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IYO, what is the #1 driver of professional success?

post #1 of 138
4/1/10 at 1:52pm
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what the title says
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post #2 of 138
4/1/10 at 2:00pm
Chicks.
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post #3 of 138
4/1/10 at 2:02pm
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Chicks.

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post #4 of 138
4/1/10 at 2:06pm
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what the title says

You reminiscent me much, of that poster ImageWiz .
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post #5 of 138
4/1/10 at 2:08pm
I think some of those are related.

For example hard work is often related to how you were brought up by parents, also luck has to do with people who help you at certain points.

If i had to say, itd be hard work + luck.
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post #6 of 138
4/1/10 at 2:17pm
Combination of parents/friends and luck.

Education, intelligence, and hard work are the tools, but if you can't get through the door, then your tools are useless.
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post #7 of 138
4/1/10 at 2:31pm
Hard work. I don't view luck as a direct driver, it plays a role in success no doubt, but not something I would use as an input, if that is not sufficiently confusing.
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post #8 of 138
4/1/10 at 2:38pm
I think that Parents play the biggest role because they have an impact on everything else on your list. I think it's important for parents to provide direction to their kids from an early age. With good parenting, hard work will (hopefully) come naturally. With that tendency will come good grades and a good education (assuming the requisite level of intelligence is there). Good schools open up useful networks and with a little luck and continued hard work you do well.
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post #9 of 138
4/1/10 at 3:07pm
Setting goals and persistence in reaching them.

Education, Intelligence and Hard Work are all useless if they're not focused towards some greater end.

Luck certainly plays a part, but is for the most part self-created. If you know what you're looking for, you'll recognize it when you see it.

Good parental influence can certainly help, but there's plenty of successful people who are there in spite of their upbringing (trying to escape a poor or abusive upbringing is a great motivator).
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post #10 of 138
4/1/10 at 3:12pm
Interpersonal skills by an order of magnitude.
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post #11 of 138
4/1/10 at 3:56pm
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Setting goals and persistence in reaching them.

Education, Intelligence and Hard Work are all useless if they're not focused towards some greater end.

Luck certainly plays a part, but is for the most part self-created. If you know what you're looking for, you'll recognize it when you see it.

Good parental influence can certainly help, but there's plenty of successful people who are there in spite of their upbringing (trying to escape a poor or abusive upbringing is a great motivator).

Those people are mostly outliers. While their achievements are commendable I don't think that focusing on them helps anyone because they are not the norm. It's usually a pretty remarkable person that actually extricates themselves out situations like that and turns into a what's generally accepted as a successful professional (or successful anything else for that matter).

I think people tend to focus on what they view as their own positive qualities and subconsciously want to take all the credit for their own success, but I think that good parenting far outweighs all the other things greg listed, because all of those things stem from good parenting that begins at a young age.

I think that some people despite bad or absent parenting eventually come around and make it, but as I already said, I think they are by far the exception, rather than the norm, even though we all know of a few tales like that.
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post #12 of 138
4/1/10 at 3:59pm
I say "maturity." The others are all important to varying degrees - if I had to pick one strictly off the list I think I'd say hard work - but I think maturity is the best term I can think of that captures all the proper attributes. Maturity does imply work ethic, which is very important. But it also implies an understanding of the big picture, some amount of empathy and understanding of interpersonal issues, and the ability to stay out of your own way. I know too many people who are intelligent, and who work hard, but lack the ability to deploy their own resources properly, or allow pettiness and emotions to keep them from making the right decisions for themselves. Maturity also implies a sense of personal financial responsibility that is a major freeing factor, allowing one to make clearer long-term decisions, and simply reduces stress and improves happiness, which I would say is part of success. Anyways, that's my rambling take.
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post #13 of 138
4/1/10 at 4:02pm
Bobby Allison.
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post #14 of 138
4/1/10 at 4:07pm
I would say some combo of personality/charisma and networking.

We all know people who have shot up the ranks knowing nothing just cause they had the right connections and hob nobbed with the right folks at their company.

If I could change one thing about me it - more than looks, intelligence - it would be just to naturally ooze charisma and personality.
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post #15 of 138
4/1/10 at 4:18pm
hard work.
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