Dream big and smile.

Few weeks ago I had a discussion about success with two of my co-workers. After our discussion, I created a mk campaing to test some results, which is alive somewhere online now. Before I start it, I googled about success to see if there were any results related to the psychology of success and if it was what everyone is really looking in life.

For the context of this post, I want to add a coffee with a friend, who brought a project that she started at Uni, three years ago. Her research asked the three most important things that people wished have known when they were young. After our coffee, I thought why did they wish to know those things before? Maybe because they think they would have taken better decisions. Better decisions to succeed or to what?

Firstly, I want to share a video from Richard St. John, who did a nice job to put his core message about success into less than 4 minutes.

Then, I want to share one of my favorite quotes: “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”

Success is the art of achieving mastery in whatever you decide to do. To succeed first you need to love what you do, then you can work, focus, persist, serve, have ideas, be good, push and be passionate, but first of all, you need to love what you do, much more than the love to succeed.

There was another video and few steps to the process of achieving mastery, from Benedict T. Casnocha, posted it on How to Draw an Owl, which I want to include in this post.

Steps to the process of achieving mastery:

1. Start
2. Keep going.
3. You think you’re starting to get the hang of it.
4. You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery.
5. Keep going.
6. Keep going.
7. You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got it now.
8. You don’t.
9. Keep going.
10. You ask for someone else’s opinion–their response is standoffish, though polite.
11. Depression.
12. Keep going.
13. Keep going.
14. You ask someone else’s opinion–their response is favorable.
15. They have no idea what they’re talking about.
16. Keep going.
17. You feel semi-kinda favorable and maybe even a little proud of what you can do now.
18. Self-loathing chastisement.
19. Depression
20. Keep going.
21. You ask someone else’s opinion–they respond quite favorably.
22. They’re still wrong.
23. Depression.
24. Keep going though you can’t possibly imagine why.
25. Become restless.
26. Receive some measure of praise from a trustworthy opinion.
27. They’re still fucking wrong (Right?)
28. Keep going just because there’s nothing else to do.
29. Mastery arrives, you mistake it for a gust of wind.
30. Keep. Fucking. Going.

Few years ago, I decided I wanted to achieve mastery with Internet, because I knew it will be transferable to whatever I wanted to do in the future, however I always knew that one day, when I feel I got to my first big pick, I´ll be happy to start again in something different, somewhere where my learning curve is going to be in the bottom again. Currently, there is a still a lot to keep going.