THE MYTH OF TALENT

Conventional wisdom says that it is not enough to dream -- You need talent.

In other words, you either have it or you don’t. And buying into this dead end myth about ourselves is where it goes wrong for many people.

Talent is a set of skills you develop over time through desire. Eleni Menegaki is a perfect example -- Her on-air skills have improved drastically throughout the years.
Unfortunately, talent alone is not enough....

Even when natural ability is discovered and nurtured, it is only good for one thing – altering the length of your learning curve.

So why do we so easily buy into the limiting mythical idea about talent being nothing but a birthright? Fear. The first word most of us learn is no. And from an early age we are programmed to get our rewards by performing as close to flawlessly as possible. So to avoid rejection we absolve ourselves of being responsible for our own creativity by agreeing with the myth.

One other reason we are frozen by the myth of talent is the talented people themselves. The highly talented do not get our attention until their skill level is so high that no trace can be found of the beginner they once were. Their highly evolved skills do seem to come out of nowhere like a magical byproduct of the birthright we have been told about.

So, for all of us untalented people there's still hope.
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