How to succeed in life: advice to graduates

What advice would you give a hypothetical 22-year-old graduate of the fact that he has to do in your life? This question originally appeared on the social service knowledge sharing Quora. Was recognized as the best answer Asano Evan (Evan Asano), founder and CEO of one of the leading marketing agencies Medakix. So what advice he gives to young people.

1. Read

Read voraciously! Everything that falls into his hands. Join a book club. Absorb books about self-development, communication, success, leadership, and business books on marketing and sales. In life you have a lot of what to regret. But you will never regret the time spent on Reading books. To choose what to read, use and service Quora recommendations from various blogs. You can also search for books rated in different categories in the Amazon.

2. Accept uncertainty as a given

This council gives Deepak Chopra (Deepak Chopra) in his famous book "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success." The world is full of uncertainty. The sooner you realize this, the faster will be able to make this uncertainty work for you.

3. agree

With everything and everyone. Stop arguing, someone to prove something, trying to control everything that happens to you, and make a better impression. It will not help you to influence the opinions of others. As time passes, no one will remember that you were right. Try to come to an agreement. In the life, work and communicate with people important harmony.

4. Be curious

We live in a beautiful, huge world full of mysteries and wonders. Encourage a curiosity and curiosity. They can lead you to amazing discoveries.

5. Be open to new

Your opinion about many things will change significantly. Even the most solid of your beliefs in a few years may change to the opposite. Do not let them stop you meet new people and experience new sensations.

6. Learn from communicating with ill-wishers

Now you find it hard to imagine with any manifestations of hostility you will encounter. You will need to choose how to perceive them. the machinations of enemies can become for you an obstacle to achieving the goal, and can become a source of useful experience. Choose the latter, even if it will not be easy. You'd be surprised what a positive change it will make in your life.

7. Believe in your strength

Research shows that if we are convinced that we have certain capabilities that have strict limits, we avoid the difficulties and lose interest in the execution of difficult tasks for us. On the contrary, if we believe that any skill can be developed, we are ready to stubbornly follow their goals. therefore believe in their capabilities and work on yourself.

8. Leave the comfort zone

It's a cliché, but the meaning of it is still relevant. If you do not challenge yourself and do not go beyond the usual, you never know what you can do.

9. Do not focus on the negative

Resentment, anger, other people's opinions... Just take the pressure and drop all this, you do not need it.

10. Travel

Do not sit in four walls. Begin to explore the world. This, too, you will never regret. Take a vacation and go to where you could not even conceive go. Save up money for a year, then Ride somewhere for a few months. Just do it.

11. Do not wait for the right moment

In most cases, when you are waiting for the right moment, it comes too late. Win those who are not afraid decisions and act. You may regret some of the phrases that you say. But that said nothing, you will be sorry much more.

12. Do not pursue the ideal

Everyone is wondering how Jobs and Wozniak had found each other, because their partnership was ideal. One might think that such fateful meetings happen once in a million years. But it is not in circumstances. They have made the ideal partnership, working together and constantly forcing each other to develop. So, the result of their joint efforts, Apple has become.

You can put in front of the distant goal, dream work for Google or to move to San Francisco, but do not dwell on dreams themselves. Focus on the means to achieve your goal.

13. Do something useful for other people

Many aspire to earn more money and achieve success. It's really important. But money and success should not be your only goal. People who have turned the world, not chasing profit. They wanted to bring something new into the world. Take, for example, Facebook. Initially, Mark Zuckerberg created a social network for communication among Harvard students. She is now used by more than one and a half billion people.

Think about what good you can do for your friends and family, co-workers, a company in which you work, the country in which you live. Think about how you can change the world.