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Either we have no dreams, or our dreams are interesting.

We should learn to arrange our waking life the same way.

Nothing or interesting.

The chance of living a good life is increased by attaining success in two main areas.

Firstly, we need to make money, as poverty is limiting and acts as a barrier to many of life's great experiences.

Secondly, we need to consistently take part in challenging but intrinsically rewarding activities.

In this video, we are going to explore how we can achieve the uncommon success of getting it right in both these areas.

We are going to examine, in other words, how we can cultivate an intrinsically rewarding and financially lucrative career.

What keeps this form of success uncommon are three main factors or what can be called the defining

weaknesses of our generation. The first of these weaknesses is a lack of purpose. Most people

drift through life and fail to harness the power of

effective goal setting. The second weakness is a proclivity for laziness and an inability to overcome

procrastination, perfectionism, self-doubt, and complacency. In the third weakness is our generation's

ever-shinking attention spans and the tendency

to distraction. If we counteract these weaknesses, we will be one of the few for whom uncommon success is destiny.

The first step toward uncommon success, therefore, is to counteract the first-generational

weakness by setting some goals. For goals, by giving us something to aim at, act as the

loadstones on the path to uncommon success. Without some goal and some effort to reach it,

no man can live, said Theodore Dostoevsky.

In his book, The Art of Impossible, a Peak Performance Primer, Stephen Kotler suggests that to achieve great things, we need three types of goals.

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