Edward Morrissey

Richard St. John. In his “8 Secrets of Success” TED talk, he shares the elements of success he compiled after interviewing 500 successful people:

1. Passion. Though recently a buzzword, it’s also a major happiness factor.
2. Work.
3. Expertise. Get good and own your skill.
4. Focus. Practice it like a muscle.
5. Push. Push yourself through self-doubt and inhibitions. Even great people think they’re not good enough.
6. Serve. Serve people something of value because it’s how you get rich.
7. Ideas. Follow through with your ideas; we all have them. Creativity isn’t magic.
8. Persist. Persistence, according to St. John, is the number one reason for success. Persist through failure and CRAP (criticism, rejection, assholes and pressure).

Here’s the video:

Awesome article over at Marc and Angel Hack Life that reminds everyone of a few key life truths:

1. The average human life is short.
2. You will only ever live the life you create for yourself
3. Being busy does NOT mean being productive.
4. Some kind of failure always occurs before success.
5. Thinking and doing are two very different things.
6. You don’t have to wait for an apology to forgive.
7. Some people are simply the wrong match for you.
8. It’s not other people’s job to love you; it’s yours.
9. What you own is not who YOU are.
10. Everything changes, every second.

Great article over on Huffington Post outlines 10 common mistakes we make that limit our happiness…

1. Avoiding deep and meaningful connections (like marriage, close friendships, and staying in touch with family)
2. Sitting all day
3. Never stopping to just breathe
4. Not joining a religion — or otherwise becoming part of a community
5. Ignoring your creative abilities
6. Spending all day indoors
7. Spending your time consuming instead of contributing
8. Working in a job that you don’t love
9. Eating alone
10. Believing that you are unworthy of health, happiness, and love

It seems every list like this contains a couple core themes:

1. Find what you love doing and do it for a living (until it kills you)
2. Find people you love being with and be with them

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— Ed Morrissey (@emorrissey) October 12, 2013

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