25 Traits of Highly Talented People

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How do you define talent?

Is it a combination of physical traits that allows an advantage over competitors? Is it God-given innate talent and gifts given to the rare few that allow potential to meet performance? Are people just born with talent, while the rest of us have no hope?

Matt dissects this idea of “talent” in today’s episode and what he has learned by working with some of the best endurance athletes in the world, as well as many CEOs and business leaders.

All of them are gifted, yes, but the talent to create greatness goes well beyond their mathematical skills or the size of their lungs.

Quite simply, talented people, and the ability to be great over a long period of time, are fueled by the optimal use of their gifts. They convert potential into performance with longevity.

This is where real talent lies.

The greatest performers in sport, business, and life have similar aligned traits that facilitate greatness, and these traits are the key ingredients in a recipe that enable them to stay in the high-achieving performance zone as long as possible.

What are these traits? What is the magic recipe? Matt goes into depth so that you, too, can learn what talent means to in order to enhance or improve your own performance journey.

You're in control of maximizing your performance potential.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.6	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.4	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
0:19.9	Hello once again to the Purple Patch podcast and yes this is Matt Dixon, your host.
0:25.6	And let me start with something about talent.
0:28.8	In work, in life, in fitness and sport.
0:32.3	What does it take to be great?
0:34.8	Your version of great.
0:36.8	Not just in a flash, but sustainable greatness over a long term.
0:42.2	Well, I think that the lazy just put it down to that word talent or being gifted.
0:47.7	The world champion in chess must be just super smart. The tech entrepreneur must have special
0:53.3	mathematical brains. The best athlete has some
0:56.5	god-given physiology. Sure, they might have these gifts. But is that the thing that allows
1:02.7	potential to meet performance? I don't think so. Today, we're going to dissect talent, and I'm going to
1:10.1	discuss what I've learned working
1:11.8	with some of the best endurance athletes in the world, as well as many of the leading CEOs
1:16.4	and business leaders.
1:17.9	All of them are gifted, but the talent to create greatness goes well beyond their mathematical
1:24.0	skills or the size of their lungs.
1:26.2	For me, talent is often hiding in surprising
1:29.2	places and you can learn from this and apply it to your own performance journey. What is talent? Who
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