What should be rewarded: Talents vs Skills

 

Ask yourself, what are you good at?

If nothing comes into your head, then chances are, you don’t have it. (Not yet.)

What is the difference between talents and skills? You are born with a talent, and you earn a skill. Skills are acquired with sheer resilience to self-discipline. One should commit and practice to earn the skill of earning skills.

We talk about developing skills and encourage others to develop into their full potential, but too often, we choose the short-term path of betting on talent instead, compared to the willingness to commit, enroll, and persist.

There are very few places where talent is the key driver of success. Think about it, everything that matters is a skill. If you can learn, or put effort and training to get good at something, it’s a skill.

Although there is a possibility that some skills are easier to garner if you are talented.

Ever wondered, why do we study so many subjects in school? We all know the everyday skills we need in life aren’t subject-specific. But we use those subjects to teach the skills we actually end up using.

We generally don’t need binomials, but it caters to problem-solving, and so we pretend to teach the subject when evidently, we are teaching the skill.

Once you understand that you can improve, amplify, and refine your skills, there is nothing better than it.