8 Things The World's Most Successful People All Have In Common

8 Things The World's Most Successful People All Have In Common
FILE - This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Oprah Winfrey speaking at the 45th NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, Calif. Winfrey will visit eight cities this fall for a two-day arena event called âOprahâs The Life You Want Weekend.â Winfrey will go on stage on a Friday night in each city, then the next day a circle of personalities she has featured on OWN and her talk show over the years will join in. Organizers said Wednesday, March 26, 2014, that the first stop will be in Atlanta the first weekend of September. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Oprah Winfrey speaking at the 45th NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, Calif. Winfrey will visit eight cities this fall for a two-day arena event called âOprahâs The Life You Want Weekend.â Winfrey will go on stage on a Friday night in each city, then the next day a circle of personalities she has featured on OWN and her talk show over the years will join in. Organizers said Wednesday, March 26, 2014, that the first stop will be in Atlanta the first weekend of September. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

I've posted a lot about the strategies of very successful people: artists, scientists, business leaders…

Looking back, what patterns do we see?

Busy, busyDaily Rituals: How Artists Work, examines the work habits of over 150 of the greatest writers, artists, and scientists.

What did they all have in common? A relentless pace of work.

"Sooner or later," Pritchett writes, "the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing." [Daily Rituals: How Artists Work]

What did Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer find when he looked at high achievers like LBJ and Robert Moses?

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