Can become successful without talent
Inspiration / / December 26, 2019
Most of us think that people who have achieved outstanding success, were endowed with innate abilities. I have long been interested in this issue. Give him a decent answer alone was impossible, because only a person who has achieved incredible success, could answer it.
So I decided to read the book Mastery Robert Green, in which he provides an answer to the question of how great men have achieved success. If you speak English, I would highly recommend it to reading; if not, then about the most important I explain below.
Darwin and his genius brother
In the first chapters of the Green talks about a global study conducted in the United States. For a long period of time, researchers have observed dozens of children who exhibit an exceptional ability to any business at an early age. Only a few of them then succeed.
Take, for example, Charles Darwin, about which they know almost everything. It turns out that the famous scientist, who advanced the theory of evolution, was a younger cousin Francis Galton
. Galton childhood surprised everyone with their extraordinary abilities. He began to read from two years, learned to write to three years, and then, as an adult, has achieved considerable success in scientific activity.Unlike Galton Darwin in childhood showed no ability and no time received reprimands for poor academic performance in college. Eventually he graduated from college with a very mediocre certificate. One reason for this was that Darwin was absolutely not interested in learning subjects that he taught.
So, we have Galton, who was a little genius, and Darwin, who with difficulty graduated from college. About whom are now everyone knows?
Recipe for success
I am sure that you have at least once in his life had the feeling, when you started to do something, and to understand: 'This is it. It `s that, I want to do all my lifeยป. This feeling is to be believed. It is the inner voice that tells you the right way. For example, Leonardo da Vinci woke up feeling at that moment, when he stole the paper from the table and his father went to the forest to paint nature.
Where to begin?
If you have already experienced it, it's time to move on. The next step is that you need to learn. A lot to learn. You have to be so cool in his favorite reality that all actions must be brought to automaticity. To do this, you need not only theoretical knowledge but also experience. That is why at the beginning of the path between the money and the experience is better to choose the latter.
For example, known boxer Freddy Roach faced with the same problem. Choosing between paid work and free coaching in a boxing club, he preferred the second is to use this time to improve their skills. Later, his decision paid off with interest, because of his fights he earned ten times more money than in the years of low-wage jobs.
Charles Darwin rejected the medical school proposal and gave up well-paid job in the church. Instead, he went to work for free on the ship HMS Beagle, to have the opportunity to study exotic species of plants and animals. Research that he has done in a way that helped him later to formulate his famous theory of evolution.
Choosing between money and experience, better to prefer the latter. This will provide an opportunity to obtain the necessary knowledge and develop skills. Over time, if you do everything right, it will pay off with a vengeance.
The importance of a mentor
However, the problem lies in the fact that you do not always know what you teach. You can walk like a blind kitten, not knowing where you are going. That is why it is so important to find a mentor.
Mentor - a person who will give you a very important thing - direction. It will show which way you need to develop and how to use your time as efficiently as possible. What is the use of this mentor?
Firstly, people who have achieved some success, move on to the next level of development - they want to teach and share their experience others. Secondly, the mentor sees in you a young version of himself, because all of us were once newcomers, and perhaps your mentor also had a mentor and now fills your karma.
Like many other outstanding people, you need to find a mentor, but your main goal - to beat him.
What's next
You learned the favorite business, become a professional in it, find a mentor and learn from him all that could be learned. What to do next? Now it's your time.
You must bring in a favorite thing for something new.
The hardest part is that most of us think like everyone else. We do not have enough children's naivety and curiosity.
Do not be afraid to ask questions and be open to everything.
You may find the solution of even the simplest problems, which no one would have thought before.
conclusion
Summing up:
- Find a favorite cause.
- Forget about the talent, hard work above all else.
- Do not run after money. First, you need experience.
- Seek out a mentor who can guide you.
- Bring in a favorite thing for something new. Do not be afraid to break the rules and ask questions.