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The Most Successful People Are Usually the Most Humble Ones
I have had the chance to come across some really successful people in life and to my surprise, they were all humble, well, almost all.
I used to think that successful people were hard to reach, boastful, arrogant and looked down on others. The kind of people that are too successful or too rich to talk to you, you know what I mean? I don’t know exactly why I used to think like this. Maybe because of some stories I had heard, or the movies I had watched. I am sure that there are still people like the ones I described because I have met a few, but thankfully it is changing, the same way we are changing the concept of “the boss” and moving toward “the leader”.
After meeting some successful people, CEOs, professors, or even the Vice President of AWS Professional Services, I came to the conclusion that the most successful people, the ones who worked hard to achieve what they have, are very open to talking, giving advice, help, and sometimes they will even go the extra mile. I was deeply impressed. I am going to share with you some of my experiences and maybe they will change your mind too regarding this topic.
Last year, I was invited to Amazon Web Services in Munich during “Entrepreneurial Women Night” to give a presentation on a project me and my team were currently working on, whose focus was on the protection of women who feel unsafe walking on the street. We had already developed an app and were presenting it during the meeting. Little did I know in the room was also the Vice President of AWS Professional Services, Todd Weatherby, who had come from the US to visit the headquarters in Munich for some days. He listened to us with great interest and mentioned he had heard of something similar, but could not remember the name, so he texted his daughter to ask her. She replied within a few minutes. The Vice President encouraged us to continue working on our project. He also showed interest in our studies and work. He offered to contact Amazon whenever we needed some help with our project and already decided on a meeting between us and the engineers of Amazon! Since it was women’s night we were talking about difficulties that women feel nowadays and what makes them less courageous to…
