Marco Rafael Afuang

Ted Talk-Richard St. John’s 8 Secrets of Success This is really a 2 Hour presentation I give to high school students cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane on the way to Ted’s seven years ago. And in a seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family and she wanted to make something of her life. And she asked a simple little question, she said what leads to success? And I felt really badly because I couldn’t give her a good answer. So, I get off the plane and I come to Ted, and I think Geez! I’m in the middle of a room with successful people, so I’m what I’m to ask them what helped them succeed and pass it on to kids. So here we are, 7 years, 500 interviews later and I’m going to tell you what really leads to success and makes Ted just tick. And the first thing is Passion. Freeman Thomas says I’m driven by my passion. Ted’s just do it for love, they don’t do it for money. Carol Colletta says I would pay someone to do what I do, the interesting thing is if you do it for love, the money comes anyway! Work, Rupert Murdoch says for me it’s all hard work, nothing comes easily, but I have a lot of fun! Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes! Tedsters do have fun working and they work hard. I figured they’re not workaholics, they’re workafrolics! Good, Alex Garden says to be successful, put your nose down to something and get damn good at it. There’s no magic, It’s practice, practice, practice! Focus, Norman Jewison said to me it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing! And Push, David Gallo says push yourself. Physically, mentally you got to push, push, push! You got to put some Shyness and Self-doubt, Goldie Hawn says I always had self-doubt! I wasn’t good enough, I wasn’t smart enough. I didn’t think I’d make it! Now, it’s not always easy to push yourself and that’s why they invented Mothers! (Laughter) Frank Gehry said to me, my mother pushed me! Serve, Sherwin Nuland says it was a privilege to serve as a doctor! A lot of kids tell me they want to be millionaires, and the first thing I say to them is okay, well you can’t serve yourself, you got to serve others something of value because that’s the way people really get rich. Ideas, Tedster Bill Gates says I had an Idea, founding the first micro-computer software company. I’d say it was a pretty good idea. And there is no magic to creativity and coming up with ideas, it’s just doing some very simple things. And I give lots of evidence. Persist, Joe Krauss says persistence is the number one reason for our success. You got to persist to failure, you got to persist to CRAP, which of course means Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure. (Laughter) So the big Ad, the answer to this question is simple, pay 4000 bucks and come to TED. (Laughter) Or failing that, do the 8 things and trust me, these are the big 8 things that leads to success. Thank you Tedsters for all your interviews! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN79-Tv5GHY