This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.

Welcome, everyone. I'm Kevin Miller and this is the Ziegler show.

Inspired by the grandfather of Inspiration himselfig Zig Zig Zigler.

Our focus here is you and your personal development.

The way to have more tomorrow is to become more today.

So we bring you the best of today's world influencers and their unique messages and discover

how we can all apply new and classic methodologies of personal growth to our lives.

In this episode, the focus is the fallacy of being a natural. I mean truthfully don't you

assume naturally assume people who are the best at what they do or just you know natural is at it it came easy to some

degree yet we have so many stories of people who had no natural ability and

performed at a very low level but train themselves up into a level of expertise even mastery.

I mean in a stark example we have someone like James Earl Jones with one of the most recognized

voices in the entire world who was almost mute as a child

for eight years thanks to a severe stutter and they didn't think you'd ever speak well.

And not on that drastic a note, but in this show I bring you a message from Zig Zigler explaining

his desire to enter sales solely due to a financial incentive and had to talk the company into hiring him.

They didn't think he would be a good salesperson and he spent the next two years, he says,

proving that they were right and languishing as a very poor salesman.

It's an entertaining story of course, but it really puts into perspective the reality

that often the masters did not start off with some advantage.

They simply applied themselves, learned, and trained, which opens the doors for all of us to pursue,

even those things that may not initially come naturally we may even

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