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Become Better at What You’re Good At

Okay, let’s say since we were kids some of us had this special thing which we thought we were the best at. Some kids would be the fastest while others would be the strongest. There would be so many ways to compare yourself to others that it wouldn’t really be hard to find what we’re good at sooner or later. Now a couple of years later you grow into an adult, what are you good at? The comparison for adults is very complicated. Some people stand out at public speaking while others stand out at doing hard concentrated work like encoding or research. Either way, we know our strengths. They become comfortable to us. These strengths are what make us stand out from the rest. But what happens when someone comes along and beats you at your own game? What do you do?

Here’s a few tips to get better at what you’re already good at:

1. Accept
Accepting that someone is better than you without excuses is something you should definitely do. Acceptance is like a huge gulp of bad tasting medicine you have to slide down your throat. After all, the three steps of learning are not knowing anything, thinking you know everything, then realizing you know nothing. This is how we improve! You can’t improve if you become too comfortable with where you are now, you have to aim a little higher every time.

2. Learn
Learning is something we should never give up on. After all, the sky is the limit. There’s a line from the movie “whiplash” where there was a conversation and what the teacher told the student was that “the worst words you can say to a musician is good job” this indicates that once you think you are good enough, you end up giving up on learning and improving. This should never be the case. You should always strive to be better than you were before.

3. Practice
Finally, practice! There’s an old saying that practice makes perfect. A certain response has been thrown out stating that if none of us are perfect and imperfection is something we can’t escape, why should we practice? But then again, another response has sprung out from nowhere expressing that you should practice and aim for perfection because if you do that, you’ll never end up on perfect, you’ll end up being excellent. To get something, we should be asking for a little more.

Here are three things to ponder on for the sake of your improvement. Let’s not forget about how we are suppose to grow as human being. After all, growth is what humanity is about. Strive for perfect, you’ll end up becoming excellent.

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