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Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

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Uploaded on Jan 6, 2007

http://www.ted.com Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart, or are they just lucky? Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute presentation on the real secrets of success.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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  • deejayMEBBYromeo

    2:19 lol, epic!

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  • Maureen Rhodin

    Loved this video...spoke to everything I'd been taught and believe. But then I thought: you don't need 8 things...you just need one: know yourself--your passions, your place in the world, what you have to give to others, be authentic. When you can be who you are, to me that's success!

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  • William Burnell

    Great teps to success. Thanks for this video

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  • benja303

    HUH? Why was a poor high school student on the same plane with an extremely rich guy?

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  • Cam S

    Amen sistaaa :p

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  • hanna jones

    Really Helpful :D

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  • Mohit Kapoor

    hey what about money to survive through all the above 8

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  • metallicaloverss

    you cant be successful with Mac laptop and ifollow products. you are just a follower bitch

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  • Ravi Teja

    WOW

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