Success ... 8 Traits to be GREAT!

12/3/2015

How do you define success? Are you feeling successful? This very interesting TedEd talk by Richard St.John takes conversations that he has had with extremely successful people and he has found 8 traits or things that they all do that have helped them succeed.
For your blog post this week, I want you to pick one of these 8 traits and decide how you will use it this week, and what that will look like? Will you demonstrate passion during a sports event? Will you persist through a tough subject at school? Spend your time focussing on that ONE thing so you don’t spread yourself too thin. It's totally up to you what you pick but write down a plan and see if it helps!

Yerin

12/3/2015 12:46:54 pm

I thought this video was so great! it motivated me to be a successful student and person.

After thinking about it, the trait I chose was "improve" because there is always something you can improve on!

Going back to last week's blog post, I said I needed to practice my clarinet for the winter concert. After I got the song done, I noticed I squeaked sometimes when I played the song. That is something I needed to improve on. I think the best way to improve is to think about what you did wrong, and practice it!

Doing this helped me squeak less, and improve on my clarinet skills.

I will also try to focus on improving in other things aswell like math,sports and painting!

Although improving is very important, I want to do all of the 8 traits. I think if you work on what you want to do, you can do it!
And all of these traits will make me be successful.

Monica

12/3/2015 01:14:43 pm

After This video I felt Motivated to do something I am not very good at.

I think Richard St. John is a great motivational speaker because he described why he said everything he said.

After watching, I felt like I should choose the 4th " Push"
By this I mean I will push my self to do harder next time, even if I am doing my best. I will be happy that I am doing my best, But I wont be satisfied with what I have done.

A quick but short example is when I am playing anything at gym everyone knows I am not really good, But sometimes I am joyful that I hit the ball, But not satisfied. Even if I think I did good. There is always next time to do better. I think I need to push my self to do better next time and forever.

By doing this I think I can feel more confident about my sports skills
( I don't have any), And not have my team upset that I am not a good player. I will also improve in school subjects like math, Language etc. and I will always push my self to be the best.

This is how I think I will get more successful over the week and forever

Sincerely,
Monica

12/3/2015 03:10:57 pm

Good Job!!

Khushi

12/3/2015 04:35:12 pm

This Video really inspired me to work harder and to do everything with a passion... Even though there are some things that I really don't like but I still do them,

I think Richard St.Johnson is not just a great informational speaker but also a motivational speaker.After what he said I really wanted to work on 2 traits and I decided to put those 2 traits together to make 1 and I chose "Passion and Improve".

I remembered about last weeks blog post and how I wrote about practicing the Clarinet and how I needed to improve on it and Music is one of my passions.I noticed that On Dreydl Dreydl I was off beat and that is one thing that I need to improve on.I think that the best way to improve on something is to practice and practice until you get it right and to make sure you focus on the mistake.

Doing this helped me learn the beat and notes of the song and improve on my music skills.

I will also try to focus on some other of my passions like playing the guitar,Drawing/painting and sports like badminton and swimming.I will also improve on the stuff I don't like because sometimes you need to step out of the box and try new things.

Although I am focusing on Passion and Improving, the other 6 traits are super important to.From my experience I think you should focus on something you love and keep on trying until you succeed but don't worry if your'e not perfect because there is no such thing as being perfect because everybody is special in there own way.

P.S. Don't forget to step out of your comfort zone sometimes.

Ana link

12/3/2015 04:48:13 pm

this is a motivating speech probably one of the most motivating I've ever heard it is also very inspirational it inspired me to do lots of things to become a bigger person. The 8 traits can really help a lot of people like me and others it will most likely help everyone in this class or even Country many even this world we can all be led to success and achievements.

It can be very inspirational to you two if you set your mind to it

Emily

12/4/2015 12:37:01 pm

This Ted-Talk speech was extremely motivational speech for me.

The trait I want to do / liked was " Improve ". The thing I want to work on is music.

Last week I was talking about my music for christmas concert but this week I decided to talk about my other music.

~ I want to push my music because for my cello lessons sometimes I get bored and not want to do it anymore, but if I want to get better at cello then I have to push myself into it. So during cello lessons I pay attention to my mistakes and what I need to work on because there are a lot of things you need to learn in music before starting.
1. You have to know how to read the bass clef, treble clef and tenor clef.
2. You have to know the tune or you'll mess everything up.
3. Have confident in yourself knowing that whatever you do try your best no matter what!

On Saturday December 5, 2015 I have to play a cello piece in front of the crowd and the students at my music school! I've pushed myself for months to do a GREAT job and I hope I do good. But all I know is if I didn't push myself for months and feel confidence in myself I wouldn't be able to go in front of people and perform a solo. Even though it wouldn't be my first time I am super nervous because I have to play a different clef but I know I have tried my hardest!

Whenever I push myself I build confident each time I do it and do it! Building confident and pushing yourself is what you need to build up success!

This is my blog post for this week!

~ Emily

Aidan Roseland-Barnes

12/5/2015 11:52:23 am

The trait I chose was improve because on last Friday my trombone teacher gave me a new scale, song and complete scales at 120 tempo.
I need to improve so I can do all those things

Nicole

12/6/2015 05:50:23 am

After watching the video the one trait that I chose is "Work really hard".

The way I want to use it is in volleyball. We had tryouts last week and I made the team. We are going to start practices soon and I want to be the best I can be. I am going to try to work as hard as I can so that I will help the team out and myself out by being confident and doing the best I ever can.

" Work hard" or " Never give up" or " Be the best you can be" are the kind of traits that I will always depend on. If I mess up I like to know that I did my best.

Dominique

12/7/2015 12:43:21 pm

This week I want to WORK on my baking so I will make good Cookies for SANTA! I will work very hard so it tastes good for Santa! We are going to a Christmas Party and we have to bring desserts! My dad will make pouding chomeur and I will make LOTS of cookies. That will give me lots practice. I mess up EVERY time we make cookies but practice makes perffect!

~Dominique :)

Chloe

12/7/2015 12:47:48 pm

I think that there is always something that you can do to make yourself better. But after watching this video I thought that the trait that I wanted to do was "Improve".

I want to Improve a lot of things but at the top of my list is to improve my shot in hockey. To do this I am going to spend around an hour everyday in the basement practicing my shot. I want to shoot 50 or more pucks a night. I think that this will make me a better hockey player and improve my shot.

That is what I want to improve this week!

Kai

12/7/2015 01:01:10 pm

"IDEAS"
This video was really powerful and motivational for me so I chose to work on improving my ideas,
This week I am going to try and find more ideas and strategies for what I am doing. I really want to work on my badminton skills for gym, and the one way that I can do that is by finding more ideas and strategies for the game. One thing that I am struggling with in badminton is seeing where the birdie is with the glasses on. I am going to try and improve my hand I coordination with the birdie and badminton racket, while wearing the glasses. If I get better at this than I will be a lot better at badminton. If I think of more ideas like this than I will get better than I was before at what I am doing. It is always good to think of more ideas, so that way you can keep on using the ones that you like and not use the ones you don't really like.

Blake

12/7/2015 02:04:35 pm

I am gonna try to push myself to get better at volleyball by practicing volleyball at my house and work on my skills at volleyball practice.

Salma

12/7/2015 02:59:50 pm

I really enjoyed watching that video because it was really motivational and really interesting,why is it interesting you might ask?, well his story started off but not knowing who he really was. he didn't know if he was successful or if he was how did he be successful.....?

Out of the 8 traits I choose "Push yourself".
I choose "push yourself" because no matter if you've failed at something you can always try again. You just have to keep practicing. For example about a week ago or 2 I wanted to bake a cake for my family. after I made the mixture I put the cake into a pan and into a oven. it was suppose to bake for about 20 min but I accidently forgot to put the timer and I let 1 hour pass and the whole cake was burned. Then about 2 days ago I made a cake and I made sure I put a timer and it came out perfectly.
always remember to "Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you"!

Aidan P

12/7/2015 04:01:14 pm

I think this was a good video because it inspired me to try hard at school and never give up my mom is going to help me by giving me more and more math and word problems a day Intel I get better.
also when I feel like I can't get a problem that I can't solve I will try to push my self inlet I get it right. If I don't push my self my mom will push me. If my mom does not push me my dad will

Rayna

12/7/2015 05:24:15 pm

After watching the video and thinking about each trait, I decided to choose the trait "persist".

After making the volleyball team I decided to work hard on getting better. I want to practice my over hand serve. I am going to keep trying even if it gets difficult because persist means to continue trying even if it gets difficult and I fail.

Even though I chose the trait persist we should all do all of these traits. After all this is how we can become successful.

Haider

12/8/2015 12:51:36 pm

This video was very motivational because of the 8 traits.
Out of all the 8 traits I choose "Focus"

When I have homework and other lots of stuff have to do everyday I always have to focus on what's important to do first and what's not. Example:

When I come back from school I use my 1 hour wisely to do my homework which is the important thing to do everyday I come back from school, after 1 hour I have to go pick up my brother from the bus stop, I come back from picking my brother off from the bus stop I keep doing my homework until I am done I can do the other important stuff or if I have nothing to do then do something fun like make a YouTube video to improve my YouTube channel.

Jessica

12/8/2015 01:58:50 pm

Out of the 8 traits I choose focus

I'm not the best at math so what I focus on is trying to get better at math I focus on the question more and practice at home to try to get better at math that is why I choose focus.

-Jessica

paul

12/8/2015 05:17:17 pm

The trait that I will practice this week to demonstrate success will be to push myself to become a better learner. To do that I will not talk during a lesson or fool around with my friends. Instead I will pay attention, listen to others and if I need help I will ask for it so I can understand what we are learning.

TOM

12/8/2015 06:12:38 pm

This video was very helpful to me. After thinking about it the trait I choose"push" because I need to push myself to talk more.
I don't want to talk because I am shy and I am afraid of saying things wrong.
I need to keep pushing myself to talk to others I should not be afraid of make mistakes because mistakes are learning!

Sydney

12/9/2015 01:02:40 pm

One of the 8 traits I will work on this week is "Improve". I just recently made the jr girls volley ball team and I noticed quite a few skills I need to improve on, such as my serves and volley's.So this week I have been practicing the skills in my house or outside when I get the chance and have already noticed a great improvement.

Connor 0_0

12/9/2015 05:02:13 pm

The video inspired me to do something I'm not good at! like... math! *cue dramatic music* Hahaha I'm just kidding! But it inspired me to be successful, this time I'm not kidding. I will improve on stuff I'm not good at, like working as a video game designer! I always liked video games, so I will make my own video game, with a group! I want to practice on a coding website called scratch.

Lucas

12/10/2015 06:24:55 pm

I really enjoyed this video I thought t was amazing because Richard is a amazing speaker he really inspired me he really inspired me to try my hardest and don't give up and I realized in this video what you need to do to succeed and be successful in life and any other thing that you might need succes

I chose to do two of the "8 traits to be great" because there were two traits that really spoke to me and that I really thought where things that were really important in succes

Serve:
The first trait that I chose in the "8 traits to be great is serve I really like this trait because you really need to do things together and help other people to be successful for example to make a piece of clothes you need to work together as a team you need one person to get the fabric one person to do the sewing and you need to work together and teamwork and working together is a big part of success if you are not a person who hates collaboration.

Practice:
the second trait I chose to do from the "8 traits to be great" is practice you need to practice for everything well mostly everything for example for the christmas concert on thursday we didn't just pick a instrument and try and play it we needed to practice and practice Jingle bells and Dreidel dreidel and as the saying goes "practice makes perfect" you really do need to practice for most of the things in life but not all things.

Even though I only talked about two traits I really do believe that all those things do lead to succes

Lucas

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12/10/2015 06:33:19 pm

I found this Ted Talk by Richard St. John really inspiring because he talked to people who were VERY successful in life and this is the trait I chose

The trait I chose for Richard St. John "8 Traits to be Great" was passion and I chose it for all of these reasons and after that I will tell you how I will use it in school this week and in sports.

1. The first reason I picked this trait is because passion can lead to anything, passion can lead to hard work, passion can lead to any of the other traits, if you don't have passion you won't have success

2. The 2nd reason I picked passion is because usually you can do anything you want or you can imagine, Passion is a synonym FOR success.

How I will use passion in school is if I am stuck on a hard question if I have passion to try and solve the really hard question I will be inspired to try really hard and try and solve the problem.

How I will use it in sports is pretty much the same thing, if my team gets down in a game if I have passion for the game I will notice that the game is not over until the final point is scored or the last second runs out, so I will be inspired by my passion to try my best and give it my all.

"This will all happen if you have passion" - Noah B) !

Logan

12/13/2015 03:44:09 pm

after watching this video I feel motivated to do something that i am not the best at. Out of the 8 traits to be I choose improve.

1. To improve on my skiing at my cottage because I want to be a good skier like my dad. My dad is the second best skier on the lake so I want him to teach me how cut and do the one hand cut on the one ski. If my dad can teach me how to ski when the boat is going fast and that is how you can get a bigger cut on the lake.

2.I also want to improve my lacrosse skills by getting faster and improving my shot and to improve my goalie skills in fleid lacrosse by improving my passes or my saves. I can also improve that by work on my passes in this mouth because it isn't that cold and my dad can throw the lacrosse balls in corner s to improve my saves.

If I do this trait ''improve'' I will become good at stuff that i am okay at
-Logan

Vib

12/14/2015 04:41:19 am

I have trouble defending myself during karate cause i don't foucas.I focus on atacking so now try hard and focus to defend myself.

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