There is a nice story about Jerry Rice, american football player, running in the Sunday, February 9, 2010 print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle’s. The story is about the secrets of success.

In summary the secret of success according to Jerry Rice is the following:

  • Put effort
  • You will have to struggle
  • Persist despite the setbacks
  • Strategize and make your choices
  • Choose difficult tasks
  • Keep learning and trying to improve

According to Carol Dweck’s research (read MindSet) success in nutshell is all about in the trying and the doing. Apart from the putting effort and to keep learning, Carol Dweck also suggests that another success ingredient is to capitalise on mistakes and to comfront deficiencies as they allow you to learn more

At the end of the day it is down to what works for you. There isn’t universal truth.