However, it does take a superior person to actually recognize those opportunities. Superior people have the ability to adapt quickly. After you recognize an opportunity, you must adapt quickly to your new circumstances in order to reap your reward. This concept is abstract and, therefore, difficult to explain, but think of it as having the ability to mentally prepare yourself for any undertaking. The more situations to which you can adapt yourself, the greater your possible achievements.
Superior people have the ability to influence people.
This characteristic, by far, is the most important of the four. In order to have your ideas and desires implemented, you must be able to convince people that they will benefit from following you. Regardless of your abilities in the first three characteristics, you will accomplish very little without the cooperation of other people. Well, there you have my brief discourse on what it takes to be a superior person. Naturally, I could have written an entire book on the subject, but I kept it short for the purposes of this newsletter.