Highly Successful People Have The Same Habits: One Of Them Is 'Mental Time Travel'

Highly successful people share a lot of the same habits. Here's a look at some of the most common things successful people do every day, according to CNBC. 

Seek Discomfort: Those who learn how to handle uncomfortable situations grow faster than those who don't. 

"If you want to get it right, it has to feel wrong first," the report states.

Budgeting For Mistakes: Mistakes promote growth. By encouraging yourself to make mistakes, you worry less and improve faster. 

Advice Over Feedback: Seeking out advice is allowing yourself to be coachable. Feedback is backward-looking, whereas advice is forward-looking. Actively searching for ways to improve can lead to success.

You still need to decide which sources hold weight. Figure out which advice is worth absorbing and which should be filtered out. 

Be Excellent, Not Perfect: You don't need to get rid of every little problem to make progress, you just need to maintain high standards. 

"Identify some shortcomings that you can accept. Consider where you truly need the best and where you can settle for good enough," the report states.

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Be Your Own Judge: Don't worry about disappointing others if you know you are satisfied with what you are doing. As long as you are truly proud of your work, you shouldn't worry too much about what others think. 

Find Joy In The Daily Grind: Make your daily work fun by creating challenges for yourself that you enjoy tackling. You can use games and other fun methods to build skills.

Go Back To Go Forward: If you run into a wall, stop and move back instead of wasting time trying to break through. The only route forward is often in a rear-view mirror. Successful individuals often engage in "mental time travel." If you are struggling to see progress, take a look back at the steps you took along the way and how far you've come.

Preach What You Practice: The best way to learn new skills is to teach those skills. If you explain something to someone, you often come away from the conversation with a better understanding. This is another way to make daily tasks aimed at skill-building more enjoyable. 

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This story is part of a new series of features on the subject of success, Benzinga Inspire.

This illustration was generated using artificial intelligence via MidJourney.