Minisode Monday #40 | Skill vs. Talent

The Art of Charm

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🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

If something can be learned, it is a skill. If it's innate, it's a talent. The reality: most so-called talents are skills in disguise, so stop making excuses that you're not talented enough to do things and skill up! Welcome to Minisode Monday, where we kick off the week with something quick and actionable -- to make you more magnetic and effective -- that you can implement right away. Let's get to it! The Cheat Sheet: The concept of "talent" is overrated. If something can be learned, it is a skill. If it's innate, it's a talent. A lot of so-called talents are really skills in disguise. If even one person can learn something through study, coaching, and effort, it's learnable -- therefore, a skill. Next time you put off an activity because you think you're not "talented" enough, try to determine if you're just using it as an excuse. Maybe you avoid shooting hoops with your coworkers on lunch break because you think they're all so much more talented than you. While it might be true that you suck at basketball, it's a skill you can improve with practice. If you want to learn the skill of systematically attacking belief systems, building confidence, and forming personal and professional relationships we invite you to take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text CHARMED to 33444. Also be sure to check out our Social Capital Intensive here! Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response or write to Jordan directly: jordan@theartofcharm.com (he actually reads everything)! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/mm40/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jordan Harbinger here and welcome to Mini-Sode Monday.
0:03.2	Happy to be here with you kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that
0:06.8	you can implement right away that will make you more magnetic and effective.
0:10.7	Today I want to talk about skill versus talent.
0:13.6	I went to a conference with other entrepreneurs recently, I go to those all the time actually,
0:18.0	and one of the discussions that came out of it was the idea of skills versus talent and
0:23.0	lots of folks, including myself, think talent is overrated to say the least.
0:28.2	And how there's even entire books about this concept, the authors of whom have of course
0:33.0	been interviewed here on the Art of Charm Podcast.
0:35.2	And this is a complex topic.
0:38.1	But the bottom line is that if something can be learned, then it is a skill.
0:43.3	If it's something innate, it's a talent.
0:45.8	And there's no surprise there, right?
0:46.9	I mean, the thing is during this conversation, once we started labeling skills and talents,
0:52.5	we started to realize that pretty much everything that was really important was a skill.
0:57.6	We also found out that a lot of the things that we thought were talents were also just
1:02.0	skills.
1:03.0	After all, if even one person is able to learn it through study, coaching, and effort,
1:08.0	it's learnable.
1:09.0	And I know what you're thinking and you're probably right.
1:10.9	It is totally possible that talented people might be better at learning certain skills.
1:15.6	Then again, what if you're not right?
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