What The Beatles, Walt Disney and Sir Richard Branson
unknowingly taught us about success
If you could thrust
history’s most successful people under a proverbial microscope, what are the
first common traits you’d notice?
Talent and luck are two
obvious answers. Yet they’re also the least useful, because neither can be
perfectly replicated by the layman.
The most actionable
takeaway is their persistence.
Can you remember the last time you should have
had confidence and faith in something you wanted… only to give up at the first
sign of opposition, negativity or trouble?
Those who enjoy
extraordinary success are not those who escape the storms - it’s those who
weather them. Here’s just a tiny example:
Walt Disney: The
legendary creative force behind the world’s most loved animations almost went
bankrupt with his first animation company! A news editor also fired him because
he supposedly “lacked imagination.” It’s estimated he was turned down 302 times
before he got financing for creating Disney World.
Richard Branson: As the
billionaire mogul of Virgin, even he’s had his share of failures. Remember
Virgin Cola or Virgin credit cards? Probably not! He’s lost hundreds of
millions of dollars but has not let fear of failure or negativity stop him.
The Beatles: Many
record labels rejected them. In one of the famous rejections, the label said,
“guitar groups are on the way out” and “the Beatles have no future in show
business.” Soon after, the Beatles signed with EMI, Beatlemania hit the United
States by storm and they became one of the most prolific bands in history.
How to cultivate a
persistent state of mind in 8 steps
According to Napoleon
Hill, you will program your mind for persistence when you have:
1. A Definiteness of
Purpose: knowing what one wants is the first and, perhaps, the most important
step toward the development of persistence. Strong motivations can overcome
almost any difficulty.
2. Desire: pursuing the object of your heart’s desire certainly makes it easier to obtain and maintain undying persistence!
3. Self-Reliance: belief in your ability to carry out your “organized plans” will encourage you to follow through with persistence.
4. Definiteness of Plans: “organized plans”, no matter how weak or impractical, encourage persistence.
5. Accurate Knowledge: knowing that your plans are solid, based on experience or observation of success, encourages persistence. Conversely, if you just make “guesses” versus basing your plans on “knowing”, you’re going to destroy any shred of persistence within you.
6. Cooperation: sympathy, understanding and “harmonious cooperation” with others will develop persistence.
7. Willpower: concentrating your strength of focus on building plans for getting everything you desire can also lead to fostering persistence.
8. Habit: Persistence is the direct result of habit. Your mind absorbs and becomes a part of your daily habits. In essence, it becomes what it feeds upon. For example, FEAR can be effectively overcome by forced repetition of acts of courage.
What’s your most
inspiring story of persistence?
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