Sunday, July 19, 2020

Talent is not Everything

Hello friends!

Think that you went to a concert and there you saw a very good tabla player playing the tabla on the stage and you are absolutely delighted to the tune of his tabla. After his performance, you have no words to tell how much you liked playing his tabla. We speak to ourselves that "Dude that man is so talented."

But is a talent the reason why a human being is able to perform so well? A study was done on many people where two tunes were heard to people. The first tune was said to be recorded by a talented musician and the second was recorded by a hardworking musician. 66% of the people liked the tune which was recorded by the talented musician, but the truth was that both the tunes were recorded by the same composer. There is a bias in our society from the talent side. We think that the great people who do great things are able to do it because those people are talented. But this is a big lie. Let's know how this is a big lie?.


First of all, we know what is talent?
The meaning of talent in our mind is the same as if a child learns to play the piano at a young age, or a child plays very good cricket or an artist succeeds very soon. But there is only one definition of talent - to learn any work or skill quickly. Like, suppose I and you both joined the same guitar class and both learned to play the guitar at the same time from the same teacher where there was no bias and in such a way if you learn to play the guitar quickly then you will definitely be talented. In talent, only the speed of learning is fast, but does the speed of learning only matter?

                 

I am not saying that talent does not matter to anyone, I am saying to what extent the talent matters. The problem for most people is that if people see others successful, then they only care about the talent because that is the excuse we give us so that we don't feel bad about ourselves. If we speak about someone's talent, then we declare that person has born with talent, then I have an excuse for why I do not know the things that another human being does. We can ignore everything in which we have control and we continue to do the same thing and this causes us to fail.
What does it matter if the talent is not the only one?

Most people believe that if they have talent then definitely they will get success. But the truth is something else, it is an equation like -
                                                     
Talent * Effort = Skill
 Skill * effort = Success

So suppose that you have a little talent in anything like painting and if you are not working hard in it, then nothing will happen from it. 



It's a different matter that you can do a good painting from any ordinary people but will not be successful. But suppose you started working hard on your talent, in such a situation, slowly you have a skill because you have worked hard on it. Here effort counts twice in the equation, which is more important than talent. It depends on our ability how hard we can work, no matter how many thorns come in our way, and this ability is called GRIT.



GRIT means "patience" = passion + perseverance

Passion means what we feel about anything we like to do and perseverance means that how long we stay in anything. The more people have GRIT, the more people will be successful.

How do we know if we have GRIT or not?
First of all, those GRITs are those people who are GRITTY and they have 4 characteristics -
1. Interest and passion
2. Dedicated practice
3. Goal
4. Expect
Now the biggest question comes, can we achieve our GRIT?
Yes, we can achieve GRIT inside us, GRIT is there in all, in some there is more, in some have less. And that GRIT will meet us with interest and passion, dedicated practice, goals and hopes.

1. Interest and Passion - We have to do what we enjoy doing, like suppose you don't like programming at all, no matter how much effort you make, programming for you is going to be very difficult, say It means that we should learn only those what we like to do, then we can become GRITTY.

                 

The passion is not a day's work, it's like a seed, which comes from the heart and constant effort which we have to water that seed in our work.

2. Effort - Effort does not mean that you keep doing the same thing over and over again Effort means trying to learn other things as soon as you are expert in one thing.

3. Goals - You should have a very big goal which covers all your small goals.

 For example - we cannot say that we have to earn 1 crore rupees from public speaking, this was not your big goal.

The biggest goal is that in which you decide that you have to help one million people and they have to cooperate in moving forward. Below this goal you can have small goals like earning lots of money, hiring many people etc. And below these small goals, there may be many other small goals, but the important thing is that all these small goals should move towards that very big goal. It is important for us to identify our very big goal only then we will be able to achieve our GRIT.

4. Hope - People who are GRITTY have hope that they will definitely become successful one day and due to this hope, they keep trying. Even if they are not successful enough, they still keep trying.

               
Most GRITTY people are optimistic. They think that if I have trouble today, it is not necessary that this problem will always be there and some solution will be found out. But at the same time, pessimistic people just keep cursing themselves and their luck, they feel that there is no solution to any problem, only then these people are unable to try to do something right and go into depression.

We have to believe that we can move forward in every area of ​​life and we have to be optimistic and just keep trying in our interest, this will make us GRITTY and help us succeed.




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