8 Cheap Ways to Become Famous without Killing Anyone.
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To be clear about what success is must be the first step to achieving success. So far, the best definition I have come across is: “Success is the completion of anything intended.” In other words success is finishing what you planned to do.
There are ways to become famous that don’t require spending a bunch of money – or killing anyone. It is easy enough to become famous but it is a bit harder to become famous for positive reasons. Avoid the negative ways of doing this such as jumping off a building. The challenge is to engage the media with a solid something.
Even robbing a bank is a kind of success if that is what you wished to do. However, you probably did not intend to end up in prison!
We came up with eight positive ways to pull this off. You might come up with some more to add to this list. Let us know if you do.
Is there a way you can become number one in the world at anything?
The above definition of success shines a light on failure and success. Make a plan and follow it and you will have succeeded. Make a plan and do not follow it and you will have failed.
Opening up the Guinness Book of World Records and looking for a category might work for some people. But this won’t work for everyone. Being first at something will often work. Being the best at something works just as well. Becoming the worst in the world at anything works great too.
This gives a yard stick for judging every day of our lives. We can say at the end of the day “I have failed” or “I have succeeded.”
The whole point is to find some way to stand out and be different. There also needs to be media around – the more people it accesses, the better. Getting on a reality television show is currently a quick way to do it for some people. Here are the eight ways we came up with:
This may seem very obvious but it is amazing that only about 85% of the human race end up doing what they intended.
- Being the best at something. Obtain a copy of the Guinness book and pick something that is free. Then work at it. But keep in mind that this category is a tough one because it involves actually becoming really good at something.
- Being the first to do something. Trying something new in a conservative setting counts and has become popular lately. In other words, it only needs to be perceived as first. Roger Bannister was the first person to break the 4 minute mile in 1954 and many people still recognize his name. Most competitive runners these days can surpass that.
- Being the worst at something. William Hung has made it by consistently performing really bad Ricky Martin impersonations. Being a bad driver is one thing but the British have taken it to the extreme by creating a television program on this concept that has become globally franchised.
- Being radically different. Mahatma Gandhi was the most unlawyer-like lawyer around in his day. This can involve either breaking or living a stereotype.
- Doing something generous that most people wouldn’t. This is a popular one for volunteers going out to raise awareness for a cause. People who go on long walks or runs across their countries figured this one out in spades.
- Being in the right place at the right time and doing the right thing. Saving a life fits the bill well. In January, Wesley Autrey saved a man who fell onto the New York subway tracks. He was a 50 year old construction worker who was taking his two young daughters home before work and saw the man fall while the train was coming. He made a split second decision, then leapt in and was able to hold the man flat between the rails while the train rolled over them. They were both bruised but okay afterward. Wesley was all over the news and was a guest on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show.
- Blowing the whistle or uncovering a scandal. Erin Brokovich was a unknown paralegal who uncovered a major scandal in which a big utility company in Barstow, California was leaching toxins into the environment that killed many people. She was instrumental in winning a huge lawsuit that also resulted in a feature movie being made about the story.
- Getting a lucky strike. Winning a big lottery is an obvious one that people can relate to judging from sales of lottery tickets. But this one doesn’t count if you need to buy the lottery ticket! Picking the right parents is another good one for some people.
I asked several people what they thought success was. One person said that “Success is making loads of money.” Another said that success is “Achieving your goals”. Some one else said that success is “Fulfilling your potential”. An interesting answer was that success is “Making others jealous”.
Brian Tracy agrees with the connection between success and goals. He has said “Success is goals, and all else is commentary.” Tracy believes that people with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them.
Stuart Goldsmith in “The Midas Method” has an important section on how to set goals so that they are achieved using the full power of the subconscious mind.
Maria Nemeth gives this definition of success: “Doing what you said you would do, with ease”.
“Doing what you said you would do” is currently not achieved by the majority of the human race especially politicians! Doing it with ease is achieved by even fewer and requires making the most of the subconscious mind.
Jim Rohn argues that success is just a few simple disciplines practised daily. The power of daily discipline is HUGE. Because the discipline is practised daily the effect is cumulative. The good practice is carried out 365 times a year with, perhaps, a few lapses.
It cannot fail to have tremendous influence. Once the discipline becomes a daily habit, it can be forgotten about until the rewards start coming in. The writer who writes every day has written well over 300 pages by the end of the year. If he or she does not write every day they lose momentum and inspiration. If they keep up the writing (even just a few words a day) a magnet for relevant thoughts develops.
Recently a Liverpool student of American media studies applied for 600 jobs and received only one interview which he failed. He decided to write a novel. He determined to complete ten pages a day. He worked in the evenings at a dead end job to make money and then wrote until about 5 in the morning at his novel which has now become famous. It also looks like becoming a Hollywood blockbuster film.
You need to ask yourself, why do you want to become famous? Before you go out and kill yourself putting in a lot of effort, maybe consider if fame is something you really want to achieve.
He points out that if you write only one page a day for 100 days you can write a screen play. He wrote his novel by studying the structure of two other novels and noticing how they were structured and wrote his screenplay after studying video of films and noticing how long each scene lasted before there was a change… [read more]
If you look at some of these above examples, it seems these people, except for maybe William Hung, were not trying to achieve fame. That is part of the magic.
Source: www.lifehack.org
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