One of our most fascinating discoveries about successful people is that sometimes the only point of differentiation between them and others is that the succeeders stopped deliberating and took action in the pursuit of something about which they felt strongly. In other words, the idea that success stories are about special individuals - really
There is a well-known bromide that if you fall off a horse, you get right back on. The point, of course, is that you cannot let the negative experience of the fall control you. You need to immediately climb back on the horse so that the anxiety caused by the fall does not fester, and so that you erase from your mind as quickly as possible the
I have had the good fortune to become friendly with many highly successful individuals: world-class athletes and entertainers, national politicians, CEO's of major corporations and very wealthy entrepreneurs. The one predominant, common-thread characteristic they all share is incredible staying power. These are folks who will just never quit
One of the hot topics in best-selling books these days is talent - the debate being around nature versus nurture. Are some people born with a gift? Or is talent the result of years of training and practice? Most scientists today seem to favor nurture over nature. Here is a study I recently came across that I thought was
One of the most thought-provoking books that I have ever read is Flow, written in 1992 by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, at the time Chairman of the Psychology Department at The University of Chicago. This small print, 300-page book is full of important thoughts. And it is with a lot of humility that I summarize Professor Csikszentmihalyi's main
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