Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither.

Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

Joe Kraus says, “Persistence is the number one reason for our success.” You gotta persist through failure. You gotta persist through crap! Which of course means “Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.”