Success Tips From 10 Great Personalities Of All Times
Business men, artists, singers, fathers, mothers, children, sinners or saints, we all need a little inspiration in life. It’s time to pay close attention to the following Success Tips From 10 Great Personalities Of All Times.
Role models and inspiring personalities are those people that lived a life that appeals to you and make it easier for you to keep on going when things start crushing in front of you.
Good times or bad times, it is recommended you have a person you can look up to, a person which life in itself is a lesson.
Thorough times, many great minds have made themselves noticed and improved the world with their work, ideas and actions.
You may call them geniuses, prodigies or whatever you like, what matters is that their words can offer us precious insights on how to live an amazing life:
10Albert Einstein – Take matters into your own hands
Taking into consideration the way in which the world functions at the moment, this may be one of the best advices we ever received. There is no need for introductions when it comes to Einstein, but maybe it is worth to take a moment to reflect on how amazing he was.
He was not just a mathematician and revolutionary scientist, but also a great thinker. Maybe his quotes are some of the most popular, but I want to take a look at a particular one.
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
If we would apply that today, things will be lots easier. I see it this way: if something bothers you, instead of complaining, why don’t you take action.
The most heard excuse is that it is a matter too big for a person to make a chance. Oh, that is so wrong! You can do so many things, you can start conversations, get in touch with people that feel the same way you do and try to move things in the directions you want.
You know, solutions aren’t just going to come your way if you don’t start searching for them.
9Soren Kierkegaard – Attitude is a key factor
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher born in 1813. You most definitely know him if you love writings about morality, ethics, psychology and the philosophy of religion.
In his work he highlights the importance of personal choice and commitment.
He basically puts into fancier words the common saying: “You are what you think.”
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
So, yes, this is not just some random hippie stuff. It is scientifically proven that staying positive and never losing faith in our dreams helps us on our road to success.
What does this mean? Always keep in mind your goals, write them down, share them with friends and double your action with a positive attitude.
If every step of the way you are being dominated by the fear of failing, guess what, that’s exactly what’s going to happen!
8Albert Camus – Freedom in an important aspect
If there is something I most believe it, that is freedom. Many people don’t see it, even though it is so obvious and logical. How are you going to do and say what you want if you are constantly constrained by something?
Albert Camus was a French author, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner. His philosophy is known as absurdism and he has been classified as an existentialist, although he repeatedly stated that he doesn’t consider himself as one.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
He had many thoughts on freedom and how sometimes it takes an act of rebellion if you want to live the life you want. Today, not many of us can truly say that they are free, but those that are willing to take that risk will thank themselves later.
7Carl Jung – Try to understand the people around you
Carl Gustav Jung, the father of analytical psychology has captivating writings on extraversion and introversion, archetypes and the collective unconscious.
He is actually the one that created these concepts, including the fascinating subject of synchronicity. If you are interested by this matter, he has a whole book on it and I highly recommend you read it .
His words that I chosen to discuss here, are probably one of the most enlightening statements ever said about the human being. He believes that what we find annoying in other persons has actually a lot to do with our personality.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.”
It’s important to understand that all people we come in contact with are different and in order to create great things we need to learn how to work with every one of them.
So, the next time you are irritated by what someone said or did, ask yourself why is that. Maybe at an unconscious level, you are also doing something similar.
The human mind doesn’t do anything random!
6Sigmund Freud – Be prepared to take responsibility
There is no need in presenting Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, as his work on the unconscious; dreams and Oedipus complex are already famous.
And we can’t ignore the words of a man that has dedicated his whole life to the understanding of the human mind. And so, I bring again the matter of freedom. We already said how important it is and I believe you all wish to obtain it.
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
But are you really willing to take all the risks, to go into the unknown? Having the liberty of doing anything you want involves lots of work. Until you get there, you have to work harder than average, to risk it, to fail and being strong again to start again if so.
Are you willing to take responsibility over your own life? Be that one out of a million.
5Pablo Picasso – Stand out of the crowd
This great painter gives us a precious insight on the importance of originality and following your vision.
Everyone dreams of making money, being successful and doing that right now and right here.
I don’t want to offend anyone but it appears to me that it doesn’t really matter to them how they do it as long as it happens. And that’s how someone without vision thinks like.
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Of course, it may be difficult to cope with the fact that what you wish for is a little more different – and maybe harder to achieve – when everyone else go to their average jobs, do their normal stuff and think their normal things.
But you have to remember that a visionary is someone that connects two dots that no one else ever thought of putting together.
4Steve Jobs – Find your passion and follow it no matter what
Steve Jobs did wonderful things, but that doesn’t come just like that. He started everything from scratch in his father’s garage when he was 20. Assuming you know his story, I won’t repeat it.
Do you realize how hard it is to have a dream and start everything from zero? You need lots of work, dedications, staying away from other people discouraging opinions and most important, motivation.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
And he talked plenty of times about finding what you love and then following your dream, believing in it and putting all your energy into its accomplishment.
3Salvador Dali – Don’t limit yourself
If I were to choose a favorite example of a person that stand out of the crowd and wasn’t afraid to be different, that would be Dali.
He believed that his surrealist works – considered strange by many- were destroying anything that could limit his vision, anything that could stand in the way of expressing his creativity.
So maybe we need to look at life through surrealist glasses and see that it is not just what we normally see, there is much room to create anything you want, to be anything you want.
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
Next time you find an excuse that is keeping you from becoming the person you want to be, maybe you should reflect on that.
No one was painting strange melting pocket watches before Dali came in, but that didn’t stop him for creating what he had in mind.
2Leonardo da Vinci – Never stop learning
There are not enough words in the dictionary to describe what an amazing mind Leonardo da Vinci had. He is the creator of some of the most mysterious and interesting paintings, significant inventions and many insights on why nature is the way it is.
Just by remembering all the areas that he was interested in, brings to our attention the fact that he had a unquenchable curiosity, his major trait of personality.
We should learn from da Vinci that as long as we are alive, we should be learning. If you haven’t achieved the success you wish for, it means you still have to learn things in order to improve your abilities.
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
The important thing is that nothing is impossible as long as you constantly feed your mind with new valuable information, you think of solutions and you test them. One day you will create something amazing and you will be fascinated of how much you learned along the way.
Leonardo was fascinated by flying- which was a crazy thing to wish for at that moment- and he kept learning, trying and trying until he invented the parachute. Talk about attitude!
1Charles Bukowski – Live a little!
All of these are precious advice, but all will be in vein if you don’t really live your life and enjoy every step of the way! That’s why the No. 1 tip I have for you comes from Bukowski, the loved by some, condemned by others author.
If I were to summarize all the traits of his personality into just one phrase, I would go for one quote of his book, Factotum: “Baby, I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
And he was indeed. Recognition came late in his life, but he always knew how to make fun of every bad thing that happened to him and never took life too serious.
He knew that, at the end of the day what matters is to live life to its fullest and to express your creativity. His thoughts on the creative act and what it means to be a writer are truly inspiring.
“What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.”
I found no better way to end this, but with a reading of one of Bukowski’s poems, that I hope will inspire and motivate you to set free the artist inside you.
Which one of them appeals most to you?
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