Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

Find the Fire, Don't Light It: Why Top Performers Are Hired, Not Made

9 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Larry Weidel argues that top performers are born with drive, not trained into it. Admitting your mistakes builds trust with audiences because it signals you've actually learned something. Genius is just making millions of mistakes and learning from them.

You make more friends with your audience by telling them what you did wrong. Because what they're listening to, they always think that you. You've had the charm life, and you've never had a problem. And so usually the people talking on the stage or on TV or whatever have had the biggest mountain of problems and made the most mistakes as a result. They've learned more and they know more things to avoid. And that's my thing about being a genius. They say, you're a genius. I say, yeah, you get to be a genius by making millions of mistakes.