Talent is Overrated

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Hi docs. Welcome to the Entre MD Podcast where it is all about helping amazing physicians just like you, embrace entrepreneurship so you can have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on your terms. I'm your host, Dr. Una. Well, hello and welcome to another episode of the On Trendy podcast. And as always, I'm so excited you're here. Thank you for being a faithful listener and for sharing the podcast, reviewing the podcast, telling your friends about it. I truly, truly, truly appreciate it. And today I want to start off by giving a big shout out to a doc who left us an amazing five star review. And this is from Huntress07 and she says this is exactly what I needed. Dr. Una is such an inspiration. She is so relatable. She gives actionable advice on how to be a successful physician entrepreneur. Love this podcast, exclamation mark. All right, thank you. Thank you so much for that very kind review. I appreciate it and I am committed to bringing you new episodes every week that'll inspire you to be a very successful physician entrepreneur. And as it happens, please share your story. I'd love to hear it. I love celebrating every kind of success. All right, so today we're going to be looking at something really important and it's this. Talent is overrated. There are sometimes when we feel I can't start that business because I'm not as smart as that entrepreneur or, or I can't create that product because I don't think my products will be as amazing as somebody else's product or I'm not going to do that talk. Because what do I have to say that's all related to talent. Like, I'm not as talent as I'm as they are. I'm not as gifted as they are. And I just wanted to spend this whole episode to let you know that talent is overrated and talent is not the prerequisite for success. It really isn't. Hard work is. Now we think about a lot of people and we're like, oh, my gosh, they're so talented. Like, you can look at a basketball player like Michael Jordan, you're like, he is so talented. You can look at some entrepreneurs and Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, and you're like, they're so talented. They're so gifted. They're just brilliant entrepreneurs. And I've studied successful entrepreneurs, and the common theme I find is not talented is hard work. So I picked out a number of examples that I want to share with you today. And what it will do is it'll set you free. Because it doesn't matter that you're not as talented or not as gifted in your mind, maybe because maybe you are. You know, we sometimes don't appreciate our own talent, but it doesn't matter. It's not a prerequisite. It just isn't. All right, so first one is you guys all heard of Coachella, right? This amazing show happens in California, and Beyonce did a mind boggling performance in 2018. Mind boggling. I mean, Netflix did a whole documentary about it. And if you look at the statistics she had for her performance, she had 458,000 people watching simultaneously. Like, Almost half a million simultaneously. That's the most viewed live stream that Coachella has ever produced. Most viewed. And it. I'm not a hip hop person. I don't really watch music videos. It's just not my thing. But I watched the documentary and they had as many as 110 people on stage at the same time in perfect harmony, perfect sync. It was a brilliant production.

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Extraordinary choreography, extraordinary vocals. So the question becomes, was that talent? And the answer is no. Like, absolutely not. It wasn't. And you know, I like you to guess, and maybe you posted in the entre Facebook group, like, how long do you think they prepared for that two hour performance? Like, what do you think? Right. I'm going to tell you. But you think about it. What do you think? Post it in the group. Okay. Now for that, to our performance. Beyonce and her team rehearsed for eight months. Eight. Eight months. Eight months for a two hour performance. So talent, no hard work. Yes, for eight months. And she started preparing six months after she had twins for eight months for a two hour performance. Some days, as they got closer to the event, they rehearsed for as long as 11 hours a day. We need to stop and think about that. So, yes, she's brilliant at what she does, but is she brilliant because she's talented? No, she's not. So if you think, oh, I'm not as talented as somebody else, you may not have control over that. You're born with what you're born with, but do you have control over whether you work hard or not?

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So I may not have the talent, but I have the work ethic. Okay.

All right.

So one of my favorite basketball players of all time, the late Kobe Bryant. Brilliant. I mean, one of the best ever, right? Black Mamba. One of the best ever. And in his heyday, he was so good. So good that my husband and I would joke, like, if you're playing the Lakers and the buzzer has gone off, you still can't celebrate that you've won until you look and make sure there's no ball in the air.

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Because he had so many, so many buzzer beaters. I made that word up. But, you know, he had so many of those. He was brilliant. His execution was impeccable. And we would say things like, he's so talented, but is that really talent or is that hard work? Okay, so he has a reputation of working even in the dark, like two hours before practice, in the dark, you can hear the ball. And who has it? Kobe. In fact, one of his coaches said he watched him play from 4:15am to 11am that's almost seven hours. And he was not going to get off the court until he did 800 shots. 800 shots. 800, 800 shots. He wasn't going to get off. And to give you an idea, he had a. He had an off season workout routine that was called the 666. Okay. Weird number to pick, but, you know, I digress. And what he would do is every day he'd do two hours of running, two hours of basketball, two hours of weights. So that's working out for six hours. Okay, so six hours a day, six days a week for six months. This is off season. This is when he's not actively playing games. So was it his talent that made him. No, it was his work ethic. It was his work ethic. Now, something really cool happened about two weeks before the time of this recording. One of my mentors is Terry Savelle Foy, and she was hosting a conference. It was her 10th anniversary conference. And she's like, I would love for you to come share your story. And, you know, they're like, you know, you have three minutes to share your story. And this was in an event with over a thousand women in it. Okay, and three minutes was not scary, right? How do you share your story in three minutes? It wasn't scary. But you know why? Because I'd been trained to do a full talk in 90 seconds. I've been trained to do a full talk in 60 seconds. I have spent years and hours and hours and hours honing that skill of telling a story in that time of telling a story and taking all the fluff out of the story so you can give a really powerful talk, really powerful story in 60 seconds. I have done it on videos. I've done it on Facebook Lives. I've done it on podcasts. I've consistently recorded a podcast every single week for 10 months. I've spoken at other people's conferences. I've hosted my conferences. And because of the work at speaking, when an opportunity like that showed up, which was. I mean, that was an amazing opportunity, I wasn't scared, I wasn't nervous, and I knew I was going to execute. Now, somebody in the audience could have said, how could she have done that in three minutes? How could she? She's talented. She's a gifted speaker. I'm not a gifted speaker. I mean, I was a no speaker until I started training. No speaker at all. And super introverted. Introverted introvert. Socially awkward introverted introvert. But it's the work and the hours and the reps, right? That's what they will say in sports. And the reps and going on and on and sucking at it was still going. And doing a sloppy job. Not sloppy, but the best that I could at the time, but not really great. And doing the reps and keep going and keep going and keep going, and then it gets better and better and better until the time when you can stand in front of a thousand people and have no nerves and know what you can execute in three minutes. It's hard work, people. It has nothing to do with talent. So maybe you're here. And the reason why you haven't started that business, you haven't scaled that business, you haven't started that YouTube channel, you haven't started that podcast, is because you Feel you're not as gifted as somebody else or not as talented, you're free today to do what you need to do because talent is not a prerequisite. Hard work is hard work. And if you're willing to do the work, you can have the result. Okay? So no talent, no problem. All right, so what I want you to do today is I want you to make a quality decision that I'm going to work hard and I'm going to build the business of my dreams. I'm going to work hard, and I'm going to start it. I'm going to work hard, I'm going to scale it. I'm going to work hard. I'm going to become the best version of myself. Maybe I'm not good at speaking, not good at marketing, not good at selling, not good at doing videos well. Well, I can become good at it if I'm willing to do the hard work. So I want you to make the decision. I am going to do the hard work. I'm going to do the work it takes to be the best version of myself. I'm not hanging to no talent, no gift. I'm not hanging onto any of those as excuses anymore. Okay? That's all I want you to do. All right? Go be great. Talent is not required. All right? So thank you so much for coming to listen. And I want you to imagine that 90 days from now, you'll look back and you look at all the strides you've made because you're like, I have the work ethic. I can do this.

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