10 Ways to Succeed Without Talent
You may think that successful people are born with natural talent, skills, ability or are born into rich and influential families with high connections. These factors may surely help but there are several successful people born into poor or uninfluential families. People differ in their talents and abilities, and comparisons won’t help you in any way.
There is no reason to be worried about not having any talent in you that hasn’t been spotted yet. You can still succeed irrespective of your skills.
Here are 10 ways to succeed without talent
1. Work Hard
Intelligent or talented people don’t reach their true potential because they don’t work hard or get along well with a team. Even if you are not talented but work hard at a chosen job or activity, you can easily overcome the challenge any talented person can. It is the number of hours and the dedication you put into the activity that matters.
2. Get Training
You may not have scored well in academics at school or college, but that does not mean that you are not good at anything. You can learn a new skill through vocational training where your previous study doesn’t matter. It could be a mechanic, car driver, or gardening course. It can help you earn a good income.
3. Seek Help and Get Started
You may have read about several millionaires who didn't even complete their school education and started off as a helper or in a lowly job with a businessman or company and through hard work climbed up the ladder or became entrepreneurs themselves.
4. Go by Intuition
No matter what others think of you or how they have assessed you, your own intuition can help you identify what you are good at. Sometimes it could be singing or dance, theater, cooking, fishing, and a lot of things about which there is no way to check your ability at school.
5. Show Dedication
Sometimes, to master a skill from someone or an institution, you may be sent away many times but the more dedicatedly you return back to them, the more they will understand how motivated and energetic you are. It will help you gain entry to learn a new skill.
6. You Have the Potential
Each person born in this world comes with a talent. Even deaf and blind people have composed music, sung songs, and attended universities. It is wrong to think that you don’t have any talent or the potential to gain talents.
7. Take Setbacks in Stride
When you have no talent or are unable to know what you are good at, some of your efforts may go wrong. Many successful businessmen you know had worked as waiters, clerks, helpers or in lowly paid jobs before they became famous. So grab whatever comes your way.
8. Emotional Intelligence Matters
Most often your success in life depends on not just your intelligence quotient (IQ) but also on your emotional intelligence. Highly qualified management graduates or engineers are most often found lacking in emotional intelligence while less talented or educated people are having a high Emotional Intelligence level.
9. Never Complain or Give up
Your life is meant to be lived and there is no point complaining or getting dejected because you are not talented. The more you keep complaining about the system or cursing yourself, the less likely that you will succeed.
10. Work Smarter
Hard work matters in life and career, but most often people who work smartly, become more successful. It is not the number of hours you put but the quality behind it .
