How doing 7 ordinary things can lead to extraordinary results

Stuart Forrest

In business, to be a success does not mean you have to be an extraordinary person. The truth, it turns out, is that you can actually achieve great success by doing seven very ordinary things.

For Triggerfish CEO, Stuart Forrest, this is a proven fact because by his own admission he is “very ordinary”. Triggerfish Animation, a Cape Town based film and entertainment company, is the producer of the animated feature films “Adventures in Zambezia” and “Khumba”.

Speaking at this year’s Net Prophet tech conference, the animation producer outlined seven very ordinary things that could lead to extraordinary success.

What do you want to do when you grow up?

Forrest talks about thinking about your dreams as a child and looking at the lessons you learnt when growing up. He calls this: “things we learnt in kindergarten”. His story, he says, comes from playing with his father’s stop-motion camera and realising that by collecting multiple images he could animate them. So what do you want to be when you grow up?

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