Success is more than talent

Success is more than talent

Think about your favorite actor. Think now about your favorite singer. What about the winners in the Olympics Games? What do they all have in common? It is that they are pretty good at doing what they do. As we just see them at their prime, we might think they are geniuses… but they are not! Most of the most successful people in the world are the result of their own effort and this apply for all of us.

Taking my own experience to illustrate this point, to talk to an audience was a difficult task, particularly before a specialized public. I would like to tell you that reading the book “Talking in public for dummies” two or three times is a sure bet for success… but I would be a liar. It does not matter how well you know the theory, the first time you do something is always hard (as it is the second, the third, and so on); and, just through experiencing it several times will make us ‘masters’ on the matter. Therefore, we can say that a ‘master’ is a person who has failed so much than he or she cannot fail once again.

In conclusion, when we see these successful people, we should think not only in what they are now, but also in the way they walked to be there and, why not, try to do the same for ourselves.

 

Luis