Child’s Play: Success is Social, Silly!

Fact: you can do your job perfectly and still come up short in the “satisfying career” category—or even the “satisfying job” category.

Why?

Because doing your job well is only 1/3 of what it takes to be successful. Doing your job is table stakes for inclusion in that cluster of people known collectively as “employed.”

Success takes something more.

But what?

Let’s ask Elle… something tells me she might have an idea:

This is critically important. Until you wrap your head around what it takes to succeed and shift your perspective accordingly, you’re doomed to a life of petty drama.

This concept is important enough that I wrote an entire career book about it—starting with the idea of internalizing your source of success (because let’s face it, if other kids at the lunch table can dictate what “cool” is, you’ll always be chasing and never be in control), and then moving on to how you integrate that internalized definition of success with what you do every day at your job.

Take a look—you’ll be amazed at how smart you already are, and how much about leadership, success, and life you already learned… in school.

Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.