8 Secrets of Success Revealed

I read a BBC article about Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) videos.  TED is about great people sharing great ideas.  I watched Hans Rosling’s one a while back about data visualisation with the context of world development (see link).  Anyway, I started watching a few of them (some are very good ones) and one video intrigued me enough to write this blog post.  It is a 3 minute video called Richard St. John investigated what leads to success by interviewing 500 successful people at TED over 7 years.  It intrigued me because I am developing my own philosophy of what leads to success (see link).  I also wanted to know how many of the 8 secrets I am currently following.  Anyway, the 8 are seen below:

I am explicitly following two secrets of success: and .  I do believe you have be about what you are doing (see link).  Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”  This quote really inspired me into action towards finding a career that matched my passions.  I am also a big believer of hard and the virtue of practice (probably started here).  Numerous experiences has taught me that you have to put in the hours to become at anything.  is one of the 8 secrets of success but I would consider it as a by-product of work.  A definite weakness is push.  In a number of situations, I do get riddled with self-doubt which can be debilitating at times.  That is something I need to improve.  

So how many of the 8 secrets do you follow?