The 5 Traits You Need to Dominate Any IndustryGreat people, no matter their field, have similar habits. Learn them and then use them in your own quest to greatness.

If great minds think alike, it stands to reason that great people, no matter their field, have similar habits. In their bookThe Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well, Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield found several common qualities shared by ubersuccessful individuals. Try adopting some of them in your quest for greatness.

1. Self-awareness.Instead of blaming a failure on external factors--the economy, the government, even the weather--those at the top of their game look inward to determine where their own assumptions and biases failed them.