Success! You Don't Need Talent, Just Practice
An article in this month's Fortune magazine covers research that says that you don't have to be talented to succeed. You just have to practice more than most for about 10 years with the intention of improvement.Success Strategy
1. Approach any critical task with the intention of improvement. It doesn't matter if it's your golf score, marketing, cooking, or parenting. Seek improvement.
2. Analyze how you do the task. What's working? What could be improved? What could you stop doing?
3. Get feedback from other skilled practitioners. In other words. Hire a coach, even if it's your spouse.
4. Create, expand and enrich your "mental models" of the skill: how the pieces fit together. It could be as simple as figuring out how to get all of the elements of a meal ready simultaneously. Or it could be as complex as how your business fits into your industry and the global economy.
5. Practice, man, practice. It's the punchline to the old joke: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
The 10-Year Rule:
To become world-class, researchers found that you need to practice for about 10 years.
Tiger Woods started at 3, so he was ready for the U.S. Amateur.
Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bonss, suggests that every author should have a writing practice.
What do you want to master? Are you willing to practice to achieve that mastery?
Where are you in your quest for success?
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posted by Jay Arthur @ 8:57 AM
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