Your Level of Commitment and What You're Committed to Says Everything About You
Contrary to what many believe, greatness is not something anyone is born with. Research shows that there are approximately nineteen thousand genes in the human genome and over one hundred and twenty thousand proteins that we are capable of producing. As proteins are responsible for turning the gears that power our genes, the number of combinations possible are staggering in terms of what is genetically possible. How do we optimize these combinations? Through our experiences and our thoughts.
The nature versus nurture debate has been raging on for centuries between scientists, philosophers, psychologists and so forth and there still isn't a clear champion on the debate. However, it has been definitively proven that genes are not the be all end all that was once the consensus although many minds still operate on that software. One can not for certain how much one is more influential than the other but this much is clear, nurture activates nurture.
Michael Jordan did not have to tell people he was the best basketball player of his era. He did not have to tell people he was aiming to be the greatest. In his prime Tiger Woods did not have to tell people he was aiming for greatness. His commitment to greatness was evident when he changed his swing when he was on top of the PGA Universe. Michael Phelps did not have to tell people he was aiming for greatness as an Olympian. It doesn't matter who it is or where it is, all people that achieve greatness have at least one thing in common, commitment. Whether it is Steve Jobs, Oprah, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jay Leno, Lebron James, Floyd Mayweather, the single ingredient is commitment to cause the effect. There is no luck in becoming great.
Now we do not have to become outliers but we can all commit to our own greatness in ourselves. Think about those people who know, if you know any, who live engaging and inspired lives. Those that have a purpose, those who are chasing their passion. There is an energy about them and they do not have to announce to anyone that they are committed to to the thing they are chasing.
Too many of us have this infection of the mind believing that successful people were lucky or had it handed to them. There is randomness in the universe but resulting expertise and mastery is never a result of randomness. And many successful people will tell you a person can create their own randomness by committing to their cause. That overtime you will in fact attract certain elements to you and your cause when you truly commit and throw everything you've got to your cause.
We live in app culture and technology will keep moving us in a direction that steers us away from patience and commitment. You can see it everywhere if you are paying attention. The name of the game is speed. And although it helps in some areas it hurts our work ethic and our commitment. We now have a tendency to quit if things don't go our way as fast as we believe they should. This is going to be costly to many down the road. Hunker down and recommit to your commitment. Another thing all great and successful people have in common is that that stuck through the difficult times on their journey to achieve, they didn't give up. How did they get through repeated failures and thought times? They leaned on their commitment.
The nature versus nurture debate has been raging on for centuries between scientists, philosophers, psychologists and so forth and there still isn't a clear champion on the debate. However, it has been definitively proven that genes are not the be all end all that was once the consensus although many minds still operate on that software. One can not for certain how much one is more influential than the other but this much is clear, nurture activates nurture.
Michael Jordan did not have to tell people he was the best basketball player of his era. He did not have to tell people he was aiming to be the greatest. In his prime Tiger Woods did not have to tell people he was aiming for greatness. His commitment to greatness was evident when he changed his swing when he was on top of the PGA Universe. Michael Phelps did not have to tell people he was aiming for greatness as an Olympian. It doesn't matter who it is or where it is, all people that achieve greatness have at least one thing in common, commitment. Whether it is Steve Jobs, Oprah, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jay Leno, Lebron James, Floyd Mayweather, the single ingredient is commitment to cause the effect. There is no luck in becoming great.
Now we do not have to become outliers but we can all commit to our own greatness in ourselves. Think about those people who know, if you know any, who live engaging and inspired lives. Those that have a purpose, those who are chasing their passion. There is an energy about them and they do not have to announce to anyone that they are committed to to the thing they are chasing.
Too many of us have this infection of the mind believing that successful people were lucky or had it handed to them. There is randomness in the universe but resulting expertise and mastery is never a result of randomness. And many successful people will tell you a person can create their own randomness by committing to their cause. That overtime you will in fact attract certain elements to you and your cause when you truly commit and throw everything you've got to your cause.
We live in app culture and technology will keep moving us in a direction that steers us away from patience and commitment. You can see it everywhere if you are paying attention. The name of the game is speed. And although it helps in some areas it hurts our work ethic and our commitment. We now have a tendency to quit if things don't go our way as fast as we believe they should. This is going to be costly to many down the road. Hunker down and recommit to your commitment. Another thing all great and successful people have in common is that that stuck through the difficult times on their journey to achieve, they didn't give up. How did they get through repeated failures and thought times? They leaned on their commitment.
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