Sunday, April 18, 2010

Summary of The Video


The video is talking about what leads to success. This lecture presented 7 years ago for a high school students for 2 hours long. The idea of this lecture came when the speaker was going to TED, one high school students, which was sitting next to him in air plane and was from really poor family, asked him that how she could be successful in her life. He did not have the answer for her question. Since then, there has been 7 years of research and 500 interviews about what leads to success. The speaker gives 8 points that cause to be a successful person.
Passion is the first one mention in the video. A person should do something for love not for money as Freeman Thomas said, “I’m driven by my passion.” I totally agree because creativity is inspired by passion. Also, as the speaker mentions that if you do it for love the money comes anyway.

Work, work and work. People can’t reach their dream without working. But the funny thing is that if people love their works, they will see it as a fun. According to Rupent Murdoch, “It’s all hard work. Nothing comes easily but I have a lot of fun.”

The next one is a person should be good at what he or she wants. It is so easy, it just practice, practice and practice. This is completely true in everything in our life such as driving a car needs practice lots before being good at it.

Focusing on one thing is also a key to be successful. However, it is right to focus in on thing, but people should also have an overview of what going on around them which has an effect in the work that has been focused on.

Everyone and everybody needs push themselves and needs someone or somebody to push them. David Gallo stated, “Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you gatta push, push, push.”

Sherwin Nuland said, “ It was a privilege to serve as a doctor.” So serve others is really important to be successful since you can be excellent at it when you serve others. Also, to be millionaire, you needs to serve others something value to get money instead, according to the speaker.

People should be creative ideas. There are several things person can do to get ideas. Listening to others and observing is the best way to get ideas. In addition, people ought to be curious about every thing that related to their field and ask questions as mush as you can. Moreover, while you are solving problem, an idea could come up, and, as well, makes connections, you would need these connections someday and they will bring ideas.

The last key and I believe is the most important one to be successful is persist. Persist in something comes from hard work and love it leads to hard work. A hard work causes a person to be good at it and when you are good at it that means you are focusing on it. In that time, you are also pushing yourself and all these cause the ideas come up by itself. Absolutely, you are serving others directed or indicted if you are doing the 7th element. Therefore, I think all these keys cannot be separated from each other; otherwise, the person will not reach to success.

please guys, your comments it's important for poor guy like me lol :)

Good Luck ...

3 comments:

Erica said...

i agree with u... but all of the 8 points are all very important. for success we can't loose any of them

Fion said...

your last paragraph is very interesting!you put all the reasons together, and connect each other! I think you must learned much from this video!I hope you will get your achievement from doing this!:)

Alaa said...

Hi Mohammed
I agree with u that all of these factors are important. as you said,you are interested in persistance that belive it is the most important one. But,For me, I think that passion and persistance are important to be succeful and I explained why? in my blog so you can writ your comment there.
See you