Success doesn't require doing extraordinary things.

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Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of Walk with Johan. And today, we are going to talk about success, how to succeed.

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As I was telling you, we are going to talk about success. So be careful, success is a very personal term, which you have to define for yourself. Success will not have the same meaning for you as it has for me. President Emmanuel Macron has a different definition of success than me or you or anyone else, than any other personality or person.

For me, success is being free, being able kuwait whatsapp number data to enjoy my family, being able to enjoy what I love, reading, walking, writing, and helping people and contributing to their development. For me, if I do that, I have succeeded, quite simply.

In this podcast, I'm obviously not going to talk to you about the clichéd success of the type you have to drive a Ferrari, become a professional footballer or own an island. No, that's unrelated, in my opinion, to real happiness. Of course, you can be happy by having these things, but having these things won't necessarily lead to happiness. So the first thing is to know what success means to you.

I think I've already quoted this sentence from my math teacher in the 10th grade. In the 10th grade, I must have been what? 15, 16 maybe. Yeah, 15. I must have been 15. And my 10th grade teacher used to say, "When you know where you're going, it's easier to get there." And so he used to say, "First set your goal, try to figure out which direction you're going, and only then get started," because if you don't choose what you want, if you don't define success for yourself, someone else will. It could be your boss at work who says, "You haven't decided, let me decide." It could be your husband or your wife, but there's always someone who decides. So if you want to decide for yourself, well, define and clarify things. It's really up to you to be clear about what success is.

Now here's the good news. Hold on tight. Success doesn't require doing extraordinary things. I'm not sure of my source. I heard this on a podcast recently. I think it was Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, but I'm not sure. In fact, these two people, who have a lot of experience, who have been successful financially and apparently in their lives, because they're happy people... I think Warren Buffett is almost 90 and Charlie Munger is almost 100 and they're still working and reading, so it seems to me... at least that's the impression they give, is that they've managed to get what they wanted. Well, they were saying that success doesn't require doing extraordinary things, but it consists in first of all in avoiding doing stupid, dangerous or immoral things.

And when you think about it, it really makes sense. What can cause your life to be a failure, to not succeed? Well, it's doing things that are immoral, dangerous or stupid, having too much debt, owing money, doing drugs, cheating on your wife or husband, being violent, really just big things that are stupid, immoral or dangerous and that can completely ruin your life and prevent you from succeeding. So really, it's these things that can lead to bankruptcy, prison, divorce, addictions or misery, if you're over-indebted, and therefore to the real difficulties of life.

I'm not saying that a person who has encountered one of the things I just mentioned has failed in life or has not succeeded, I would never allow myself to say that, but what I am saying is that, before looking for magical things to succeed, let's start by avoiding doing stupid things.

And once you've avoided doing stupid or dangerous or immoral things, well you focus on what's good, what's simple, what's not excessive, and you do it all the time, you repeat good actions with the principle of compound interest, that is to say a good thing that I do today, it will not only help me today but also tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. And every day, every positive thing that I add, well it will combine with all the other positive things to make me a better person and to make me successful.

Not long ago, in one of my YouTube videos on personal development, I took up the definition of success from Jim Rohn, the very famous American speaker and writer, who basically said that success was putting in place a few positive habits and repeating them all the time. Failure was repeating a few errors of judgment all the time.