(토요모임) September 8th (Saturday) Meeting: How to lead a successful life

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Hello everyone. This is Lisa.

On Saturday, I'd like to discuss about two topics.

1) 10tips from Bill Gates becoming successful and wealthy.

2) 10ways the most innovative people think differently.

It is obvious that everyone wants to live a successful & wealthy life.  In order to acheive that goal, we need to be more proactive and should be differentiate from other people.

Feel free to share your opinions and give tips to other members of your own way to make your life successful!  

Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, after founding Microsoft in 1975. He is now worth $76 billion, as Microsoft has risen to create the number 1 operating system brand Windows, which has been re-developed several times.

Microsoft also created Xbox, which has become one of the most popular, if not the most popular gaming system in the world.

I’ve scoured the net and compiled a list of 10 Bill Gates tips that he has given to people at one point or another in his life time, to show them what it takes to become successful and wealthy.  He is the wealthiest man in the world after all, so you’d be pretty stupid not to listen to what he says!

1) Start as Early as Possible

Bill Gates was only 13 years old when he started working with computers. When you start something at an early point in your life, you become molded around it. Not only will you have a chance of becoming successful sooner than most people, but you would also be less likely to want to give up.

If you’ve had a dream that you start working towards when you’re young, you will be more immune to people telling you what you can or can’t do. By the time you’re an adult and people actually start to take more notice of what you’re working towards, you will be stubborn enough to just ignore them.

The time that you’re most influenced by others is when you’re younger, so if you’ve seen things on T.V or on the internet where others have become successful, this will be imprinted in your mind and you won’t have doubt about what you can or can’t do.

2) Enter in Partnerships

Bill Gates was very fond of forming partnerships with people, people who were the top dog and that made Gates become the ‘Sidekick’. He was happy with this, because it unlocked new opportunities for him and the potential to learn from other successful entrepreneurs who could teach him a thing or two.

Not only that, but it meant that he built relationships with people that would definitely be able to help him out with his future endeavors.

3) You Will Not Make $60,000 a Year Right out of High School

Let’s be honest, you’re not going to make $60,000 a year straight out of high school, so if for some reason you think you will, stop kidding yourself. No matter how much education you have, you still need experience to work your way at the top.

You won’t get appointed CEO of a multi-national company just because you have a degree in business management.

That’s a position that you need to earn, by either starting your own company and working hard to take it to the top, or working your way up within a company and proving yourself to people.

4) Be Your Own Boss as Soon as Possible

Bill Gates became a boss at a fairly early age. He deserved it, and it put him in an excellent position with pure control over his success.

“IF YOU DON’T BUILD YOUR DREAM, SOMEONE ELSE WILL HIRE YOU TO BUILD THEIRS.” – BILL GATES

5) Don’t Whine About Your Mistakes, Learn from Them

 “IF YOU MESS UP, IT’S NOT YOUR PARENTS’ FAULT, SO DON’T WHINE ABOUT YOUR MISTAKES, LEARN FROM THEM.” – BILL GATES

What is the pointing in blaming other people for your mistakes? Who are you trying to fool? Your mistakes are on you, they are not anyone else’s fault, so stop blaming other people just to try and rid your conscience of guilt.

Mistakes are made to be learnt from. You now know what or what not to do in the same situation when it rolls around for a second time and believe me, in most cases it will roll around again.

6) Be Committed and Passionate

I think this is always included by every entrepreneur as a good bit of advice. You need to be committed to what you love and have great passion for what you do.

The successful people in this world make it look so easy because they absolutely love what they are doing. If you’re finding things too stressful and too hard, then I’m not sure you’re working on the right thing.

7) Life is the Best School, Not University or College

No matter how many books you read, no matter how many tests you take, nothing from university or college can properly prepare you for life in the real world.

“IF YOU THINK YOUR TEACHER IS TOUGH, WAIT UNTIL YOU GET A BOSS. HE DOESN’T HAVE TENURE.” – BILL GATES

Real life jobs and bosses does not just involve you studying and them teaching you. It’s real life work that you need to be able to carry out, otherwise you will be fired. End of.

8) Be Nice to Nerds

“BE NICE TO NERDS. CHANCES ARE YOU’LL END UP WORKING FOR ONE.” – BILL GATES

It’s true, people who you’d probably class as ‘nerds’ are actually the ones who will work the hardest, be the smartest, and be determined to succeed.

If you’re horrible to nerds then you’re basically taking your chances with fate, because you could easily end up working for one, or even apply for a position at a company who is run by someone you know and have been horrible to in the past.

Still think you have a chance of getting the job?

9) TV is Not Real Life

“TELEVISION IS NOT REAL LIFE. IN REAL LIFE PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE TO LEAVE THE COFFEE SHOP AND GO TO JOBS.” – BILL GATES

You need to stop getting sucked into Television and believing that what you’re seeing in some cases may actually be what people do in real life.

Real life is tough and anybody who’s anywhere near successful will not be sitting around in coffee shops all day talking to their friends. They will be out working the grind to pay their bills and improve their financial situation.

10) Life is Not Fair

“LIFE IS NOT FAIR. GET USED TO IT.” – BILL GATES

No matter how hard you work in life, there will always be times where things don’t go your way, perhaps through no fault of your own. Things that you cannot control. You will get knocked down, but you need to be able to stand up.

Life isn’t fair. It’s a test, a game, a risk. If you fall down and don’t bother getting back up, you don’t deserve to be successful. Winners know that life isn’t fair and they will keep getting back up until they’ve made it.

 By Dan Western

1. Do you agree life is the best school?  explain why you think so and why you don't think so.

2. Have you ever started your own business?

   Have you thought about having your own business in the future?

   If so, explain what kind of business it is and why you want to have your own business.

3. Do you have anything that you are extremely passionate about? 

    or something that you used to be very passionate about.

4. How do you think passion is important for a successful life? 

    Have you seen anyone who is extremely passionate about something in particular?

5. Do you have any nerdy friends?  

  - Have you ever been mean to nerdy people back in school? if so, why?

  - Do you think nerdy kids are likely to become more successful person in the future?

6. Have you ever learnt from mistakes?

  -What was the mistakes and what have you learnt?

7. Do you want to be successful in your life? What is the meaning of success to you?

8. What’s your short term goal? (month-six-month)

9. What’s your long term goal? (year-five-year)

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”
― Peter F. Drucker (Tweet This)

Success in any industry goes hand-in-hand with innovation: the ability to produce new ideas; provide better solutions; and pioneer new products.

The most successful people are not simply the hardest working, they’re the most innovative.

You can hustle and put in endless hours each week, but if you’re not stretching your innovative muscles, you’ll never achieve breakthroughs and success. From Edison to Branson and Cuban, here are 10 ways the most innovative people think differently:

1. They Look for Patterns

It’s called Apophenia: the ability to perceive meaningful patterns within random data. While it’s a universal human tendency, it’s more pronounced among innovative thinkers.

Intentionally looking for patterns within your industry will allow you to spot relationships that others cannot. It’s a skill that allows you to “predict” or foresee a problem — and that’s an opportunity for innovation. Great innovators are always finding how the outlier fits into the picture.

2. They’re Brilliantly Lazy

Bill Gates

Innovators live by the saying, “Work smart, not hard.” They don’t strive to create only the best product, but also the best process.

3. They’re Obsessive Note-Takers

Your conscious mind (working memory) can only process small chunks of information at a time. With a cacophony of streaming ideas, great innovators are incessant note-takers. Thomas Edison left 3,500 notebooks behind at his death.

When Richard Branson

Ideas can come from nowhere; your million-dollar idea can come while you’re waiting for your coffee or getting groceries. Keep a compendium of your ideas, it’ll be your trail leading to gold.

4. They Preach Perfection, But Practice Progress

Perfectionism can be crippling, but discarding it altogether is an open door for mediocrity. Great innovators still expect perfection, yet they live in the reality of progress. It’s a healthy pendulum-swing between the two.

They strive for the ideal and get work done in the real. The key is to aim for perfection, but keep firing to make progress.

5. They’re Allied With Their Fear

Described as a “quirky creative genius,” Paul Budnitz, founder of Kidrobot and Ello, says the key to innovation is your relationship with fear:

“Every one of my successful ventures has faced bankruptcy, come close to losing key employees, or just collapsed along the way. But by welcoming fear you also get the benefit of what being afraid brings: heightened awareness, compassion for others you are working with, and an unbreakable commitment to survive at all costs.”

Great innovation comes from working with your fear, making it an ally rather than an enemy. View it a helpful adrenaline rush.

6. They Don’t Wait for Things to Break

You’ve heard the adage, “Why fix it if it ain’t broke?” Great innovators don’t wait for things to break, they’re constantly fixing and iterating. The key to staying ahead and being a pioneer is to live by the mantra, “It can always be better.”

Rather than wait for a problem and then provide a solution, great innovators find ways to ensure the problem will never even exist.

7. They Understand the Creative Process

Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, Implementation. Those are the four classic stages of the creative process. One of the most crucial stages, just before the “eureka” moment, is “incubation.” Great innovators have always found novel ways to nurture this stage of creativity, like taking long showers, going for a walk in nature, doing yoga headstands, etc.

Incubation is the unconscious process of synthesizing the information you encountered through your conscious work. The intentional detachment results in a “marinating” of ideas and then solutions coming “out of the blue.”

8. They Pursue Many Streams

Elon Musk has Tesla and Solar City. Mark Cuban has too many to name, on top of the Mavericks. It’s more than only maximizing income, a hallmark of great innovators are nurturing many interests. Like the creative process, alternative interests and ventures overlap and feed off of each other.

Giving yourself opportunities to pursue multiple projects not only breaks the psychological bottleneck of pursuing one single venture, it expands your knowledge and business acumen.

9. They Possess a Healthy Arrogance

It may come across as arrogance, but great innovators are very confident. It’s not just good self-esteem, there’s a practical use. When Gallup

A key part of innovation is implementation. It’s not being the first to come up with the idea, but having the boldness to be the first to produce it. A healthy arrogance will give you the boldness to take action.

10. They Embrace Paradoxical Thinking

Great innovators do not see the world in black and white. While many people come to “either/or” conclusions, they strive to see “both/and” inferences. There was a time when cell phones only made calls and music devices only played music — it was “either/or” — but innovators overlooked conventional boundaries.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great American novelist, said it best, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

P.S. Do you want to innovative the way you think, and upgrade your life?

Becoming successful is all about tapping into your unique strengths, aligning with your vision, and executing with intention. Vishen Lakhiani’s transformational course, Consciousness Engineering

1. Do you agree that welcoming fear, you get the benefit of what being afraid brings?

2. Has fear turned into success in your life? please share about your experience.

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Please let me know how you like about the topics!

[John Park]

These articles are useful for us. Thanks Lisa
Do you agree life is the best school?  Yes, I totally agree