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	I just read this: Why You Don't Need to Be a Genius to Achieve Creative Success and found it to be quite thought provoking. Mark McGuinness talks about The Myth of Genius and What DO You Need for Creative Success. The part that really made my brain kick into gear was his discussion about talent, skill, motivation and productivity. Talent vs enjoying what you do I believe that joy is the major contributor to building talent, skill, motivation and productivity. Maybe things like in my blood, it comes naturally and I can't help it are just different ways of saying I enjoy what I do. I don't think you can become successful at anything that you don't enjoy doing. Maybe talent is just the manifestation of really loving what you do. And not the other way around. Sooooo.... When you're wondering why you're not all that good at what you're doing, then maybe it's time to really think hard about whether you're enjoying it. Think about what you enjoy doing. And do that instead. You'll probably be better at it. posted by chris ritke on Nov 19, 2008 • permanent link If you came this far reading this, you should already be convinced that you need to grab my RSS feed, right?!

Mark McGuinness says...
Thanks Chris, good to see you at Lateral Action. And excellent point about enjoyment and achievement.
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