Mary Abegaile S Jose

TED TALK- Richard St. John's 8 secrets to success 00:12 This is really a two-hour presentation I give to Highschool students cut down to three minutes. It all started one day on the plane on my way to TED 7 years ago. And on a seat next to me a Highschool student, a teenager and she came from a really poor family, and she wanted to make something of her life and she asked me a really simple question - “what leads to success?” And I felt really badly because I couldn't give her a good answer. 00:37 So i get off the plane, and I come to TED. And I think geez, I am in a middle of the room with successful people! So why don't I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass them on to kids? So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I am going to tell you what really leads to success and makes TEDsters tick. 00:57 And the first thing is Passion. Freeman Thomas says, “I am driven by my passion." TEDsters do it for love - they don't do it for money. 01:05 Carol Coletta says, “I will pay someone to do what I do.” The interesting thing is when you do it for love, the money comes anyway. 01:12 Rupert Murdoch says, “It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun.” Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes! 01:22 (audience laugh) 01:23 TEDsters do have fun working and they work hard! I figured they are not workaholics, they are workafrolics. 01:29 (audience laugh) 01:30 Good! 01:31 (audience applause) 01:32 Alex Garden says, '” To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it.” There is no magic; it's practice, practice, practice. 01:40 And it’s Focus. Norman Jewison said to me, “I think it all has to do with focusing yourself to one thing.” 01:46 And Push! David Gallo said,  “Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you gotta push, push, push.” You got to Push Shyness and Self-doubt. 01:55 Goldie Hawn says, "I always had self-doubts. I wasn’t good enough; I wasn’t smart enough. I didn’t think I’d make it.” 02:02 Now it's not always easy to push yourself, that is why they invented mothers. 02:06 (audience laugh) 02:07 (applause) Frank Gehry said to me “My mother pushed me.” 02:13 (audience laugh) 02:14 Serve! Sherwin Nuland said 'It was a privelege to serve as a Doctor.' 02:20 A lot of kids tell me they want to be millionaires. So I say to them, “okay, well you can't serve yourself, you have to serve others something of value. Because that's the way people really get rich. 02:31 Ideas! Tedster Bill Gates said “I had an idea-founding the first micro computer software company.” I'd say it was a pretty good idea- there is no magic to creativity and coming up with ideas, it is just doing some very simple things, and I give lots of evidence. 02:47 Persist! Joe Kraus says Persist. 'Persistence is the number one reason for our success. You got to persist through failure, you got to persist through crap which of course means Criticism, Rejection, Assholes, and Pressure. 02:50 So the big A, the answer to this question is simple - pay for 4,000 bucks and come to TED. 02:56 (audience laugh) 02:57 Failing that, do the 8 things and trust me these are the big eight things that lead to success. 03:03 Thank you TEDsters for all your interviews! 03:06 (audience applause)