Richard Branson: "5 things that I learned from my mother"

Eve Branson brought his son unrestrained dreamer, for the brave deeds which are almost always worth the strict calculation. And Richard has become one of the most famous and richest people on the planet.

Richard Branson - the eccentric billionaire, about the tricks that the whole world knows. The same bristly blond husky that dispute AirAsia stewardess was dressed - in a mini and a blouse.

Mama Eve Branson at the time, too, changed clothes, but a boy. So she came to the pilots, glider pilots. Then there was the Second World War and the work of the Women's Auxiliary Service Navy. And when the war ended, Eva again changed its role. This time she went on tour in Germany... a dancer. More later I became a flight attendant, and then travel through the air was a bit of a current kosmoturizma.

Too often, the children repeat, you can not do what you should not do it, wanting to protect them from pain, which follows the failure. In my opinion, this is the greatest mistake: the more you discourage children from trying to do something, the faster they will go out curiosity, determination and thirst for research. Today, I am who I am, because I was allowed to make mistakes. Failures build character and teach us much more than we can know, without trying to do something.

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Once preferring secular life home in the English countryside, her husband and three children, Eva never once lost its common adventure. Mom Branson has always been keen on various projects. And in almost every achieved success. And if not, I was taken for a new one. It seems that Eva became a businesswoman even before the invention of the word itself. And that's how she was able to grow from a stubborn tomboy billionaire visionary and grateful son.

1. Live, about anything without regret

People often lose time fixated on their failures rather than to channel the energy in the embodiment of new projects. Eve Branson taught never to look back.

Never about anything do not regret, just go on to something new. Branson was not born in a gold shirt. He remembers well how my mother found all new sources of revenue. They were often crafts. For example, a family making and selling wooden napkin holders and baskets for waste paper. If sales go bad, Branson looking for more profitable business.

2. Learn to survive and do it quickly

How do you like this story? When Branson was five years old, Eve dropped him out of the car, saying that he will go home from here itself. Richard eventually had tramped 5 km and more importantly, to overcome their fear of socializing.

This was not a punishment for children's misdeeds, and a lesson how to deal with shyness and learn to ask others for help.

But many adults afraid something to ask again.

3. Respect the work of others and do not take time off from work

The house Branson always did everything together. Nor only son, Richard, nor his two younger sisters gave no quarter. They all had their duties.

Eve taught her son never let anyone criticize. And she did not criticize the actions of Richard. After another antics could only say: "Go look at yourself in the mirror. How bad is it to you affected! "

4. Keep one's head

It is very easy to lose your head when you have multiple carriers and multi-million dollar lifetime income. But my mother taught Branson a stay.

Continue to dream, but do not lose your head. Neither of fleeting fame, nor on the number of zeros in the bank accounts.

5. Every day - a new chance

This is another opportunity for something new and exciting. Mom billionaire 93 years and it still works enthusiastically. Eve Branson Foundation founded and is trying to make access to education and medicine.