ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Richard St. John - Marketer, success analyst
A self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved, Richard St. John spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success -- and distilling them into 8 words, 3 minutes and one successful book.

Why you should listen

Richard St. John was on his way to the TED conference when a girl on the plane asked him, "What really leads to success?" Even though he had achieved some success, he couldn't explain how he did it. So he spent the next ten years researching success and asking over 500 extraordinarily successful people in many fields what helped them succeed. After analyzing, sorting, and correlating millions of words of research, and building one of the most organized databases on the subject of success, he discovered "The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common" and wrote the bestseller 8 To Be Great.

In his books and talks,he shares a wealth of wisdom from the world's most successful people -- knowledge that can help others succeed in their own way, whether it's escaping poverty, building a business, raising a family, or changing the world.

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Richard St. John: Success is a continuous journey

Ричард Ст. Џон "Успехот е континуирано патување"

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Отворено, типично во негов стил. Ричард Ст. Џон не потсетува дека успехот не е улица во еден правец, туку непрекинато патување. Ја користи сторијата за растот и падот на својот бизнис за да презентира една важна лекција -- кога ќе престанеме да се трудиме - паѓаме.
- Marketer, success analyst
A self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved, Richard St. John spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success -- and distilling them into 8 words, 3 minutes and one successful book. Full bio

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Why do so many people reach success and then fail?
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Зошто многумина постигнуваат успех, а потоа доживуваат неуспех?
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One of the big reasons is, we think success is a one-way street.
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Една од поважните причини е затоа што мислиме дека успехот е улица во еден правец.
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So we do everything that leads up to success,
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Правиме се што не води до успехот.
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but then we get there. We figure we've made it,
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И ќе постигнеме успех. Ќе се увериме дека сме успеале,
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we sit back in our comfort zone,
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и се повлекуваме во комфорната зона,
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and we actually stop doing everything that made us successful.
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и всушност престануваме да правиме се што не направило успешни.
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And it doesn't take long to go downhill.
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И не треба многу време за да тргне надолу.
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And I can tell you this happens,
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И можам да ви потврдам дека ова се случува.
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because it happened to me.
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Затоа што ми се случи и мене.
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Reaching success, I worked hard, I pushed myself.
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За постигнување на успехот работев напорно, се туркав себеси,
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But then I stopped, because I figured, "Oh, you know, I made it.
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Но после запрев, бидејки увидов "Ох, знаете, успеав.
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I can just sit back and relax."
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И сега можам да си седам и да се релаксирам."
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Reaching success, I always tried to improve and do good work.
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За да успеам, секогаш се обидував да се подобрувам и добро да работам.
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But then I stopped because I figured, "Hey, I'm good enough.
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Но потоа запрев бидејќи заклучив "Еј, па ја сум доволно добар.
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I don't need to improve any more."
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Нема потреба повеќе да се подобрувам."
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Reaching success, I was pretty good at coming up with good ideas.
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На патот до успехот, бев прилично добар кога беа потребни нови идеи.
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Because I did all these simple things that led to ideas.
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Затоа што ги правев сите оние ситни нешта кои водеа до идеи.
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But then I stopped, because I figured I was this hot-shot guy
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Но тогаш запрев. Поради тоа што видов дека сум ептен фраер
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and I shouldn't have to work at ideas, they should just come like magic.
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и не треба да работам за нови идеи. Тие на магичен начин сами ќе си дојдат.
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And the only thing that came was creative block.
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А едина работа која дојде беше креативна блокада.
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I couldn't come up with any ideas.
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Не ми доаѓаше ниту една идеја.
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Reaching success, I always focused on clients and projects,
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При достигнувањето на успехот, постојано се фокусирав на клиентите и проектите,
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and ignored the money. Then all this money started pouring in.
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и ги игнорирав парите. А потоа парите сами ќе почнеа да се сливаат.
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And I got distracted by it.
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Тоа ме вознемируваше.
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And suddenly I was on the phone to my stockbroker and my real estate agent,
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И одеднаш се најдов на телефон со мојот брокер и мојот агент за недвижности,
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when I should have been talking to my clients.
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наместо да зборувам со моите клиенти.
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And reaching success, I always did what I loved.
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На патот до успехот секогаш работев тоа што го сакав.
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But then I got into stuff that I didn't love,
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Но потоа сападнав во работи кои не ги сакав,
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like management. I am the world's worst manager,
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како менаџмент. Јас сум најлошиот менаџер во светот.
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but I figured I should be doing it, because I was, after all,
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Но заклучив дека треба да го правам тоа. Зошто јас бев, после се,
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the president of the company.
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претседател на компанијата.
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Well, soon a black cloud formed over my head
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Така, наскоро, црн облак се створи над мојата глава
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and here I was, outwardly very successful,
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и јас бев тука, навидум многу успешен,
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but inwardly very depressed.
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но всушност бев во депресија.
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But I'm a guy; I knew how to fix it.
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Но јас сум маж - знаев како да го средам тоа.
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I bought a fast car.
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Си купив брз автомобил.
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(Laughter)
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(Смеа)
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It didn't help.
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Но не помогна.
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I was faster but just as depressed.
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Да, бев побрз, но сеуште во депресија.
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So I went to my doctor. I said, "Doc,
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Затоа, го посетив мојот доктор и му реков "Докторе,
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I can buy anything I want. But I'm not happy. I'm depressed.
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можам да купам се што сакам, но не сум среќен. Во депресија сум.
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It's true what they say, and I didn't believe it until it happened to me.
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Вистина е што се зборува, но неможев да поверувам додека не ми се случи мене.
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But money can't buy happiness."
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Парите неможат да ми купат среќа."
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He said, "No. But it can buy Prozac."
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Рече, "Не. Но можат да ти купат Прозак."
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And he put me on anti-depressants.
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И ме стави на анти-депресанти.
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And yeah, the black cloud faded a little bit, but so did all the work,
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И црниот облак избледе малку. Но исто така избледе и работата.
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because I was just floating along. I couldn't care less if clients ever called.
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Затоа што јас само лебдев наоколу. Воопшто не се секирав дали клиентите ке се јават или не.
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(Laughter)
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And clients didn't call.
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И, клиентите не се јавуваа.
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(Laughter)
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Because they could see I was no longer serving them,
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Бидејќи гледаа дека повеќе не им служам на нив,
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I was only serving myself.
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туку само себе си.
02:40
So they took their money and their projects to others who would serve them better.
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Па, тие ги земаа нивните пари и проекти и ги дадоа на други кои ќе им ги сработат подобро.
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Well, it didn't take long for business to drop like a rock.
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И, не требаше многу за бизнисот да падне како камен.
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My partner and I, Thom, we had to let all our employees go.
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Мојот партнер Том и јас, требаше да ги отпуштиме сите вработени.
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It was down to just the two of us, and we were about to go under.
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Останавме само ние двајца, и ќе одевме уште подолу.
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And that was great.
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Но тоа испадна одлично.
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Because with no employees, there was nobody for me to manage.
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Бидејќи кога нема вработени, нема на кого да сум менаџер.
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So I went back to doing the projects I loved.
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Па се вратив да работам на проектите што ги сакав.
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I had fun again, I worked harder and, to cut a long story short,
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Повторно се забавував. Работев повеќе. И да скратам:
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did all the things that took me back up to success.
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ги направив сите работи кои повторно ме доведоа до успех.
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But it wasn't a quick trip.
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Но тоа не беше кус пат.
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It took seven years.
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Траеше неколку години.
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But in the end, business grew bigger than ever.
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Но на крај, бизнисот стануваше поголем од било кога.
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And when I went back to following these eight principles,
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И кога се вртив на следењето на овие осум принципи,
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the black cloud over my head disappeared altogether.
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црниот облак над мојата глава исчезна.
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And I woke up one day and I said,
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Се разбудив еден ден и реков,
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"I don't need Prozac anymore."
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"Не ми треба Прозак повеќе."
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And I threw it away and haven't needed it since.
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И го фрлив и не ми притребал од тогаш.
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I learned that success isn't a one-way street.
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Научив дека успехот не е улица во еден правец.
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It doesn't look like this; it really looks more like this.
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Воопшто не е така. Повеќе изгледа вака.
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It's a continuous journey.
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Тоа е континуирано патување.
03:36
And if we want to avoid "success-to-failure-syndrome,"
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И ако сакаме да го избегнеме "синдромот од-успех-до-неуспех"
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we just keep following these eight principles,
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треба само да се држиме до овие осум принципи.
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because that is not only how we achieve success,
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Бидејќи тие не се само за тоа како да постигнеме успех,
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it's how we sustain it.
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туку и како да го одржиме.
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So here is to your continued success.
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Тоа е се, нека придонесе за ваш континуиран успех.
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Thank you very much.
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Ви благодарам многу.
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(Applause)
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(Аплауз)
Translated by Zoran Blazevski
Reviewed by Marko Marcevski

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Richard St. John - Marketer, success analyst
A self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved, Richard St. John spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success -- and distilling them into 8 words, 3 minutes and one successful book.

Why you should listen

Richard St. John was on his way to the TED conference when a girl on the plane asked him, "What really leads to success?" Even though he had achieved some success, he couldn't explain how he did it. So he spent the next ten years researching success and asking over 500 extraordinarily successful people in many fields what helped them succeed. After analyzing, sorting, and correlating millions of words of research, and building one of the most organized databases on the subject of success, he discovered "The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common" and wrote the bestseller 8 To Be Great.

In his books and talks,he shares a wealth of wisdom from the world's most successful people -- knowledge that can help others succeed in their own way, whether it's escaping poverty, building a business, raising a family, or changing the world.

More profile about the speaker
Richard St. John | Speaker | TED.com

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