Greatness is Created (from scratch, after much hard work)
I don’t normally include whole posts from other folks, but when I do, it’s generally from Seth Godin (Steve Chandler being the other common exception) (and this one is short… ).
The below reminds me of Carol Dweck‘s amazing work on Mindset.
According to Dweck there are some who believe that the gifts and talents you are born with are all you have (Fixed mindset) and that others say that we can grow our skills, abilities and capacity through intelligent and focused hard work (Growth mindset).
Thankfully, there is significant and compelling evidence for the latter.
But back to Seth’s post…
Take a minute, or 20, to really consider Seth’s brilliant and succinct words:
Actually, it goes the other way
Wouldn’t it be great to be gifted? In fact…
It turns out that choices lead to habits.
Habits become talents.
Talents are labeled gifts.
You’re not born this way, you get this way.