Being successful is not about being smart or naturally gifted. Research shows our IQ accounts for just 20% of “success” in life.
Instead, success—however you define it—is achieved by being consistent in the pursuit of your goals.
It comes down to the small things, like daily routines, key behaviours, and (perhaps more importantly) managing distraction.
This has always been true, but it’s especially true today, in an age when pervasive, habit-forming technology has made succumbing to distraction so easy.
— Nir Eyal (Former Stanford Lecturer and bestselling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life).
My brain just grabbed ahold of IQ accounting for only 20% of success in life. I find that motivating because, although I managed pretty decent grades in school/college and solid performance at work, I am no brain surgeon, Lol. I always envied my brother’s photographic memory. He could read his text book the night before an exam and score an A. I would keep up with my homework, rewrite and review my notes and generally score a B or B+‘ish result. (I’d get A’s in gym, music and math, because my Dad was a math teacher, but lots of B’s otherwise). So, good to know that we can potentially make up a lot of ground through goal setting, focus, effort and determination. Just sayin’ :) Hugs. XO
Blessings,
Chatgirl
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