18 July 2015

How Successful People Brush Their Teeth

Are you successful? Did you ever become CEO of a Fortune 100 company that sold a billion smartphones on the North Korean market? Did you ever play bagpipe on the moon? Did you invent cheese?

I thought not. Did you ever ask yourself why? What is it that makes truly successful people different from you?

I am convinced it is that it is in the way they brush their teeth. It is a daily (or at least weekly) task where one can go wrong in so many ways.

The first challenge is the tooth paste. Where should it go? A survey of an unfathomable number of successful business executives showed that a majority of them applied the toothpaste on the bristles. You may have thought that the toothpaste should go in the little hole at the end, but no. That hole is there just to hang the toothbrush on a hook (purchased separately). 

The second question is how to hold the toothbrush. Successful people have a tendency to hold it in the handle end. Hardly any clasped the bristles. 

The third and most crucial bit is where to apply the toothbrush. It turns out that of the people who put it up their nostril, not a single one figured on a list of America's most well paid entrepreneurs. No, you should put it in your mouth. That's what successful people do. 

Then it is just a matter of brushing away, and wait for the first million dollars to arrive at your executive corporate bank account. 

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