PART ONE

The Three Pillars of Success

One aspect of success is more important than any other. As a student, you are perfectly poised to learn it early and make it the foundation for the rest of your life. Intentionally cultivating the mindset of a successful person is the number one most important thing you can do right now. Nothing will have as big an impact on your success as practicing and implementing the intentions, habits, and perspectives of successful people.

This book will teach you many tools to help you manage your time and prioritize. Putting even one of the tools in this book into practice will increase your productivity immensely. But if you cultivate the mindset of a successful person, every tool you use will have an exponentially greater impact.

I have spent my whole career studying the best, most successful people in the world, and I have discovered that a successful person’s mindset is built on three pillars: a successful person has self-esteem, takes personal responsibility for his or her life and actions, and is relentlessly goal oriented. If you can adopt these three approaches to your studies, nothing can stop you from achieving everything you aspire to in life.