A short excerpt from a YouTube interview (host Matan Hazanov) asking whether sales skills can be learned by anyone. The respondent argues that anybody can make a sale in everyday contexts (influence), but that high-level enterprise/niche sales require a different, rarer skill set — likening baseline ability to Little League and top-level performance to Triple-A/World Series level.
Do you think that sales skill set can be learned by basically anyone, or is there kind of like a naturally excellent salesperson?
I will start by saying that anybody can make a sale. If you ever got somebody to do something that you were very interested in because of your influence, that's a sale. But to play at that high level where it's, you know, you're selling a very niche solution to a large corporation, that takes a bit of a different skill set. So although technically anybody can learn that skill set, it's kind of like comparing Little League to triple A hockey. You can see skate on ice, you can shoot the puck, but you're not going to be competing in World Series or whatever, right?
