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principles for success an ultra mini-series adventure in 30
minutes and in eight episodes episode 1 the call to adventure before we begin let me just establish the fact that I
don't know how much relative to what I need to know whatever success I’ve had in life has more
to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know that I should be telling other people what
to do sounds kind of presumptuous to me but I’m going to do it because I believe
that the principles that have made me successful could help others achieve
their own goals I’m now at a stage in my own life in which
it is much more important to me to pass along what I’ve learned about how to be
successful than to seek more success for myself What you choose to do with these
principles is up to you You have to be an independent thinker
because only you can develop your own principles based on your own values This brings me to my first and most
fundamental principles which is that you need to think for yourself about what
is true So let’s get started Early on I discovered I needed principles Principles are smart ways for handing
things that happen over and over again in similar situations There are principles for everything From skiing to parenting to cooking and so
on I’m going to share some of my most
important overarching life principles that influence how we approach everything I didn’t start out with principles I acquired them over a lifetime of
experiences mostly from making mistakes and reflecting on them My life principles are simple but they’re
not complete I still struggle to make the best
decisions and I still make mistakes and learn new principles all the time This is the reality At the beginning I needed to escape the conventions
that surrounded me which meant that I needed to think for myself Unless you want to have a life that is
directed by others You need to decide for yourself what to do And you need to have the courage to do it But I didn’t know that at first I only learned that from going on my
adventure Looking back on my own journey I now see the time is like a river that
carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make
decisions We can’t stop our movement down this river And we can’t avoid the encounters We can only approach them in the best
possible way In your lifetime you will face millions of
decisions The quality of your decisions will
determine the quality of your life Over the course of my lifetime The most valuable things I’ve learned were
the result of mistakes I reflected on to help from principles So I wouldn’t make the same mistakes again These principles took me from being a very
ordinary middle-class kid from Long
Island to becoming very successful as judged by conventional measures They also gave me the meaningful work and
meaningful relationships that I value even more than these conventional
successes People often ask me how I did it I can assure you it wasn’t because of my
uniqueness as a person It was the result of a unique approach to
life I believe almost anybody can adopt It starts with embracing reality and
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