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Originally Posted by iTz_NoT_Me_iTzZu
that's called skill. being talented is having a natural aptitude towards something.
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You probably missed the part where I mentioned passion. Many people are skilled at things but they have no passion for the same.
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Originally Posted by rawrr
I tried that already and failed.
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Who cares? Keep trying again. Otherwise with that kind of attitude you're going nowhere fast.
Life is like, maybe 10% about the hand you've been dealt. The rest 90% is about how you react and deal with that 10%. Everyone in this world has it that way,
everyone.
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Cool mashAllah. See I would love to be good at writing because I love reading good writing. I agree about the skill thing.
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So keep doing it until you get better at it.
I'm pretty good at reading and writing but I wasn't born with it. I'm pretty good at various types of artistic expression, but I wasn't born with these talents. Ever since I was a kid I had to work at them to develop them further and further.
Case in point - for most of my life up until the age of 20 I was very introverted and quiet, I kept to my own circle of friends and would never know how to break the ice at any party. When I was in college and university, one of my co-op jobs was selling newspapers for the Globe & Mail from a call-center.
I couldn't sell for beans.
I took the job because time was running out - there was a deadline for the co-op students to get a job for the semester. I sat in that cubicle and just kept working at it, learning from others, trying new methods, silently kinda hating it but just doing what I had to do for a paycheck. At the same time I remembered what Prophet Muhammad said
"When you do anything, do it with ihsaan (excellence)..." - so I just kept at it, kept working my way up and getting better at what I do.
And now I'm really good at it, very comfortable at it. President's Club, trips, major prizes, big bonuses, yada yada yada.