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It’s Not Rocket Science
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It’s Not Rocket Science

7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success

Perigee, 2015 更多详情

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Concrete Examples
  • Inspiring

Recommendation

Rocket scientist and virtual reality entrepreneur Mary Spio grew up poor in Ghana and immigrated to the United States alone at age 16. After high school, she moved to Brooklyn and found a job at McDonald’s. With work, struggle and study, she became a deep space engineer at Boeing and started a virtual reality company. Spio explains how you, too, can become a “Game Changer.” She identifies seven major traits that people with world changing achievements share: “creativity, passion, compassion, focus, hustle, audacity and tenacity.” Spio’s case histories of successful people encourage you to follow your dreams with practical action. getAbstract recommends her advice to anyone who needs a shot of upbeat energy.

Take-Aways

  • Born in New York but raised in Ghana, Mary Spio came back to the US at age 16 with no money and rose from working at McDonald’s to become a deep space engineer.
  • She identifies seven traits of successful “Game Changers,” people who change the world:
  • “Unbridled creativity” – They are energized by curiosity and imagination.

About the Author

Mary Spio grew up in Ghana and had never seen a computer until she was 17 years old. A former Boeing deep space engineer, she is CEO of CEEK VR, a blockchain based virtual reality company.


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