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Those who have achieved something truly significant in life are distinguished from everyone else by their attitude to learning, failure and money. What exactly in these areas do such people consider not worthy of attention?
1. The status of a person from whom you can learn something
And such people learn very willingly, and from everyone who is smarter, wiser, more educated, more successful than them. Because they understand that it is not shameful not to know something, but it is necessary to fill in the gaps in knowledge, especially if in the future it will help to improve life, improve business processes or get off the ground.
Do not miss the opportunity to learn something new, ask people about their experience and point of view and you will be surprised how differently we look at the same events and situations and how much you can learn from others.
Do not repeat the mistakes of many managers who look at junior employees with a dismissive “But who is he to teach me?” and as a result, they miss their chance to change something for the better.
A true leader always remembers that no one, including himself, is able to know everything and see the whole picture. He willingly listens to anyone who has something to say, including about the shortcomings of a business, company or management, and learns useful lessons from such communication.
2. That failure is inevitable
Successful people approach failure philosophically: they know that it is failure that leads to success. After all, stuffing bumps, trying and making mistakes, we learn something new and improve, we exclude all incorrect and non-working strategies and options.
The opposite is also true: if you give up at the first failure, most likely you will not see success. And many of us do just that. It is easier for us to do nothing at all than to risk appearing as inept, incompetent half-educated.
We worry so much about what others think of us that we prefer not to try new things, not to explore new areas. We prefer not to even start – so, in any case, we do not have to listen to criticism in our address.
Well, this safe strategy has a right to exist. But the trouble is, people who are too cautious, fearful, and afraid of judgment rarely achieve real success. So starting today, try to treat failure differently.
Don’t take them too personally, don’t be afraid of them, and you’ll see, this approach gives you incredible freedom to try and experiment, fail and keep going.
3. Expenses for training that will help you achieve your goals in the future
Many people think that they can learn everything on their own. Why do we need another paid online course when there are YouTube and hundreds of articles: just a little push and we will learn everything on our own.
And as a result, saving, in fact, not so much, we spend months or even years on a skill that, under the guidance of a competent teacher, we could master in weeks.
Successful people, as mentioned earlier, are willing to invest time in communicating with others in order to learn something new from them, and are just as willing to invest money too. In the end, their time is too valuable to waste – it’s easier to immediately buy an educational product that will give them the desired result.
Yes, and we value more what we have invested not only efforts, but also money, than what we got for free.
Of course, if you start applying the strategies described above, this does not guarantee you success, but, one way or another, it is useful to understand the philosophy of people who have achieved something, and then start changing something in your life too.