Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Almost nobody is talented. Talent is completely overrated. I would argue that you were born with certain physical talents that enabled you to excel in sports, that I could never have acquired no matter how hard I tried.

Even that said though, Larry Bird was not born with the kind of talent that Michael Jordan was.

Larry Bird just grounded out. with the kind of talent that Michael Jordan was,

Larry Bird just grounded out and shot more practice shots

than anybody else.

That's a skill.

Talent is a betrayal.

It is undermining all of the people who put all that work into skill.

Don't call someone skillful talented because they're not. They're skillful. So we can

agree that playing the piano is a skill

in the sense that if you work out it, you get better at it.

But I would like to believe that being enthusiastic is a skill.

And then so is being creative. It's a skill and then so as being creative it's a skill you can get better at it you

can choose to put in the work we in whatever form it takes we're not talking

about graphic art here unless you want it to be graphic art,

to gain the skill.

And if that's true, that's really good news, because it means you're not stuck where you are, it means you can go to where you want to go and

it's really good news because skills can be acquired and that fills me with

optimism about so many things in our world.

You know, we can point to the human condition and say people are just doomed to hate each

other and to undercut each other.

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