William Vanderbloemen

Here's just one. The habit is called the curious. The top performers are always more interested in others than they are in themselves. Here's the quick life hack. If you want to be interesting to people, then start being interested in those people.

Here's just one. The habit is called the curious. The top performers are always more interested in others than they are in themselves. Here's the quick life hack. If you want to be interesting to people, then start being interested in those people.

Here's just one. The habit is called the curious. The top performers are always more interested in others than they are in themselves. Here's the quick life hack. If you want to be interesting to people, then start being interested in those people.

Thanks, Mike. I really appreciate you having me on.

Thanks, Mike. I really appreciate you having me on.

Thanks, Mike. I really appreciate you having me on.

Mike, what a good question. You said everybody's got advice and opinion. I don't know that you want to hear my advice or opinion. However... I do have data. And we have studied, we're an executive search firm, so we help people, we help companies find their top talent.

Mike, what a good question. You said everybody's got advice and opinion. I don't know that you want to hear my advice or opinion. However... I do have data. And we have studied, we're an executive search firm, so we help people, we help companies find their top talent.

Mike, what a good question. You said everybody's got advice and opinion. I don't know that you want to hear my advice or opinion. However... I do have data. And we have studied, we're an executive search firm, so we help people, we help companies find their top talent.

And we interviewed the very best, we've interviewed lots and lots and lots of people, but we found the very best, the top 1% of everybody we've interviewed, and that's for all kinds of jobs. And that's 30,000 people in that 1%. And we just asked the question, do these people have anything in common? And the answer was yes.

And we interviewed the very best, we've interviewed lots and lots and lots of people, but we found the very best, the top 1% of everybody we've interviewed, and that's for all kinds of jobs. And that's 30,000 people in that 1%. And we just asked the question, do these people have anything in common? And the answer was yes.

And we interviewed the very best, we've interviewed lots and lots and lots of people, but we found the very best, the top 1% of everybody we've interviewed, and that's for all kinds of jobs. And that's 30,000 people in that 1%. And we just asked the question, do these people have anything in common? And the answer was yes.

And so we did like empirical research to say, well, then what do they have in common? And the answer was exactly not what I thought it would be.

And so we did like empirical research to say, well, then what do they have in common? And the answer was exactly not what I thought it would be.

And so we did like empirical research to say, well, then what do they have in common? And the answer was exactly not what I thought it would be.

But it did give us a roadmap for saying, oh, here's how people can get ahead, how they can stand out in a really crowded world, how they can be that exception to the rule in whatever they do, whether they're a student or a custodian or a leader, whatever they're spending their day doing.

But it did give us a roadmap for saying, oh, here's how people can get ahead, how they can stand out in a really crowded world, how they can be that exception to the rule in whatever they do, whether they're a student or a custodian or a leader, whatever they're spending their day doing.

But it did give us a roadmap for saying, oh, here's how people can get ahead, how they can stand out in a really crowded world, how they can be that exception to the rule in whatever they do, whether they're a student or a custodian or a leader, whatever they're spending their day doing.

and what is that and what is that yeah so yeah we found so i thought mike that you know what are the best of the best have in common i figured it would be they're all over six feet tall and have fabulous hair and teeth and you know super high iqs and uh went to all the right schools it was none of that it was 12 habits that they had in common and all of those habits are really fundamentally

and what is that and what is that yeah so yeah we found so i thought mike that you know what are the best of the best have in common i figured it would be they're all over six feet tall and have fabulous hair and teeth and you know super high iqs and uh went to all the right schools it was none of that it was 12 habits that they had in common and all of those habits are really fundamentally