Hierdie is eintlik ’n twee-uur aanbieding vir hoërskoolleerders, kortgeknip na drie minute. Dit begin op ’n vliegtuig, op pad TED toe, sewe jaar gelede. In die sitplek langs my was ’n hoërskoolleerder, ’n tiener, van ’n baie arm gesin. Sy wou iets van haar lewe maak. Sy't my ’n eenvoudige vraag gevra: "Wat lei tot sukses?" Ek't rêrig sleg gevoel, want ek kon haar nie ’n goeie antwoord gee nie. So ek klim van die vliegtuig af, en ek kom TED toe. Ek dink toe, jissie, ek's in ’n kamer vól suksesvolle mense! So hoekom vra ek hulle nie uit oor hulle sukses en dra dit dan oor aan kinders nie? So hier is ons, sewe jaar en 500 onderhoude later en ek gaan vir julle vertel wat rêrig tot sukses lei en hoe TEDsters se koppe werk. Die eerste ding is passie. Freeman Thomas sê: "My passie dryf my." TEDsters doen dit vir die liefde; nie vir geld nie. Carol Coletta sê: "Ek sou iemand betaal om te mag doen wat ek doen." Interessant: as jy dit doen vir die liefde, kom die geld in elk geval. "Werk!" sê Rupert Murdoch vir my. "Dis alles harde werk. Niks kom maklik nie. Maar ek't baie pret." Het hy gesê pret? Rupert? Ja! (Gelag) TEDsters geniet hulle werk. En hulle werk hard. Hulle's nie "workaholics" nie. Hulle's "workafrolics". (Gelag) Goed! (Applous) Alex Garden sê: "Om suksesvol te wees, klim in die ding in en raak goed, raak kundig daarin." Daar's geen toorkuns nie; dis oefen, oefen, oefen. En dis fokus. Norman Jewison sê vir my: "Dit het alles te doen met jouself op een ding fokus." En druk! David Gallo sê: "Druk jouself. Fisies, verstandelik, jy moet druk, druk, druk." Jy moet druk deur bedeesdheid en selftwyfel. Goldie Hawn sê: "Ek't altyd getwyfel aan myself. Ek was nie good genoeg of slim genoeg nie. Ek't nie gedink ek sou dit maak nie." Dis nie altyd maklik om jouself te druk nie, en dis hoekom ma's gemaak is. (Gelag) (Applous) Frank Gehry sê: "My ma het my gedruk." (Gelag) Dien! Sherwin Nuland sê: "Dit was ’n voorreg om as ’n dokter te dien." Baie kinders wil miljoenêrs wees. Die eerste ding wat ek sê is: "OK, jy kan nie jouself dien nie; jy moet ander iets van waarde bied. Want dis hoe mense rêrig ryk raak." Idees! TEDster Bill Gates sê: "Ek't ’n idee gehad: om die eerste mikrorekenaar- sagtewaremaatskappy te stig." Ek sou sê dit was ’n redelike goeie idee. En daar's geen toorkuns agter kreatiewe idees nie -- dis net ’n paar eenvoudige dinge. En ek gee baie getuienis. Hou aan! Joe Kraus sê: "Aanhou is die nommer een rede vir ons sukses." Jy moet deur mislukkings aanhou. Jy moet deur stront (crap) aanhou: "Kritiek, Verwerping, Poepholle en Druk. (C-R-A-P)" (Gelag) So, die antwoord op die vraag is eenvoudig: Betaal $4000 en kom TED toe. (Gelag) Of, as dit nie werk nie, doen die agt dinge -- en glo my, hierdie is die groot agt dinge wat lei tot sukses. Dankie TEDsters vir al julle onderhoude! (Applous)
This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family. And she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. She said, "What leads to success?" And I felt really badly, because I couldn't give her a good answer. So I get off the plane, and I come to TED. And I think, jeez, I'm in the middle of a room of successful people! So why don't I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids? So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I'm going to tell you what really leads to success and makes TEDsters tick. And the first thing is passion. Freeman Thomas says, "I'm driven by my passion." TEDsters do it for love; they don't do it for money. Carol Coletta says, "I would pay someone to do what I do." And the interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway. Work! Rupert Murdoch said to me, "It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun." Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes! (Laughter) TEDsters do have fun working. And they work hard. I figured, they're not workaholics. They're workafrolics. (Laughter) Good! (Applause) Alex Garden says, "To be successful, put your nose down in something and get damn good at it." There's no magic; it's practice, practice, practice. And it's focus. Norman Jewison said to me, "I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing." And push! David Gallo says, "Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you've got to push, push, push." You've got to push through shyness and self-doubt. Goldie Hawn says, "I always had self-doubts. I wasn't good enough; I wasn't smart enough. I didn't think I'd make it." Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers. (Laughter) (Applause) Frank Gehry said to me, "My mother pushed me." (Laughter) Serve! Sherwin Nuland says, "It was a privilege to serve as a doctor." A lot of kids want to be millionaires. The first thing I say is: "OK, well you can't serve yourself; you've got to serve others something of value. Because that's the way people really get rich." Ideas! TEDster Bill Gates says, "I had an idea: founding the first micro-computer software company." I'd say it was a pretty good idea. And there's no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas -- it's just doing some very simple things. And I give lots of evidence. Persist! Joe Kraus says, "Persistence is the number one reason for our success." You've got to persist through failure. You've got to persist through crap! Which of course means "Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure." (Laughter) So, the answer to this question is simple: Pay 4,000 bucks and come to TED. (Laughter) Or failing that, do the eight things -- and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. Thank you TEDsters for all your interviews! (Applause)