REVIEW: "Group of Eight", Richard St. John

Smart listens to the advice of success. But if eight identical boards of several hundreds of successful people, it's a book by Richard St. John "Big Eight. The results of the large-scale study of successful people. " About her and talk today.

Entrepreneur, founder of The St. John Group, a millionaire, a popular speaker. When the largest Norwegian bank organized the VIP-event for its top executives, he invited as speakers of the two Richards - Branson and St. John. Speech by Richard St. John one of the twenty most popular video site TED.com: it gained more than 7.5 million views.

The history of the book began with the question, "What is necessary for success?». He asked his little girl and deprived of Saint John of peace for 10 years. In Richard interviewed over 500 successful people, including Bill Gates (Bill Gates), Richard Branson (Richard Branson), Google founders and Martha Stewart (Martha Stewart) during that time. Here is what he writes about the work done:

To understand what is it that is common between successful people I interviewed representatives of different professions. From A to Z. In the list under the letter "a", among others were, for example, actors, astronauts, astrophysicists, athletes, architects, authors and so on. I have not spoken with one representative of each profession. For example, I interviewed five astronauts and six internationally recognized architects. I also made it a rule to interview and have a very well-known, and entirely unknown people. Among the first there were the presidents of corporations, billionaires and celebrities. And among the latter - people that do not speak a lot, but who quietly and steadily changing the world for the better. This may be the winners of the Paralympic Games or contest "The Best Parent of the Year". The control group I included those who did not reach much success in life.

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Richard St. John, "Group of Eight"

In addition, St. John collected and analyzed thousands of other people's interviews and stories published in books, the Internet and social networks, radio, television and in newspapers. The content was carefully zakonspektirovat and incorporated into the database, which, according to Richard, "has grown to millions of words."

And then the real work began. St. John spent several years in the analysis of the interview, singled out success factors. And factors crystallized gradually eight qualitiesRequired for successful human life:

1. Passion: Successful people love what they do.
2. Hard work: they are very hard working.
3. Concentration: they focus on something one, and not on the whole.
4. The ability to overcome themselves: they are forced to act themselves.
5. Creativity: they give birth to new ideas.
6. Self-help: they always improve themselves and their work.
7. The ability to serve the people: they offer quality services.
8. Perseverance: they move to the target, regardless of the time-consuming setbacks and adversity.

The whole secret of success is that there is no secret. I'm dealing with this problem for 10 years and I can say that these eight qualities - the basis for success in any field. If they are not a person, he can try all the "secrets" of the world, but still tops he had not seen.

Richard St. John, "Group of Eight"

Disappointing news, right? What to do if there are no qualities, achieve success I want to? It's very simple: quality, defining success, not innate. Successful people develop and develop them in the process. This means that we are also in the business. And Richard St. John in the book "The Big Eight" describe in detail how to cultivate these qualities.

But even if you are familiar with the topic, and then the book will bring you a lot of pleasure. The reason is simple: in each chapter you will find a lot of interesting stories, inspirational quotes and sparkling humor. I advise to read the book in any month, but it is especially relevant at the beginning of the year.

"Big Eight. The results of the large-scale study of successful people, "Richard St. John

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