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How To Achieve Success: Key Skills For Happiness, Wellbeing & Health | Achieve Your Goals Now

14 Sept 2016 · 2 min

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In this brief motivational video, Christoffel Sneijders expands on his earlier discussion of genetics and decision‑making to explain how achievements are created. Drawing on positive‑psychology research, he identifies two fundamental drivers of achievement: skill and effort. The video focuses on the skill side, breaking it down into three measurable parameters. First, the speed of learning – how quickly one can absorb new information. Second, the use of extra time – the practice of quickly scanning, rechecking, and organizing new material, illustrated with a military survey where faster re‑checking correlated with higher success. Third, the rate or breadth of learning – the amount and variety of knowledge acquired, from reading many books to engaging in extensive training and practice. Sneijders presents these concepts as a concise framework and promises a follow‑up video that will address the effort component.

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Hey, good to see you again. Last time we spoke about genes and how our decisions make who we are. 50% genes, 40% the decisions we make. Based on that, I'd like to go one step further with you, and it is how do we have achievements? How do we achieve really something? And based on positive psychology and how they study it, they said there are 2 major Things that really create an achievement. That's a skill we have and effort we take. In the skill they had, we have three parameters in skill. One is the speed of learning. How fast can we learn? How fast do we absorb all those things? The second one is what do we do when we have extra time? And they found out that people in military who did a quick scan of the survey. When they entered a new entry or new premises, when they were faster than other ones, the time they were faster and they did the recheck— okay, so I checked everything, what can I do? This, this, this, this, this— were more successful than people who took more time in the whole environment to absorb everything, to have an achievement. So this is what do you do with the extra time you have compared to other people? How do you then plan, recheck, organize? The third thing of skill makes sense. I always say the third one is the rate of learning. How much do we learn? Do we only focus on one thing, or do we learn much more? Do we read one book, or do we read 10 books? Do you see one of my videos? Do you see all of my videos? Do you do a short training of something? Do you do an extended training of something? Do you just learn it? Do you also exercise it a lot? That makes a lot of sense. This is the short one about the skill. The next video, because you know I like to do 2-minute videos, we talk about the effort. See you in the next video. Ciao, have a beautiful day.