How much talent you have really doesn’t matter. How much time you invest in developing your talent is paramount. If youre a great dancer by nature, that’s good. But to be great you need to invest time into your craft. In what area do you want to be more talented?
Investing?
Public Speaking?
Production?
Web Design?
Sales?
Golf?
Basket Weaving?
If you don’t have a lot of talent in the area, then get busy – it will take massive amounts of time to get there. It will take more time than you think, but less time than you expect. The important thing is to get to work today, right now. Practice, train, study the greats, try, and try some more.
More Talent doesn’t equal more success. More time invested does.Persist through the long and boring hours of repetition that success demands. Get busy.
“There are massive returns to doggedness, the people who achieve the most are often the ones who stick with it when others don’t. . . They show up. They practice and practice and practice some more… …The world is littered with talented people who didn’t persist, who didn’t put in the hours, who gave up too early, who thought they could ride on talent alone.” – Dan Pink
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This game is for the willing. People love to say they will do what it takes but when what it takes shows up they give it a half ass effort. We can be everything and anything if we just were resolute to bring it into being.
Exactly, just look at the Block Standard!
There have been plenty of talented individuals that wasted it because they didn’t put the time in to tune their craft. There is nothing worse than wasted talent. Excellent post.
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