Comments on: Here are the only 3 things you MUST do to become great at anything

By: Jae "Jaebird" Burnham

Jae "Jaebird" Burnham — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:23:30 +0000

I used to be really bad at networking.

I put awkward into awkward. I was the poster boy for sitting alone in the corner.

Now:

I am the guy that everyone knows. People know who I am in my community. I have no problem and introducing myself and getting that business card…

…then of course following up.

It wasn’t always as easy as it was today. It took work as you explained above. But it has been worth both professionally and personally.

Thanks for the great article.

Best,

Jae

By: Shadey

Shadey — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 08:32:52 +0000

Hello Derek and hello everyone! So here’s my story…
Few years back, I used to be the most shy guy in the class. But now I am the most popular guy in the school. All I did was went on meeting new people. And, what I think is, meeting new people transform ed me from an introvert to an extrovert.

By: Qusai

Qusai — Tue, 10 May 2016 14:27:16 +0000

i used to be bad at origami, now im professional at it, i teach and give specialized origami courses for children and adults, and i have my own designs, if you ask me before 5 years, i will tell that this is impossible to happen.
the secret: i practice and enjoy origami a lot, every day since 4 years im practicing it “between 7-10 hours”
until now im practising, until now im enjoying

By: shamsheer

shamsheer — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:22:35 +0000

You want to know how to go from the big pool of people who start at the beginning of the race track, and how do you end up at the finish line

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 08:28:04 +0000

I just took the assessment and this is badass! Thanks for taking the time to make these ebooks and the survey. I am super stoked about my product launch happening on 4/7/2016, pre-launch #1 of many and I would love to send you access to the course. It is going to be called Local Authority Monetization Secrets. We have set three goals for our launch:

– Minimum Sales: 50 units
– Target Sales: 150 units
– Outrageous Sales: 400 units

I plan to hit our first target sales goal before June 30th! #YouRock Brotha

By: Juanita Dailey

Juanita Dailey — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:35:50 +0000

Awesome advice… “invest in yourself, practice regularly, and give yourself permission to be bad”.

So to your question…
– What’s one thing you used to be bad at that you’re now GREAT at?
– What did you do to go from “bad” to “great?”

The one thing I use to be really bad at was speaking in front of a group of people. To be honest, I’m out of practice now because I haven’t done it in a while. However, there was a time when I worked in an office that required it. Speaking in front of a group of people for an introvert can be very difficult. However, for me… whenever I saw something difficult I needed to do I always took the approach to tackle it head on. So I did just that, I helped form a Toastmasters club right there in the office and even held the VP title.

This of course forced me to put forth my best efforts to be the best speaker I could be. In order to go from bad to great, I did a lot of practicing and found the one thing that would help me to deliver a good speech. For me it was humor at the very beginning of my speech. If I could get them to laugh, that would ease the tension. And really, I found I could even mess up a little in my speech and it didn’t matter. LOL! Maybe because they were still stuck on the joke. Anyway, practice was definitely the key. Though I’m out of practice right now because haven’t done it for a while, I know I could get back to that level because I already know what it takes.

By: Nick Julia

Nick Julia — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 02:18:58 +0000

Love it….
Sometimes it’s hard to let yourself be bad.
Especially after you’re already good at something, related or not.

The learning curve for anything new can be harsh.
Thanks for the reminder, that being bad first is ok.

By: Dain

Dain — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:08:57 +0000

What I am getting from the “give yourself permission to be bad” part is that you shouldn’t not do something because you think you are bad at it. Fear of failure or embarrassment prevent a lot of people from doing things they want to do. If you accept the fact that you are going to suck the first few times you do something, you allow yourself to get experience and get better at it.

In your case falling short is an opportunity to get better the next time you do something, or learning what you are capable of delivering so you don’t oversell yourself.

Just my thoughts. Feel free to correct me if off here.

By: Kam

Kam — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:46:49 +0000

It’s cool man but I am not sure I get the give yourself permission to be bad thing. Do you mean…”okay I am not good at this…but that is okay…” and then just practice relentlessly and you will grow stronger at that skill?

I just want to make sure I get what your saying on that one man because I know personally I am guilty of overconfidence and overestimating what I can and will do. Then I tend to fall short of my expectations.

Just wondering if I could find some advice in this one.

Thanks bro.

Kam

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:57:33 +0000

I was hired as a social media consultant at a digital advertising firm after working as a writer in Malaysia. I was not even tech savvy at that time. I had no idea about social advertising or coming up with actionable insights for big brands from merely understanding the behaviour and conversations of their customers online. I’m not great at what I do now but I do pretty well. Enough mistakes and experience eventually led me to learn how to navigate the digital media advertising scene better. It’s has been 5 years. I still have a lot of room to grow but yay for the many milestones I have hit since my first day at work.