The truth is you can teach any skill, but you cannot change a bad attitude.
-- Barbara Corcoran
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Skills can be taught, learned, and perfected. Any of us can teach a skill, and any of us can learn a skill. Even laboratory animals can learn skills; if they can learn skills, then so can we.
Attitude, however, is what separates an those who excel from those who don't (even if those who don't excel do OK). How many gifted people find themselves disillusioned for any number of reasons, while some less-gifted people find a way to reach high levels of success and fulfillment?
No one change someone else's bad attitude; only the person with the bad attitude can change it. As long as this is the case, no amount of skill and mastery of skill can overcome that.
Some Information about Barbara Corcoran
Barbara Ann Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, US on 1949-March-10.
Barbara Corcoran is best known as one of the "sharks" on the venture capitalist television series Shark Tank (along with Mark Cuban). She is also an author, syndicated columnist, and motivational speaker.
She struggled academically through her years in primary school, high school, and college. She was called "the dumb kid" by both students and teachers; rather than fall victim to the bullying and insults due to her bad grades, she resolved to work harder and to find a way to succeed. Although graduated from high school with straight D's, she did better in college. In later years she would discover that her learning troubles were due to dyslexia, a condition where the brain processes data in ways different from most people.
By the time she was 23, Barbara Corcoran had worked 20 jobs. While she worked as a waitress she also had a side job working for a real estate company. With USD 1000 her boyfriend at the time had loaned her, they founded The Corcoran-Simone company. When she and her boyfriend split years later, she formed The Corcoran Group.
In 2001, Barbara Corcoran sold The Corcoran Group real estate brokerage firm to NRT for USD 66 million.
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