Success Factor: Lessons from High Achievers w/Ruth Gotian

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and recently won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement “Radar” Award, ranking her the #1 emerging management thinker in the world to bridge theory and practice. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. Her research is about the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions, which she writes about in her book, The Success Factor.

What does success look like for you and how would you define success? Certainly not the same as everyone else's but according to my guest, Dr. Ruth Gotian, she defined success as 'someone who moves the needle in their field.' She spent years researching the world's most successful people- including medical superstars like Dr. Anthony Fauci, astronaut Nicole Stott, NBA Champion Steve Kerr, and several Nobel Prize winners.

In this podcast, Dr. Gotian shares the details of her many years of researching the world's most successful people- including medical superstars like Dr. Anthony Fauci, astronaut Nicole Stott, NBA Champion Steve Kerr, and several Nobel Prize winners. 

She defined success as 'someone who moves the needle in their field' and there are four mindsets (not habits) common to all these high achievers.  These are

1.  Intrinsic motivation
2. Work ethic
3. Strong foundation, and 
4. Continuous Learning through informal learning. 

We also talked about the following:

• Experiences that most shaped who Dr. Ruth Gotian is today
• The myths and misconceptions about success 
• Whether success is for everyone
• Whether success is learnable
• Ways To Redefine Success Now

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