So we talked about the four diamonds, the capabilities that are coming from
within you that you can access by looking into your past,
looking into your personality and so on.
I want to talk now about two habits that people who you might
define as successful tend to have.
Now, we have to be careful in this course about using the word success.
So I just want to make sure that you know where I'm coming from.
By successful people, I mean people who have somehow integrated these two
dimensions, the outer life of career, achievement,
and whatever is going on in the social world, and
the inner life of personal fulfillment and happiness and satisfaction.
So how are the balances struck?
I think successful people have somehow managed to put the two together.
One habit that people who have this combination going for them tend to have
is that they are spontaneously excited,
enthusiastic, and they are people who tend to learn from the mistakes they make.
Because they're getting the energy from the inner life
to apply it to the outer life, when they meet an obstacle,
the energy tends to power them through the barrier, the mistake, the failure.
And they can get up and brush themselves off and keep going because
they are pursuing a source of satisfaction that intrinsically motivates them.
So if you think of a kid, a very small child.
We have two sons, and I remember when the first one was born and
was just beginning to crawl and then didn't walk and just crawled.
And I remember thinking to myself, I had this terrible fear that
they were going to be the first child who couldn't ever learn to walk.
Because he just kept crawling.
And then one day he got up and sort of held himself up.
And then he stumbled across and fell on his face and got up again and
started walking some more.
And the whole excitement that a child has when they're learning to walk,
even though it means that they end up falling down and
ending up getting banged around a little bit.
They have that intrinsic excitement about this autonomy that they're experiencing,
the mobility that they are experiencing, and the huge
expanse of what they can explore when they can walk is what I'm talking about.
So successful people have this
inner energy that's helping power their outer achievements.
And it means that they can be resilient, and that they are in learning mode.
So, that's habit number one,
is that spontaneous excitement about what it is that you're doing.
Habit number two is the Willingness to be Dissatisfied.