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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters

Authors: Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson

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The essential difference with Builders is that they’ve found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current.

The Big Idea:

Enduringly successful people have created lives that matter through finding meaning, employing a positive and resourceful mindset and having a bias towards action.

Stories

Jack Lalanne was a sickly, depressed and bullied child who tried to commit suicide at age 15. But after discovering the power of exercise, his life changed and the rest is history – selling 200 fitness clubs to Bally’s Total Fitness, and multiple world records in swimming, pushups and other fitness activities.

Condeleeza Rice – was a music major who started college at age 15, realized she could be a good pianist but never a virtuoso, and later chose to study international relations, teaching at Stanford when she was in her 20’s.

Meaning

Enduringly successful people:

• Don’t just look for fame, money and power (even though many have them) or get distracted by Bright Shiny Objects
• Pursue things that give personal meaning to their lives
• Don’t try to “balance” their lives in the traditional – their hard work is a result of nearly irrational exuberance
• Know that they can have and pursue several intense passions over their lives

Thoughtstyle

Enduringly successful people:

• Aren’t always extroverted, but can’t help but be charismatic about their
• Use their many mistakes as opportunities to grow and become better
• Find creative ways to overcome and embrace their weaknesses
• Use pain to help them find their passion

Actionstyle

Enduringly successful people:

• Earn their luck through preparation, hard work and big goals
• Create alignment in their teams, relationships, words/actions, and environment
• Encourage open conversation and welcome dissent and criticism

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

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