11 habits that will make you successful

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Look at everything from different points of view, and you will understand that you can achieve what you want much faster than you thought.

1. Set ambitious goals

Objectives are easier to achieve when they:

• Justified by intrinsic motivation. Napoleon Hill said: “Desire is the starting point of any achievement. Not hope, not desire, but a passionate desire that overcomes everything."
• Quite complicated. Otherwise, they won't motivate.
• Limited in time. The deadline forces you to drop artificial constraints and think creatively.

We get what we want. If you prefer to find excuses and excuses to explain the lack of progress in your life, then simply admit that you prefer your current position. Accepting yourself will help you calm down. Well, if you strive for development more than for convenience, obstacles on the way will not stop you, but move forward.

2. Program your subconscious mind

When we are awake, our consciousness and subconsciousness are in a state of conflict. For example, you want to be optimistic, but subconsciously, you still behave like a pessimist. However, you can reprogram yourself. When you fall asleep, the daily beta waves are replaced by alpha waves, then theta and delta rhythm waves. In the interval of theta rhythm, the brain is most receptive, and then it is possible to rearrange your subconscious patterns. No wonder Thomas Edison said: "Never go to bed without asking for something from your subconscious."

Try to visualize and even say out loud what you want to achieve before falling asleep. Visualization can help you get an emotional experience. You have to feel what it will be like to achieve the goal.

When you tune your subconscious mind in this way, thoughts and ideas related to your goal will arise throughout the day. Be sure to fix them and immediately try to activate them. If you ignore such prompts of the subconscious, it will stop offering them to you.

3. Learn and work in unfamiliar conditions

In 1905, Einstein published four scientific articles that changed the foundations of modern physics and our understanding of space, time, and matter. It is curious that he wrote them not in a physics laboratory or in his office, but in the Swiss Patent Office. Working in such conditions allowed him not to get hung up on laboratory methods.

When your working conditions differ from those of most in your field of activity, you can draw unexpected conclusions, combine ideas from different areas.

If you read what everyone else reads, you will think like everyone else. And if you think like everyone else, you will not be able to come up with anything new and unique. Be curious. Look for little-known sources, study what no one else has studied. Then your work will be truly valuable to others.

4. Pay attention to the processes (not the results) of those who have succeeded

If you want to improve in a particular area, watch people who are successful in it. But focus not on the results of their work, but on what exactly and how they do it. Then you will understand that you can also achieve a lot, because the process of achieving success, that is, your behavior, is completely up to you. And if you only think about other people's results, on the contrary, you will want to give up.

When studying how successful people work, do not try to repeat everything to the smallest detail.

Everyone has their own strategy. And besides, even successful people can be wrong about something. Identify their behaviors, key skills that would be useful to you. Once you've mastered them, expand and deepen these patterns so that you can surpass those you admire over time.

5. Make the most effective actions automatic

Learning new things depends on memory and how you use it. First, the prefrontal cortex, which stores short-term memory, understands how to perform an action. But when you have mastered it, it is almost 90% free. Now you will perform this action automatically, and the brain at this time will be able to focus on something else.

6. Learn by doing

We are accustomed to the fact that first we need to master the theory and only then move on to practice. And the availability of information has led to the fact that we often use learning as a form of procrastination. However, learning is best done by doing. This approach is called context-based learning. Here are its basic principles:

• learn the concept in its simplest form;
• use this basic knowledge in a real situation;
• try to get advice and feedback (this is often expressed as “failure”);
• apply the received criticism in practice;
• get feedback again;
• repeat until you reach mastery.

7. In the beginning, focus on quantity, not quality

Not everything that outstanding people produce will be outstanding in quality. Picasso created thousands of works of art, but only a few are considered masterpieces. Einstein published 248 scientific articles, but only a few of them brought him fame.

Quantity is the path to quality. The more you produce, the more ideas you will have. And some of them may be original and innovative.

8. Track your results

If you want to get better at something, measure your performance. Otherwise, you simply will not know what your success is. Tracking and measuring results will help you see and objectively assess your weaknesses. You will understand exactly what you need to focus on, and you will be able to systematically develop in this direction.

9. Find a mentor who expects more of you than you do

The expectations of others greatly influence what we achieve in life. As a child, the bar is set by the expectations of the parents. They form an invisible barrier, which is then quite difficult to overcome.

Nevertheless, it is quite possible. A person can always develop and adapt. Of course, growing and changing is difficult, sometimes even unpleasant, but if you don't give up, gradually you will overcome all invisible barriers. Especially if you are supported by the right mentor. This is why it is so important to surround yourself with people who expect a lot from you.

10. Remember that you will develop and will not always be able to work with one mentor

One mentor can only teach you a specific set of knowledge and skills. If you want to develop further, you will need a new teacher. A good mentor understands this and will strive for it. By teaching you, he transfers his knowledge to you, and it is in your work and in your successes that he will continue to live.

But do not forget to acknowledge the merits of your mentors. You have achieved success not only because of yourself, but also because of their help. Never speak ill of them and those who somehow helped you along the way.

11. Think flexible

People often over-classify everything around, and then fall into the traps of their own classifications. If you look at everything from only one side, it will seem that your options are limited. But almost always what you strive for is within your reach. To do this, you just need to change your view of things.

The worst thing is when you have a limited perception of yourself. Don't let your biases and long-held classifications define you and your behavior. You don't know who you can become and what you can achieve. Look at things from different angles and think flexibly, then your possibilities will be limitless.