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Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success

FILMED FEB 2005 • POSTED DEC 2006 • TED2005
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  • 지훈 김

    6 days ago: impressive speech! 
    I'm thinking of my future after graduation and working for a venture company inside university as start-member of the one, now. So I'm thinking different way(such as becoming graduate student, getting a better-paying job.) because I graduate next year. Sure, I may remain this place, but my passion for work cooled off.
    Although I reserve my judgement, I think that I get a clue to the problem by this speech. I had liked my work, but I don't like that because I'm doing the same work day by day. 
    I was forgetting the most important thing. This speech has helped to find it.
    My favorite word is 'passion'. Freeman Thomas says "I'm driven by my passion" at this speech. The distant future, I wanna be a person who is able to say that.

  • Adam Casper

    Jul 4 2013: Wonderful! This TED Talk gets right to the heart of it all. Brief and straight to the point yet with a powerful message. If you've ever asked yourself, "How do I become successful at something" or wondered where your life successes came from this TED talk has all the answers in just over 3 minutes. Thank you Richard and thank you TED!

  • Vinay Kumar

    Jul 4 2013: Super

  • Sung Hoon LEE

    Jul 1 2013: simply but powerful message. Thank you!

  • Ray White

    Jun 13 2013: Another Gem! Thank you!
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    Gabriel Assis

    May 29 2013: This was simple and funny!
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    kartlos aslamazashvili

    May 10 2013: first place neen indispensability

  • Quang Tran Xuan

    Apr 29 2013: You're really great. I love to hear you about business. In fact, sometimes i listen to this video again and i can find my passion to do my work again. Thank you so much.

  • Paddi ISIS AMORE

    Apr 28 2013: YOU ROCK!!

  • SUNIL BABU

    Apr 24 2013: ITS TRUE! MY MOM PUSHED ME TO GET A BANK JOB!!!!!!

  • B Anjaneyulu Reddy

    Apr 21 2013: This is an awesome presentation. I have already watching quite a lot of times. Each time I watch I want to reinforce these simple but powerful techniques. Totally worth watching best 3 mins spent. It will be great if I could get the slides used by the speaker. Can anyone help me getting that ppt?
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    Delano Woodman

    Apr 20 2013: John R. Wooden's "pyramid of success" is more complete, and Wooden's ideas are real world tested and not just data extracted from interviews. I have to wonder what Richard St. John has ever succeeded in doing, other than researching, writing and talking about success. Yes, these 8 "secrets" are almost always present when someone, or anyone, experiences success, this is self evident, needing no explanation and therfore, they are not "secrets". One thing I did like about this talk is that is was brief. If you really want to sit at the feet of the Guru of success, listen to Wooden's TED talk, and then visit his website, read his books and listen to the many successful people that he mentored during his 99 years on the planet. When it comes to Richard St. John's talk, I would say that it has been done before, and it has been done better. Wooden's ideas are original and profound, Richard St. John's ideas are the product of other people's thinking. When it comes to "success", I prefer to listen to someone who has demonstrated this achievment in both their professional and personal life.
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    jazmin kathrin

    Apr 20 2013: one day when Im talking up there in TED I'll mention this talk ,I wish this comment could be found so I can put it in my presentation !
    if I can do what I'm here to do... I am trying so hard :)

  • Willem Hechter

    Apr 19 2013: Excellent advice. I love the way it is presented and that is key. There are many books and articles on success but this shows what it comes down to - the basics.
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    Vijay Prasad

    Apr 19 2013: Super!
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    Sergio Fiallo

    Apr 14 2013: This is the best advice anyone who wants to be successful can get. Thank you.

  • Yi-Sheng Chang

    Mar 23 2013: I'm glad there're someone else pushing me

  • Miles Malachowski

    Mar 18 2013: While I agree that this is an excellent talk, it would seem the first statement back from Richard St. John to the young person seated next to him on the plane is, "What do you see as 'success' in your life?".

  • Enrico Gobbo

    Mar 8 2013: i do not see LUCK in the list......

    • Nik Tonglet

      Apr 10 2013: Luck is not a consistent factor in the secrets to succes. Also not really one you can rely on.

    • Francois Sigrist

      Apr 14 2013: You create your own luck through your hard work, Passion, focus, persistence, .... ;))

      • Enrico Gobbo

        Apr 14 2013: But it still something you can't control that i call "uncontrollable luck" ! 
        Everyone should be aware about the fact that an unespected event (someone calls it "dark Swan") 
        can destroy everithing you have done.... But at the same way a positive dark swan can biuld your own success. This il the reason i think Luck is a important key of success
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    Denis Golomazov 10+

    Mar 6 2013: Real secrets of success.
    Passion
    Work
    Good
    Push
    Serve
    Ideas
    Persist
    Focus

  • Ivar Wind

    Mar 2 2013: Nothing new here - it's what every other "road to success" book will tell you, and like everybody else who wants to sell books, he leaves out the bit about all the people who did it all and still managed to fail. Or put another way, he leaves out point number nine, luck!

    Basically, interviewing 500 successful people to determine what leads to success is like interviewing all the winners of a lottery about how they chose their numbers to figure out the best way to pick a winning lottery number. I can assure you, you're going to find some common trends. (If you think it's not at all the same thing, remember that rule number one to winning the lottery is to play in the first place - if you don't somehow pick a number you're much more extremely unlikely to win than if you do. If you don't work hard, you're less likely to succeed greatly than if you do.)

    There's nothing wrong with his suggestions - though half the points are just different ways of saying the same thing - and by following them, there's a good chance (still no guarantee) you won't end up a complete failure, but none of it, not even all of it put together, is a guarantee of any particular degree of success.
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      Michael Roberts 10+

      Mar 5 2013: Well, I think that doing a little something is better than doing a lot of nothing and even if you don't have great success I think you'll outshine 50% of Americans who don't want to follow these rules. As A.L. Williams said, 'you lose half the crowd just by working hard, you lose half of the rest by knowing what you're working hard for. Then it becomes a dog fight."

  • Stan Wilson

    Feb 9 2013: Eye opening and gives a new boost in the right direction ! I also lost a business and am on the rebuild road.
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    Debora Policarpo 20+

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    Feb 5 2013: Very inspiring! I am amazed how in such a short presentation he could send a clear message, straight to the point. I have shared this to everybody I know and encourage the young professionals to be inspired by this. Serve others something valuable and you will get well paid for it!

  • Kunal Shah

    Feb 2 2013: Interesting that it was just recently I was analyzing why one of my friends was so successful academically, and that was because of her mother pushing her through...., now I wish my mother would push me too.
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    Nisha Sharma

    Jan 29 2013: I love 'CRAP' as an acronym. Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure. To achieve success we really do have to cut through the crap.
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Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.
A self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved, Richard St. John spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success -- and distilling them into 8 words, 3 minutes and one successful book. Full bio »

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