The story goes that this kid shows up to buds and it's his turn to swim.

So he jumps in the pool to swim.

And when he jumps to the pool, he immediately sinks right to the bottom of the pool.

And he starts walking across the bottom to one end and then walks across the bottom back to the other end.

He comes up.

He's gasping for air, almost drowning.

And the instructor looks and says, what the hell are you doing?

And the kid looks at the instructor and says, I'm sorry, instructor, I don't know how to swim.

So the instructor pauses for a second. Looks like the kid says, that's okay, we can teach you how to swim. Right. And just because the instructor knew that if this kid had those innate qualities, right,

he had the balls to show up to Navy seal training and didn't know how to swim, right? He had everything we needed to teach him.

Teaching him to swim was the easy He had everything we needed to teach him.

Teaching him to swim was the easy part.

So the thesis was let's separate these attributes from skills.

And these attributes are driving performance.

These attributes are in the background.

Skills are visible. They're tangible.

They direct how we, they tell us what to do in known environments.

We learn them. We're not born with them. They're not innate. And because they're visible,

they're very easy to measure. Whereas attributes, on the other hand, attributes are more innate.

You know, we're all born with levels of adaptability of situational awareness of perseverance.

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