Formula(s) For A Successful Career

The first thing that you must realize and come to terms with is that there is/are NO FORMULA(S) for success or to have a successful career... and, anyone that proposes otherwise is so full of it, that their eyes are turning brown.

Will you have a successful career, if you emulated the behavior of:

• Bill Gates
• Warren Buffett
• Bill Clinton
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• John F. Kennedy
• Mother Theresa
• Jesus Christ

And, the answer is NO... and, the answer would remain NO regardless of whose name you added to that list.

Why?

Because you are not them

You are not experiencing their circumstances

Your DNA structure is slightly different

And yet, I read article after article after article from well experienced and well educated authors, telling the reader that if you do this or if you do that, there is a higher probability that you will be success than there is if you not follow their advice and/or steps... and mathematically, the odds are no doubt in your favor, but there are more odds working against you.

There are thousands perhaps millions of very gifted writers in the world today and yet only a handful of these writers are published and are earning a living at writing. Why?

And, what if I told you that all these thousands perhaps millions of gifted writers read and followed the advice of published authors indicating that this is what needs to be done in order to be successful and still no success came. Why not?

Would you be surprised if I told you that all the NASCAR drivers read the same book about what they needed to do in order to have a winning season and yet only one NASCAR driver had a winning season from the standpoint of being #1. Why do you think that happened?

I could tell you the same thing about professional sports and yet only one team will emerge victorious even though all players and all coaches read the same book that gave the same advice as to have to have a winning season. How is this even possible?

It should be painfully obvious that one cannot follow a recipe and be successful, nor can one emulate the behavior of successful people and expect the same results that they achieved.

Let's take Bill Gates for instance and for those who do not know him, he is the owner/creator of Microsoft... or, was he really... other than title. Bill Gates was attending Harvard when he read an article in some magazine whose name escapes me and shortly thereafter dropped out of Harvard. So, right there, in order to be like Bill Gates, one must first have the grades and intelligence to be accepted to Harvard and one must have the insight to see an article that would prompt one to drop out of College, and then one must have the financial resources to pursue this unknown idea...

How are you going to emulate that... Jack?

Next Bill Gates hooked up with Steve Jobs... and, how many Steve Jobs do you think are running around the world today?

Next, the date was sometime between 1970 and 1975 (when Microsoft was founded) and how would one ever replicate the dynamics of culture and technology during those years?

Next Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were able to make contact with IBM who gave them computer software where they (these Engineers from IBM) did not know what to do with it. Ok, now this point is critical... how often in one's lifetime do you think this kinda shit is gonna happen?

Next Bill Gates stole the computer software that Steve Jobs had perfected and called it Windows and formed a company called Microsoft to sell the software with absolutely no idea that it would ever catch on.

So, now we have the wealthiest man in the world and if we were to emulate his behavior... because Bill did this and Bill did that, then, the odds are we are going to be successful because Bill Gates was/is successful...

Do you have any idea how silly stupid that notion really is... do ya?

Ok, forget Bill Gates... let's copy Warren Buffett or Sam Walton or Sonny Liston or Jim Morrison or Bono... since they are all successful and I am sure that they will be glad to give you a list of the 10 things they did to get where they are today; and, if you were to emulate each and every one of them 110%, you would not be much better off after wards than you were before.

My brother is wealthy but he has 3 degrees from Harvard.

He asked 10 of his classmates form $10 million each to create an investment war chest.

He is relentless in his pursuits.

He spends countless hours doing research.

He is void of emotions.

He discovered after graduation that others were just as smart as he was and did not attend Harvard.

He treats family and friends as if they were business deals.

He does not mind being underhanded in business deals.

He strongly believes that LUCK favors the PREPARED.

So, would you like to emulate his behavior and see if that will make you financially successful as well?

Or perhaps, you would like to emulate some of the Southern Families who made their millions because of slavery whose descendants lead respectable lives today... Or, maybe the Kennedy family who got their first few millions by illegally transporting Rum out of the Caribbean to the US and did so at a time when there was no Coast Guard patrolling the Atlantic Coastline of the US, so maybe that one would be a tad difficult to replicate today... unless it dealt with smuggling drugs.

During the Watergate Hearings, Senator Sam Irvin from North Carolina said all wealthy people are a little oily which is how they got there. Now, if that is in fact true, then how would one emulate that particular aspect of behavior and personality?