10 Behaviors You Never See in Successful People

My favorites.


Naivety. Granted, we all start out sort of wide-eyed and gullible, but the sooner you convert that to savvy and skeptical, the better your chances of coming out on top. The reason is simple: suckers and fools don't win. Learn to question everything you read and hear and always consider the source.

Panic. High-pressure situations are common in the business world. Things almost never go according to plan and oftentimes they go terribly wrong. It comes with the territory. If you can't override your adrenaline response and remain calm in a crisis, you're sort of screwed.

Fanaticism. Passion is a big success driver, but when you cross that line and become over-the-top fanatical, that works against you. I've seen it time and again. It leads to a skewed perception of reality, flawed reasoning, and bad decision-making.

Persistence is, IMHO, the most important. Quitters never cross the finish line.

Steve Tobak AGAIN?

Naivety? SERIOUSLY? There was a VERY NAIVE set of statements a WELL KNOWN CEO of a MAJOR company made! I spoke to others from his company about it, and they said it is an inside joke! They said all of the guys employees feel the same way! At the example I gave them, they said a group of lawyers started "PANICKING", and quickly created a shield around the statements, shown as a large disclaimer in small print on all the ads where the CEO made this wager. The claim became virtually worthless, because you had to wait like 3 years and spend many MILLIONS to collect. BTW He is one of the richest and most well known people. He once made a claim implying that he had the most installations of his key product group of ANYONE! It wasn't true! You know what he later did? He BOUGHT the competitor!

Fanaticism? OK, I'll name names here! Can anyone say STEVE JOBS? He thought apple had a problem, and HE could fix it. He got rid of his detractors, and created LISA! It was a mess! WRONG PRICE POINT, INCOMPATIBLE HARDWARE, BULKY. He was forced out, and made NEXT. He did make a go of that, but it was a bit too much done in the wrong way with the wrong price point, so it didn't go as he had hoped.

Laziness? OK, I could say things about JOBS here also. But sometimes it works in your favor. Laziness can be a driving force if it leads to an acquaintance that can balance you out, or to a new idea. The way I heard the story, the 4004 came about because of laziness. And you are likely using a system built on the progeny of the 4004. ARM takes advantage of it by providing a shortcut to development. Rather than redesigning yet ANOTHER dedicated calculator chip, they designed an MPU that could b programmed to do the job. TODAY, the old calculator chips may only be used for the super cheap advertising value.

Quick-fix mentality? YEAH, like that CEO with the wager I spoke of earlier! Want to solve ALL your performance problems? Simply buy our product! "Fine print saying BASED ON ****OUR**** INTERPRETATION, AFTER 3 YEARS, AFTER professional services of so many millions of dollars, etc...."

Selfishness? Tell this to the likes of TL! THEY consider ALL the successful people, except THEIR politicians, THEIR friends, STARS, etc.... to be SELFISH! And HEY! To a degree, they ALL ARE! If they could honestly put their competitors out of business, without tainting THEMSELVES, they often WOULD!

Living in the past or future? Many have done both! Then again, to a degree, you HAVE to! You ALWAYS want to compare the present to the past, and hope it gets BETTER! I spent almost the whole day on monday fixing a problem I would NOT have had if I backed up an old config file. I DENIED my computer the ability to recall the PAST of that event, and ended up getting hurt by it. But you always have to look to the future to improve.

Steve

Well, even the WORST personality trait can often help out. To say successful people NEVER, or this is bad PERIOD, is kind of silly.

Steve

I think the behavior that no one should have is laziness. Successful people know tha success can be achieved with continuous work and laziness is never an option. if you want to be successful, be ready to work your ass off.

I agree with all 10. A big one that most people over look is the importance of humility and not taking yourself so seriously. Don't let your pride and ego stand in the way of success. You have to accept the good and bad that comes with putting yourself out there. Sometimes the best way to deal with failure is to just laugh it off and try again.

Thanks for sharing this! I believe in all 10 of them. But I guess, there's no perfect person who will not have all of them at the same time. I guess its a matter of managing it. People will be a little of this and that but they have to make sure that it won't get in the way of being successful

I personally like this one. Some people are just flat out immature that they tend to make an outburst whenever faced with personal problems. I believe that we should leave personal problems at home and try not to make people bad just because you feel bad. It’s immature and unprofessional.