5 things successful people have in common

Daniel Kim
3 min readOct 14, 2021

1. Successful people are not afraid to fail(Growth mindset)

Most successful people welcome their failures because they could learn from their failures, and then learn from their mistakes. Also, this way of thinking is called a growth mindset, growth mindset is the way of thinking that you could improve yourself by hard-working and effort, and if they fail, it’s okay because you can learn from the failures. So after many failures, they became successful, I have a great example, now everyone knows what it is: SpaceX, SpaceX had many failure launches, but after many failures, they learned from the mistake, learned from the mistakes, and applied to the future launches, so they succeed at many launches after failures. Also, another phrase came to me “Failure is the mother of success”. So don’t be afraid to fail.

2. Successful people make a to-do list and a not-to-do list

Successful people make their own to-do lists and not-to-do list. It helps you make clear goals for a day, or week, or month. For example, person A and person B have the same works to do, and person A writes a to-do list, and person B doesn’t, person a will finish the work faster because writing a to-do list increases your productivity, and how efficiency. As though writing a to-do list is important, also writing a not-to-do list is important, there are many things that are distracting you away from your work, for example, phone, SNS, etc. if you write SNS on your not-to-do list it’ll also increase your productivity and efficiency. So try to write a to-do list and not-to-do list.

3. Successful people prioritize what they have to do

Successful people prioritize what they have to do. First, why let’s talk about why this is important. Prioritizing is important because you can do your work done earlier, and do the less important things after finishing number 1 work on the prioritized work. I have a great example here: you put big pebbles in a bowl, then smaller pebbles, then sand, then water, the main thing about this is that if you do it reversely if you put water, sand, small pebbles first you can’t put the big pebbles after the smaller thing, so you have to put the big pebbles first which means that first thing you have to do is number one thing on your prioritized list. So, make a prioritized list and do them first.

4. Successful people are passionate about what they’re doing

Successful people are passionate about what they’re doing. If you are passionate about what are you doing, that means you have an interest in what you do, so that leads to questioning and learning which means you get better at it, so most successful people are good at what they’re doing because they like what they’re doing which is they’re “passionate”. So, I think it would be great if we’re doing things we like, so that means we’re passionate about what we’re doing, so I could be successful.

5. Successful people set up their goals.

Successful people set up their goals. Similar to writing a to-do list, setting up goals helps you make a clear direction to your goals, it also helps you to achieve your goal easier and faster. For example, if you set up a goal to read 10 pages every day, it would be easier than doing it without goals. The main important thing about this is that you have to keep doing it if you don’t there is no point at all about doing this, so keep doing it. If you get used to set up goals, you now automatically doing it without thinking, so if you start that’s half of the process. So set up a goal, and go achieve it!

Summary

In this article, we talked about 5 things successful people have in common: not being afraid to fail, write a to-do list and a not-to-do list, prioritize your works, being passionate about what they’re doing, and setting up goals. I hope these 5 common things successful people have in common leads you to become a successful person in the world. So let's start doing it!!!

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Daniel Kim

Hello, I’m Daniel Kim. I write helpful tips about life.