This is the No. 1 thing successful people have in common
It enabled every major step in my career
It’s easy to think that highly successful people have some hidden advantage that sets them apart from the rest of us. In fact, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers does provide several examples of wildly successful people who did have non-obvious advantages. They weren’t just smart, talented, and driven, although that does help.
I’m going to ignore both the obvious and hidden advantages that people like Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, and Elon Musk have (or had) that propelled their career success. The number one thing that the most successful people have in common is easily accessible to you, me, and absolutely everyone:
They don’t ask for permission
By “successful people” I don’t mean those who are featured on the front page of Time, Forbes, Rolling Stone, or Sports Illustrated. You know how I feel about that. I mean everyday people who are living well and living life on their own terms. That is something we all should aspire to achieve.
Some of the successful people I have in mind have had great success in their careers working for a company. Some have founded their own companies. Some are entrepreneurs spending their days as they wish. But, as I’ve…
