Travis Bradberry, a co-author of the best-selling book of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and the co-founder of TalentSmart 16, published an article in Enterpreneur.com, which talks about Kevin Kruse, an entrepreneur, popular keynote speaker and the bestselling co-author of We, recently interviewed over two hundred successful people, including olympians, billionaires and a number of accomplished entrepreneurs. In Kruse’s finding, he shares fourteen things successful people do every day in Enterpreneur.com, by comparing his findings with Median’s brain rules and Grant’s ideas, some of them are consistent, but some of them are not.
Successful People’s Habits Reflect Certain Brain Rules
There are three rules that are very interesting and relate to everyone’s life in the book of Brain Rules, which are exercise, attention and memory. While reading Kruse’s article, these three topics have been mentioned as well. Definitely, no one has the same brain, but the successful people’s habits shows that some of their brain routes are similar. …show more content…
Median thinks Individuals’ cognitive ability bonded with physical fitness; Kruse’s single biggest surprise while interviewing was the majority of them wanted to share their morning ritual, and certainly there are variety of habits, but exercise sits in the list and is one of the commonest habits of successful people.
Jennifer Cohen, the CEO and founder of No Gym Required, published an article “Exercise Is One Thing Most Successful People Do Everyday” in 2016 at Enterpreneur.com, apparently she agrees to Median and Kruse’s idea
too.
On current job market, companies prefer multi-task players, almost in all job advertisements, multi-tasking has been highlighted to one of necessary skills. It is impossible that employees could focus one single task for hours without interrupt at work. By contrast, in theory, Median claims that multi-tasking is a myth as the brain could only focus on one thing. Meantime, according to one of Kruse’s findings, successful people focus on only one thing, they know what their most important thing and work on it every morning without interruptions.
As we all know that it is normal and easy to forgetting things and ideas, Median introduces that our brain could memorise things by repetition. Writing down ideas in notebook is a way to repeat and memorise the thoughts, which is one of the habits that successful people have.
Successful People VS. Originals
If comparing Grant’s study and Kruse’s finding, it is not hard to find inconsistence when talking about procrastination. According to Kruse, successful people focus on minutes, rather than hours, they fully use 1,440 minutes in every day and master their lives by minutes. Kruse also gets to know that successful people think to-do list is not the the best option to plan, they trend to schedule events in calendar, work and live with calendar is what they usually do. For to do list, unfinished tasks stay in people’s mind and will bring stress. Because it is hard to trust your future self, successful people figure out that they could find a solution now to make their future selves to do right things. These habits are very high efficiency and against one of Grant’s ideas, Grant believes when originals procrastinate, they are thinking and generate creative ideas. Successful people must insist that procrastination waste precious their time, but we cannot say successful people do not need time to think or experiment their ideas; on the other hand, we cannot tell all originals are not successful people as originals drive creativity and change in the world according to Grant.