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The seven secrets of highly successful people
(lemmy.world)
Sandra Newman @sannewman
THE SEVEN SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
- Private school
- Legacy lvy admission
- Nepotism hire
- Seed capital from family
- Club memberships
- Personal assistant, nanny, ghost writer answer
- Journalists who ask, "What's your secret?" and uncritically publish the
I came from dirt poor and I'm wealthy now. In my opinion the key to success comes down to a few things.
Education: My mother made $15k per year and my private school tuition was $375/month. This also provided me with friends that were not dirt poor (this also helps a lot). My wife received the best education the Soviet Union had to offer, which is better than anything we could even imagine stateside.
Need: Hunger is s great motivator. It also gives you this every present fear that if you take your foot off the gas, you'll be hungry again.
Luck: This one is obvious. Plenty of people are hungry and plenty of people have good educations and still struggle.
I think my wife and I did well because we teamed up early. Had we tried solo I think we would have failed.
I mean, good for you, and you're not entirely wrong, but you've got them in the wrong order. Luck is number 1, because the rest flow from that (education, connections, etc)
People place WAY too much of their own effort (which is important), and not enough on luck.
As long as you're very cognisant that for many, many people, the cycle of poverty is unbreakable to not fault of their own.
If yes, then, I'm happy for you and you should still feel proud of yourself.
For sure, they weren't in order. Where you're born is all luck. The fact that I was born to a mother willing to sacrifice a large percentage of her income towards education is also luck. Etc.