20 COMMON HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL ARCHITECTS

Architecture is one great profession that is certainly not meant for the weak in heart or for the ones who easily give up, it is a profession that embraces courageous people who love to dare and face more challenges no matter the level of the risk involved. To be a successful architect entails a lot, it involves doing things that transcend normal routine of work and just wishing for a day when you will make great buildings. It involves having some habits that makes success a friend and not an alien. Most successful Architects over time have been able to develop some habits

that makes success looks like as if it is their birthright, these architects are not just good in doing what they love doing, they have developed successful habits that makes things work for them. They do things in some particular ways and these makes you find traces of their successful works everywhere you go.

These habits are common to most of them all, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Norman Foster, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, David Adler, Phillip Johnson, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid,Tom Wright,to all the great architects not mentioned, you will certainly find one or more of these habits in them.

(1)    Make mistakes but find right ways to deal with them

(2)    Love to meet creative people

(3)    Nothing get them to stop until they achieve their aims

(4)    They are positive about life and believe in success itself

(5)    Accept responsibilities for their actions

(6)    Seek out opportunities and they don’t wait for it

(7)    Difficult things never get them scared

(8)    When stuck, they make out ways

(9)    Love to help

(10)They wants to be good rather than consider them as interesting

(11)Giving up is never an option for them

(12)Procrastination is never a friend

(13)Indecision is not part of their dictionary

(14)They love nature

(15)Knows they are not perfect

(16)They have a unique perspective about life and architecture

(17)They are grateful minds

(18)They love to challenge norms

(19)They don’t subscribe to one way thinking

(20)Behind every of their actions, there is a force tending them towards making the world a better place.

To join the train of successful architects, you might need to subscribe to one or more of these common habits that makes success possible.

Feel free to add any other common habits of successful architects you know.

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