Everybody has the capacity to be excellent at something, and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croxson of Sean Croxson.com.

Thanks for tuning into our Thursday episode. Today's feature speaker is Mr. Brian Tracy. He's been a

speaker on so many stages and the author of so many books. And today Brian is here to remind me and

you and everybody else that we have the capacity to be excellent at something. Here's Brian.

So this is what I learned because I drifted for a long time and even if I did well I would always make excuses because

she's a catch. There's got to be a reason for that. And then I learned two remarkable things.

Remarkable thing number one is that everybody has the capacity to be excellent at something.

Everybody has the capacity to be excellent at something. We are engineered with it. Now you say well what about the hopeless

person who's got down syndrome and is multi crippled and has multiple sclerosis. The weakest form of argument is to

argue from extremes. Whenever you find yourself arguing from extremes you say well I'm obviously mentally defective

because we don't argue from extremes. We look at the 95% main and we put the tails of the distribution

aside for the sake of generating general principles. A general principle is that you drive safely and

carefully on the right hand side and you drive the speed limit and you stop at stop signs and red lights.

You probably won't have any trouble in driving. That's about 95% true. Right? Okay so that's where we keep our minds.

So we know that just about everybody can be excellent at something. But here was the real mind shifter for me.

As I learned that everybody who's in the top 10% started in the bottom 10%. Everybody's at the top start at the bottom.

Everyone who's at the front of the line started at the back of the line. And when I realized that I realized wow you mean all I have to do is find out how people got from the back of the line to the front of the line and do the same things that they did not get the same result.

Yes, it's what Socrates called 425VC, the principle of causality. What we call the love cause and effect.

What it says is that for every effect there's a cause. That we live in a universe governed by law not by chance. If you can define the effect that you want,

you want to be in the top 10% and have all the rewards at a steam and respect and security that goes with it, then you find someone else who started off in the bottom 10%.

Find out what they did, do the same things. And if you do the same things you get the same results. Not a miracle. It's not selective. It's not discriminatory. Anybody can do it.

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