'm not bitching but. people always try to bring in their own network. they claim they are the bestyurimon
- its ends up not to be the case of talent prob 80% of the time but who you know. shit still gets done.yurimon
- there are groups of talent network, all in one they are rare.yurimon
- yeah thats true. Though in design I'd have thought you couldn't blag talent? like in audio etc.sem
- true also.yurimon
- ukit21
Single mindedly pursuing your goals regardless of what other people think. Most people are heavily influenced by parents, friends, cultural expectations etc, ultimately leading to mediocrity.
- doesnotexist0
"it's who you know," works only if you're delusional enough to think someone else's life is something to aspire to.
success is what you make it. you have to define it.
- scarabin0
don't be a pussy
