Just had a guided tour of Richard Branson's Desert Island (on TV! - Cribs). He pointed out that as he had a successful hit from Janet? Jackson or the Rolling Stones he would add new buildings to his retreat. He built his citadel on Rockn' Roll... But it got me thinking about the money- making personality and what it requires. Obviously drive and ambition. But what ingredient is so present in Branson and his ilk but is so absent in all others? Don't pretend to have any answers but spirit of adventure would come into it. Upbringing. He got lots of encouragement from his family who were all somewhat eccentric individuals. Single mindedness, tick.
Personality also. I think he is a people-person. Someone sent me a business flyer and on it is a quote from Jim Rohn. " You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit." Howard Hughes? But he became a hermit After.
Thinking 'outside the box'. Tick. Restlessness. What is that man running from?! I don't think he sits still for that long.. A sort of nervous energy. An antipathy to formal education. Was regarded as a bit of a dunce academically and 'dyslexic'. Imagine if he had gone to university! It trains out all the entrepreneurial spirit.
Informality He is not a suit. Unconventional. Contemptuous of sclerotic business institutions who seek via legislation and big government to elbow out competition. Delegation. He knows how to find the best people for his purposes and doesn't think like a one man band. (Is this all banal and too obvious? Probably.) Focused and not easily distracted by extraneous diversions. He would work at his empire building whilst contemporaries were into tuning in and dropping out in the late 60's.
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Most people fear failure more than they desire success. Those fearing failure more end up - one way or another - working for those desiring success more.
Those who desire success more, but fail (not a small group) just end up like the ones feared failure n the first place; so they are actually no worse off than if they had never tried.
I think I followed that! Thanks for showing up. I'll link to yours when I get some assistance. (Now where did I put that 14 year old cousin?!)
I think those failures in your second paragraph are actually better off if they did but know it for most successful people use their failures as learning curves(if that is the right term). Only of course, if they don't allow their initial failure to traumatise them! (This is theory text book stuff as I am not speaking from experience!)
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