Mike Carruthers:
Interesting
research shows that to really achieve success and fulfillment
to be in your element requires more than just doing something
you're good at.
Ken Robinson
PhD:
Because many people do things that they're good at but they
don't especially like them. To be what I call in your element
means that you also love to do this thing - and that's really
what drives success.
Sir Ken Robinson,
author of the book The
Element…
If you're good
at gymnastics but you love it too you're going to drive yourself
to much higher levels of achievement than somebody who's good
at it but has no real appetite for it.
Because when
you love what you're doing you're willing to work harder and
take a bigger risk.
I tell the story
of Bob Dylan - he had this driving ambition for music but he
didn't think that he could get anywhere with it in his hometown,
he had to get to New York. I don't mean you have to immigrate
but often the people who've succeeded in finding their talent
have been willing to take a risk - to put themselves a little
bit against the grain and to try something.
Ken interviewed
Paul Mc Cartney and said he is a great example of someone with
a talent that was not immediately obvious.
There have to
be certain conditions under which they will show themselves.
If Paul Mc Cartney and George Harrison can go through the whole
of their entire music of the school that nobody thinks that
they have any talent it's because you need certain conditions
under which these things start to manifest themselves. For them
it was rock music in the 1960's and meeting each other and meeting
John Lennon that made the big difference. So a lot of it is
having people around you who can spot it as well.
You can link
to Ken's website
from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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