9 Attributes of Successful People....
No one likes to admit failure. The word represents defeat, disappointment and imperfection.
Rick Newman, the chief business correspondent at U.S. News and World Report, studied 12 succesful, well-known people from various professions and determined that they all had one trait in common: failure.
These individuals suffered professional rejection, career setbacks and sometimes a debilitating blow to their self-confidence, but they still all managed to rise above the challenges to attain greater success than they had ever imagined. Newman calls these individuals “rebounders” and he shares their struggles, hardships and remarkable comeback in his new book, “Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success.”
In an interview witht Daily Ticker, Newman says readers of the book should view setbacks as a part of a process, not defeat. He notes that eminent business leaders and scholars acknowledge that failure cannot be avoided in life and often failure is what makes someone stronger and better able to deal with adversity and unwelcome detours.
Here are Newman's nine key attributes of a “rebounder”:
1. They accept failure (and can recognize their own mistakes).
2. They compartmentalize their emotions (they don't internalize bad feelings).
3. They have a bias toward action (responding aggressively to a challenge).
4. They change their minds sometimes (the need to discard old thinking and reprogram a dream).
5. They prepare for things to go wrong (rebounders are not necessarily optimists).
6. They're comfortable with discomfort (they're willing to accept inconveniences as long as it leads them closer to an important goal).
7. They're willing to wait (overnight success is deceptively unTrue).
8. They have heroes (rebounders set and meet higher standards when inspired by others).
9. They have more than passion (success requires drive, too).
Newman says that recovering from failure can be emotionally grueling, but he adds that failure teaches you important things that can “help you tremendously in the future.”