The people who are the best at a profession are typically the ones who like it enough to outwork, out study and out hustle the other people in their profession year after year. The most genetically gifted surgeon, salesman or teacher who graduates from the best college isn’t in the same league as the person with middling natural talent who has been working diligently for a decade. Thomas Sowell was right when he said, “Experience trumps brilliance.”. . .Movies love to play up “heart,” but in the real world, “heart” loses to preparation 99 times out-of-100. . . .That’s particularly relevant because Hollywood portrays thriving corporations and successful businessmen who’ve risen to their top of their fields as evil so often that it’s practically a cliché. . . To be a rich, successful businessman who put in long hours working his way up to the top in the movies is to be unethical, a drone or a greedy sociopath who’d kick a puppy down the stairs to make 5 more dollars.. . .This is the mentality that makes people think that the “rich” and “successful” must either be lucky or alternately, they must have done something wrong by default. Meanwhile, in the real world, those are the guys living great lifestyles, marrying the hottest women and providing people with every product they love from iPods to Coca-Cola – and the truth is that most of them deserve it.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:47:37 +0000
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