What Causes a Person to Succeed
or Fail?
Kevin Hogan
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President Clinton is a left-handed man.
I thought, "Whoa!" I tried that, and I thought, "I wonder what it would
have been like if Mom would've pointed at me with her left hand and
tried to be angry." Then I tried to do that. Go ahead and do this right now,
unless you're driving-don't do this if you're driving.
Then I thought, "Wait a second!
You can't fervently deny something with your opposite hand."
I called Rita back and I said, "Rita, you can say that Kevin
Hogan says that indeed President Clinton did indeed have an affair
with that woman, the office intern....."
Thank goodness it was right. If it had been wrong, if it had been wrong, then
you need another thing to do because you're out of a job. Being
intelligent and talented is only as good as being right on a big one.
People will remember you for being right on the big ones until you
really screw up big.
Then they realize you're just an astrologer. I think I'm pretty good
at body language. The fact is I could be just lucky right now. I could
be lucky; I could've just gotten a lot of these things right because of
randomness. I've learned never to give myself too much
credit for anything in life.
Just in case, I want to keep learning about things that are cool,
exciting, and fun so I didn't let it stop at nonverbal communication in
college.
I was also interested in rhetoric, which, of course, is a dirty word nowadays.
It's too complicated to hear Aristotle and all that stuff. At least with
persuasion influence and all those kinds, it's much more
interesting and people like to learn that stuff. We talk about all
that now. If that ever went wrong, that would be a shame. Let me
ask you a question, Ric. Where did you grow up?
Ric Thompson: I grew up in Florida, South Florida, as a matter of
fact.
Kevin Hogan: South Florida. What kind of an income level were you at
when you grew up?
Ric Thompson: Middle-class income. I'd say $50,000 to $60,000 a year
from my Dad, I'd guess.
Kevin Hogan: That's pretty good. To be at that level and to grow up
in that, that's a pretty normal and good kind of life.
Ric Thompson: That was more like a high-school level. I'm not sure
what he was when I was younger because we never talked about money,
business, jobs, or any of that type of stuff.
Kevin Hogan: Exactly. Now here's something that's worth pausing and
thinking about. There are a lot of people listening to this call who probably grew
up like you, and there are a lot who probably grew up like I did. I grew up on the
North side of Chicago in a little tiny house, with a little TV, and a little living space.
There were seven people, and then my step-dad died and then there were six,
Mom and five kids.
She didn't have a job that was full-time.
She couldn't because she had five kids age 1-11.
She worked for a lady who sold tulips halftime, and she was there.
When your husband dies and you have five kids, life gets challenging.
Life was like that for about five, maybe six, years. It was....challenging.
One of the things that happened to four out of the five of us kids in that family
was we all developed not a belief, but an attitude that no matter what, we
aren't going to be broke when we grow up, no way.
There were no goals;...nobody was thinking, "I want to grow up and be rich."
Having the Boy Scouts bring your turkey dinner to you on
Thanksgiving in 1973 is a really crummy experience. It's so appreciated when
it's there, but it's very embarrassing.
It's very hard to accept that. It's like, "Our family has to take
charity." It's like, "This is not going to be like this." We'll do this for other
people, maybe, when we get older, but we're not going to do this.
None of us had any goals.
We didn't know what we wanted to do. We simply knew what we didn't
want.
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Kevin Hogan
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