Micro Class: Success: 3 = 75%

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on success. The three variables that lead to 75% of success. It's inspired by broadcasting happiness by Michelle Guiwen. Michelle Guiwen is a former CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher who happens to be married to Sean Acor, another leading positive psychologist. And together they've worked with basically a third of the Fortune 100 big businesses. And what they've learned is, among other things, that There are essentially three variables that lead to 75% of success. That's a lot. Here they are. The first one is optimism. Second one is engagement. And the third one is basically social support. Let's talk about them each briefly. Optimism. Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania, who wrote Learned optimism. Check out the note on that. Is one of Michelle's mentors. He basically walked us through the science of how to develop our optimism. But the basic aspects of optimism we want to pay attention to right now are we think our future is going to be better. We think we can do something about it. Our behavior is going to drive it. The pessimist thinks the future is going to be negative, going to be worse, and there's nothing they can do. Sad face, right? Nothing I do is going to make life better. The optimist believes the future will be better and believes their behavior will be the reason their future will be better. And of course, we know that optimism predicts all the things you want in your life. It's very important to have a rational optimism, which we're going to talk about soon. The second facet is engagement. Basic idea here is that when this person experiences stress, yikes, something negative, right? That's challenging. They don't see it as negative. They see it as a fueling opportunity to get a little bit better. They tell a better story about stress than people who are disengaged and get burned out. Third facet is support. And the basic idea here is really cool. When we think of support, we often think of, well, how much support did the person get in the office? That's what's going to lead to success. They need to get a lot of support. But what's interesting is the research shows that it's the amount of support you give. Are you a work altruist? Do you give support to people? That is more important than getting support? Not that getting support is bad, but you want to focus on giving support, be engaged, right? Tell good stories around the stress, see it as fuel rather than some unnecessary bad thing in your life, and then know that your future is going to be better because you are going to.

Do what needs to get done.

Those are the three variables that Michelle and Sean tell us lead to 75% of success. So if you are hiring people, we all look at, you know, grades and GPAs and scores and technical skills, which are obviously relevant to a degree, but this is way more relevant. Do your candidates, do your team members demonstrate this? As a leader in an organization, it's our responsibility to cultivate this and to create a culture of positivity and optimism, engagement, support, etc. What can you do to dial in and what are you doing really well? Celebrate that. Michelle talks about progress now. Important is to constantly celebrate progress. What are you doing really, really well right now in these areas and what can use a little work? Get on that. Have fun. Let's create some more success.

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