The real 8 secrets of success by Richard St. John

While surfing the web looking for something useful to read I stumbled upon a really great video by Richard St. John.

He was inspired to find these principles during a flight, when a high school student asked him how to be successful and he couldn’t think of any good answer to that question.

Unlike other secrets of success that I’ve read or found in other books, I find these eight to be very realistic.

Who is Richard St. John?

St. John describes himself as an average guy who found success doing what he loved. He spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success.

He has found success through his marketing company, the St. John Group, which boasted clients like Nortel and BlackBerry/Research in Motion. But he couldn’t get away from the question: Why him? He thinks of himself as an average guy, not talented at school, not terribly handsome or particularly lucky. So he spent more than a decade interviewing 500 people he defines as successful.

The decade of interviews resulted in a book (Spike’s Guide to Success: Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and RICH) which has created even more avenues for success for St. John as a motivational speaker and talk-show star.

Back to the video. It’s a 3-minute slideshow containing the things that St. John belives to be the real secrets of success. Among them are persistence, ideas, pushy mothers help and work.

Enjoy the video and remember to apply these principles. Wisdom without action is nothing.