Being Efficiently-Effective Excellent.....

For most of my adult life, I've accepted the incredibly durable myth that some people are born with special talents and gifts, and that the potential to truly excel in any given pursuit is largely determined by our genetic inheritance.......

During former years, I've read documents, which lays out several guidelines, grounded in the science of high performance, to systematically building your capacity physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

It has been found, in working with executives at dozens of organizations, that it's possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest.......... 

Aristotle had it exactly right 2000 years ago: "We are what we repeatedly do." 

By relying on highly specific practices, it has been noted how people dramatically improve skills ranging from empathy, to focus, to creativity, to summoning positive emotions, to deeply relaxing.

Like everyone who studies performance, I'm indebted to the extraordinary Anders Ericsson, arguably the world's leading researcher into high performance. 

For more than two decades, Ericsson has been making the case that it's not inherited talent which determines how good we become at something, but rather how hard we're willing to work — something he calls "deliberate practice." 

Numerous researchers now agree that 10,000 hours of such practice as the minimum necessary to achieve expertise in any complex domain.....
There is something wonderfully empowering about this...... 

It suggests we have remarkable capacity to influence our own outcomes. 

But that's also daunting. 

One of Ericsson's central findings is that practice is not only the most important ingredient in achieving excellence, but also the most difficult and the least intrinsically enjoyable.
If by any chance, -you can can pursue (as a bonus) that what you love, -you just might have "arrived"...!
Having "Real Passion" for something/someone is an incredible motivator. 

It fuels focus, resilience, .........& perseverance.

If you want to be really good at something, -it's going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures. 

That's true as long as you want to continue to improve, or even maintain a high level of excellence. 

The reward is that being really good at something you've earned through your own hard work can be immensely satisfying.
Shalom...... & Maranatha