How Running Helped Me Realize How We Limit Passionate Pursuits
Passion seems to be a polarizing topic in business. Is it or is it not important? Is passion all it’s cracked up to be or is it just one of those warm fuzzies that make people feel good down the road to ultimate failure? Is your passion enough? Are we too narrow with our focus on passion? If talent is overrated, is passion overrated too? Do we overstate what role passion plays in our success? That is a question that keeps coming to mind as I think about passion. My initial thought is that you can’t be successful without having some desire behind what you are doing. An example from
What If I Don’t Have Purpose or Talent?
The above question is one of the most heartbreaking questions that I hear out of people’s mouths when I chat with them about Soul Purpose. More often than not, people are convinced that there is nothing unique about them. So do you have purpose or talent? Read on and let’s find out. When something asks me the question of whether they have a purpose or not, I immediately know that they feel this way for 1 of 2 main reasons. The first reason is that they just haven’t spent enough time on personal reflection to find out specific answers to questions about their ability. The second is that we
The Myth of Talent
Talent is a concept that we hear a lot about in our lives. Talent is also an area that can be a sore spot for people as they beat themselves up over a perceived lack of it. For all the talk of talent, there have been some interesting studies on the subject and some good books that have come out recently on whether or not having talent is a myth. Last year I saw an interview on Charlie Rose with Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor at Large for Fortune magazine, who wrote a book titled, Talent is Overrated. In the interview and the book, Mr. Colvin talks about the idea that
Book review: Talent Is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Finished this book last week. As someone who enjoys learning about what makes humans tick, I thought this book offered a fresh perspective of what you need to be successful. Hint: It’s not inherent talent. So what does it take to be successful? It takes identifying what you like to do and then putting in deliberate practice every single day. He gives a ton of great examples of people who have demonstrated this. Geoff Colvin’s research flies straight in the face of the long argued logic that we achieve things
You look good, you have talent
Who doesn’t like to hear words of affirmation? Unfortunately mine only come while looking in the mirror and talking to myself. Enough about me and my personal pity party. What I want to talk to you about is your talent. Utilizing it to the fullest a la Ron Burgundy here, is the way to look good and stand out. This is a great by-product of business ownership. You have the ability to utilize your skills, talents and passions to the utmost and use them to stand out. A couple of months ago I shared the spiritual side of utilizing your talents by sharing the “Parable of Talents” from the Gospel
High Risk=High Returns?
For all the talk about the high amount of risk that is involved with starting and running your own business. There are several key benefits that arise from starting a business. A few of these benefits are as follows; freedom, money, hard work paying off, being more of who you are and who you can be, to name a few. Let’s look at 3 in particular that are particularly relevant in today’s market. They are hard work being rewarded, money and freedom. Imagine busting your tail for a company for years, sacrificing family time, increased stress, innovation of new products and ideas for that company that you aren’t directly paid
