The Talent Myth

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The talent myth is basically that there are some people who got the goods, they've got the mojo, and this type of stuff we're talkd about just comes easy them. And if you, if it's not coming easy to you, maybe it's not your thing, right? Maybe there's some other thing out there that shou should do. Because clearly, this prodigy over here, it comes easy for them. But turns out, almost all the prodigies are actually just well practised people that started earlier. You might get good enough at something and determine, like kno, at i started playing tennis, i was terrible. I'm good enough at tennis

Charlie Gilkey is the author of Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done. An Army veteran and near Ph.D. in philosophy, Charlie is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and change-makers take meaningful action on work matters. He’s widely cited in outlets such as Inc. Magazine, Time, Forbes, The Guardian, Life Hacker, and more and his work will help you discover the path from the ideas in your head to the actions you take in your daily life and how to go about getting things done.

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Charlie Gilkey and I Discuss How to Get Things Done and…

His book, Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done
How kindness towards others often brings out the best in everyone
The Tao Te Ching
Focusing on your input and letting go of the results
We don’t just improve by thinking about things, we improve by doing them
Creative constipation breeds toxicity
We’re either creating something or destroying something
We don’t do ideas, we do projects
How doing our best work is often really hard
The myth: if it’s meant to be for us, it’s supposed to be easy
The myth that if it doesn’t come easy for you, you shouldn’t do it
Doing something until you’re good enough at it to decide whether or not you want to continue doing it
The 5 things that get in the way of doing our best work
Head Trash: Doesn’t matter if a thought is true or not – it matters if we believe it or not
The problem with automatically believing our thoughts
How discipline limits decision fatigue
How action expresses priority