TOO SMART FOR YOUR OWN GOOD?

Do you desire mastery, leadership, motivation, empowerment, winning, focus, greatness, success, or excellence in your life? Silly question, right? Of course you do. If so, please pay careful attention to this:

It is entirely possible for you to be competent in five, ten or fifteen areas, but virtually impossible to attain mastery in them all…even three! The grade point average of your life is just that, average. Your many As and Bs don’t matter as much as that one A++, the zone in which you are the best you.  Myriad competencies do not make you great. If history remembers you, it will be for something you mastered.

Find your area of greatest strength and focus on it. Refine it, polish it and leverage it. How good was Einstein at political science, geography and art?  Who cares? How skilled is Usain Bolt at mathematics? Who really cares? What is there about you that will make others care?

Develop basic competency in vital areas that are required to get along with others and function well in society…words, numbers, ethics, computer literacy and so on. Now, at all cost, pick one on which to focus, then spend your life mastering and leveraging it. This is a quest for your greatest talent and purpose.

QUESTIONS: Is it better to be well rounded than to be a “one-trick pony?” And what if you don’t know your greatest talent and purpose? Suppose you pick the wrong item as your specialty?

What are your thoughts on the matter?