Arnold Schwarzenegger's Six Rules of Success

Arnold Schwarzenegger was repeatedly told “you can’t” as he tried to achieve his goals in life, but he managed to shove away the doubt and the distractions of all the naysayers. He became a bodybuilder, succeeded as an entrepreneur, became a movie star, and the governor of California. Many people have asked him, “How did you do it”? His answer comes to him with very little effort. He succeeded because he believed he could accomplish his goals, and he fought tooth and nail to prove to anyone who told him he couldn’t. His commencement address to the graduating class at the University of Southern California is dubbed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s six rules of Success.

Trust yourself

You have to trust yourself. You have to understand what you want and not what your teacher, mother, father or friends want you to do.

(Arnold knew from an early age he wanted to be the greatest bodybuilder of all time. His parents wanted him to be a police officer, marry a girl named Heidi, have loads of children and live on a mountain like the von Trapp family in “The Sound of Music”. Arnold, needless to say, wanted to get out of Austria, go to America and be a champion. He trusted himself, created a vision of what he wanted to achieve and went after it.)

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