How to Find Your Talent _ Tom Bilyeu _ Goalcast

I believed that I was stupid and not talented .

And I felt like a total and abject failure .

So I used to be £60 heavier and I grew up in a morbidly obese family and I really wanted to escape that fate , but I couldn't see any way to do it all that I had was this crushing sense of being adrift at sea and not knowing how to get back to shore .

I could see the failure .

I could see that I had no plan that I no longer knew how I was going to get where I wanted to go .

And I didn't believe that those were things that I could change about myself .

They felt like a prison sentence or if I'm honest , it felt like a death sentence .

And it was coming to the realization that I wasn't talented that really forced me to look for a new mindset that would allow me to escape depression because I was coming to the world with my hand out .

And as long as I was coming to the world with my hand out , I was at the mercy of other people .

If I wanted to take control I was going to have to get control of the resources .

And in that was a desire to find another way to think about it , another way to think about myself , another way to think about talent , another way literally to think about everything .

And I remember saying to myself , listen , pussy , stop asking yourself what the least you need to do is and start asking yourself how much you can bear .

I began to develop a growth mindset .

I needed to believe that by working really hard that I could get better at anything .

And if that were true , then I just needed to buckle down .

I needed to practice , I needed to get good .

I needed to do the reps .

I needed to put in the effort .

I needed to be willing to break myself in half to get so good that people couldn't ignore me the way to do that act .

That's it .

You need to get out there and do something right now today .

Literally stop this fucking video and whatever it is .

If you already have a passion , you are so much farther ahead than the , the vast majority of humankind .

If you know what that thing is , get out and act .

And by the way , if you don't know what it is , act , that's the only way that you're going to find out , go and counter stuff , go try things .

It is in the process of action that you're going to learn the things you need to learn .

But if you've been thinking about starting a business , fucking start it , like actually build the product right now today , you will learn more infinitely more in the process of trying to create it and make it real .

Then you ever will by watching videos by thinking by meditating on it , by taking notes , none of it compares .

It's not even in the same universe as just going to do it .

One step is better than 100 hours of punt application running 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction is better than standing still .

You'll learn something .

So get rid of this notion that you're going to end the day with a perfect record , you're going to fail , you're going to fuck up .

You're going to try 1000 and 999 of them are not going to work .

But whatever you want , literally don't ask yourself who you are today .

Ask only who do you want to become and then are you willing to pay the price to get there ?

Like people are convinced that they shouldn't act until they have it all figured out .

Fuck that .

You should act right now today .

No matter how chaotic your vision , no matter how chaotic your life , no matter how much you have going on already , you're working two jobs , three jobs doesn't matter , take an action today or you never will .