Comments on: Twenty traits of successful people

By: Chris Melton

Chris Melton — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:31:39 +0000

Thanks, Sarah – and you’re right, successful people do tend to favor perfectionism. Nice add!

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:48:17 +0000

This was awesome to read.. Very concise yet informative. Successful people are usually perfectionists also!! so 21. They are perfectionists.
lol lol

By: Chris Melton

Chris Melton — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:13:19 +0000

Robert, thanks for your feedback. I agree with your assessment – otherwise, I would not have included “honesty” and “mindfulness of others”. Far too many people assume that financial gain equals success – that’s just not the case.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:35:40 +0000

Chris, I’m sure the executives of the Wall Street banks, as well as those of some other corporations in America and George W. Bush, also had some, if not most, of the traits of success you listed and described above. However, it’s also very apparent that they lacked or neglected few critical traits which led to the current economic hardship in America – not the least of which are #19 and #20. A success without ethics or morality is a failure!

By: Chris Melton

Chris Melton — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:09:36 +0000

I just responded to your other comment on my old wordpress.com site, but I will address your comments here as well.

Personally, I would not consider Hitler or Stalin as successful in the context of this blog.

However, I don’t mention luck in this list because “luck” is the crutch often used to explain a person’s lack of success. They sit back in the comfort of their mediocre lifestyle and use phrases like, “He was just in the right place at the right time”, or “Everything just seems to go right for him/her”

Those who are successful have worked way too hard to think that luck had anything to do with their accomplishments. Perhaps it is like Edison said, “Most people don’t recognize success because it is disguised as hard work.”

But I guess that on attempt #10,001, Edison got lucky and invented the light bulb. And as far as that goes, How does luck figure into the success of a person like Michael Segal (http://www.soupornuts.com/life-is-change-and-change-is-life/)?

I guess that you want me to believe that getting shot in the back of the head was lucky for him? Yet, he used that to become an inspiration to millions.

My point is that despite the circumstances, successful people do not and will not ever rely on luck.

In contrast, people who have not achieved the degree of success that they “think” they deserve will always play the “luck” card when asked to explain their lack of success.

So, what about you – are you going to rely on a super-natural phenomenon? Or will you accept responsibility for your life and how it turns out?

If luck is involved as you defend, then it really doesn’t matter what you do, does it?

By: Aspiring Success

Aspiring Success — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:35:04 +0000

As I commented for another article in this site, whether we like it or not, luck can play a big or, even, critical role for one’s success, as well. Also, some of the traits in this article are bit too idealistic. To be more realistic, some people, including the well-known, whom we consider to be “successful” used other, less honorable methods – such as fear, deception or manipulation – in addition or in place of the listed traits. For example, one cannot possibly attribute most of the listed twenty traits to people like Hitler or Stalin who were “successful”, at least for some part of their lives.