Many people spend a lot of time wishing they could accomplish some great feats. Perhaps you are living in a fantasy world of wishing you are someone who is famous for a particular reason. Be it an athlete, a musician, an inventor or someone who is excellent at what they do, and you wish you are that person. I have also heard people who would resign to fate and believe that some people are just destined to be great, or do great things while others are not meant to. In their thinking, intelligence is fixed and some people have it while others don’t.
Perhaps you have not come in contact with the fact that intelligence is not fixed but malleable. The human brain contains millions of cells that are capacity of doing even beyond what you are thinking right now. One just have to constantly develop it.
How expensive is your brain?
There is this joke about people who do not seem to use their brain. The joke talks about how the unused brain will be very expensive when put up for sale because of the enormous space available, unlike a used brain. So my question to you is how expensive is your brain? Will your brain be worth millions in currency when put up for sale or will it worth just a penny. The value attached to it here is inversely proportional to the space left unused. Think about this! Intelligent is not fixed as people develop themselves to get to a particular level of competence.
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How better can you get?
It is good to celebrate people who are doing well or are having a great impact in their field. Today, Usain Bolt holds the record for running 100m in just 9.58 seconds! We all are like wow that man is fast. He has tremendous ability. Have you ever considered what goes on behind the big scene? The hours and years of training, the hard work and effort, and all the sacrifices that he has put up with before the eventual breakthrough on the big scene? I have watched some of his training and there was a particular video where he was actually vomiting profusely after running. He has had to sacrifice eating some kind of food even against his desire.
What are you sacrificing?
You cannot grow or become someone great if you do not start now to work towards it. As the saying goes “Rome was not built in a day.” do not give in to mediocrity. I have also once been a victim. You do not just have to wish, it is now time to start to take action. It is never too late be best at anything as long as you still have breath. Go all out and hold nothing back in developing yourself, and you will see that gradually you will grow. Surely, the likes of Albert Einstein didn’t grow to become a genius by accident. You have to be more deliberate in your action. Find out the secret to people’s success story and be prepared to go all out.
Who told you it will be easy?
Let me tell you the truth, there is no easy way out. It takes a lot of hard work and sacrifices. If you have ever undergone a PhD research or you are still, you will agree with me that to produce a quality work requires painstakingly huge effort. So is any good thing in life. Walk the walk and damn any discouragement. It will not be easy but at the end will be worth it.
Realize this, you are not there yet, but if you starting building yourself, you will eventually get there. Yet is a powerful word, you can make it a deliberately word to use when you are working at being better at anything.
@Obakhamik saying thank you and dream big….cheers