Want to be successful? In that search, you can enter a maze of YouTube videos, articles, and gurus. There is a legion of twenty-something entrepreneurs living in their parents’ basements cranking out online courses on how you too can enjoy their living large lifestyle.
We are bombarded with information. Most of it is useless. The secret is finding the signal through all that noise.
What is the signal for success? What is the one principle you need to follow?
The ability to say no is a superpower. Every other talent, skill, or strength is secondary to it.
Who says no
Steve Jobs was co-founder and CEO of Apple. Warren Buffet is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and arguably one of the world’s richest men. Inc.com wrote how both he lived by no.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. — Warren Buffet
Steve Jobs echoed that sentiment.
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually…
