What distinguishes experts from dropouts and amateurs?
Drill. Persistence.
How experts become experts? Through hard work and practice. So where do you stand? To make things easy for you, let me show you a graph by Creating Passionate Users. Now where do you find yourself?
It was a lightening jolt for me when I saw that graph for the first time. It makes you think about your attitude towards important things in life. It reminds you to keep working on improving yourself and excel in every aspect of life, something which I was forgetting gradually.
It is so easy to get trapped in that comfort zone where you can get your work done in a suboptimal way. Once you are satisfied with what you know and where you are, you become stagnant. And that’s where experts get ahead of you.
Do you think you are too old to learn anything now? Or you think you just can’t do it? Well, then you are putting limits on yourself. Remember it is never too late to become an expert.
Strive to be the best.
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“They don’t want to suck again. But that means they’ll never get past the kick-ass threshold where there’s a much greater chance they’ll become passionate about it.”
That was such a great post you linked to. I love the line above – it explains a lot. People don’t want to risk being horrible at something new so they avoid it. As a result they stay in the mediocre zone! No risk – no reward!
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