Things That Don't Require Talent (Part 1)

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today Mark Cole and Chris Goede begin a new two-part series in which John Maxwell teaches five things that don’t require talent. These are characteristics every growing leader must embrace to get out of what we at Maxwell Leadership call “the people pile.” If you learn these five things, you’ll take your leadership to the next level. Today we’ll talk about points one and two. And next week, we’ll cover three through five.

Key Takeaways:

- Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested

- Look for and plan your teachable moments

- Lack of responsibility = lack of initiative

Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Things That Don’t Require Talent Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Talent and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is a podcast that is committed to adding
0:25.2	value to leaders who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and today Chris Goody and I
0:31.9	began a new two-part series in which John Maxwell teaches five things that don't require talent.
0:39.6	Now, if you're like me and don't feel very talented, you're just already saying, okay,
0:44.8	Mark, stop talking. Let Mark, let John talk. I want to know. See, these are characteristics
0:50.2	every leader, every growing person must embrace to get out of what we at Maxwell Leadership call
0:57.6	the peeping pile. If you learn these five things, you'll take your leadership to the next level.
1:03.9	Now, today Chris and I will talk about points one and two and then next week we invite you back
1:10.1	and we'll cover the final three four and five points that John makes about being more than talented.
1:20.7	If you'd like to watch this episode on YouTube or download the bonus resource for this episode,
1:25.7	just visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash talent. All right, let's get ready to learn. Here is John Maxwell.
1:36.0	The lesson title today is things that do not require talent. Several months ago, most of you know
1:42.3	as listeners, I do some speaking for sports teams in the United States and several months ago,
1:47.8	I went back to Ohio State, which is my favorite college football team, my wife Margaret Attender there,
1:54.0	and they asked me to come and speak before the big Ohio State Michigan game and they sent me
1:58.9	their notebook that they used for their players and teaching and things such as that.
2:03.5	My attention was given to a section in the Ohio State study book that was titled
2:09.1	items that do not take talent. In that, they began to list some things that require no talent at all
2:15.8	and it began to set off kind of a thinking process for me of which I decided to do a lesson from.
2:21.6	So to coach Tressel and the Ohio State Buckais, you were the genius of me developing this lesson.
2:27.9	In your workbook, in your notes, here we go, the purpose of this lesson is not to minimize talent,
2:35.4	but to emphasize those things that are not dependent upon talent,
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