Four Components of Success

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Laura Nash and Howard Stephenson, of the Harvard Business School, did a long study of what made people feel an enduring sense of real success, including in-depth interviews with over 60 successful professionals, survey of 90 top executives attending Harvard Business School and anthropological observation of other known high-achievers. After building this model they tested and proved it in over a dozen sessions with 50 to 100 executives in each. Suffice to say, it is a pretty good model.

In summary, they found four 'irreducible components' that were necessary for people to feel a strong and enduring sense of success.

2. Achievement

Achievements are accomplishments such that goals we have set ourselves are achieved. As we socially construct our selves, they usually compare favorably against similar goals of other people.

In particular we feel a greater sense of achievement when we have worked hard to achieve a stretching goal where we and others were not sure that it would be possible to meet that goal.

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Four Components of Success

1. Happiness

2. Achievement

3. Significance

4. Legacy

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