How to succeed at everything you do

April 6, 2014 Sorin Adam Matei

Failure is a gift from the gods, who want us to earn the privilege of success. Yet, those that fail too many times the first time they try something should change their approach. They should consider the following suggestions:

You have no clue what is required to be successful in this context
Your timing for completing this task is completely wrong
Your general knowledge is not sufficient to grasp the nature of the task to begin with
You are barking at the wrong tree and want to be that which you can never be

Remember master Yoda…

Photo by Nils van der Burg

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

Sorin Adam Matei

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