The biggest difference is not in goals.
We all want some more of something. Money. Success. Health. Career. Knowledge. Security. If you tell that’s what you want, it’s difficult to stand out, because our goals are incredibly similar.
The biggest difference is in method.
How are you going to get that some more?
Tell about that and you will have your own personal story.
Sometimes people fail to succeed because they can’t accept to suck.
If you want to master something, you have to get accustomed to the idea that you are going to suck. You are going to suck at the thing you want to master – for a long time, before you actually master it -, and you are going to suck at most of the other things that you are not interested in mastering. That’s why it’s easier to move from one activity to the next, averaging them all.
Success requires a close familiarity with the idea that you suck.
There are two powerful instincts we need to fight when things don’t go as we’d like.
The instinct to hide, to go ahead as if nothing happened.
And the instinct to find an immediate, easy, known answer.
In both cases, we take a shortcut, as we are basically hoping that things will magically go back to normal. It might even be the case, but it is rare.
If we can fight those forces for long enough, a more rational approach might kick in. It’s when we start looking at the situation, we collect facts and data, we formulate hypothesis, we make changes, and we reassess.
Of course, it’s more complex, and it might even get us face-to-face with some hard truths we’d prefer to escape.
And it’s still the most reliable way to move on and progress.
The world is full with people that define success in a single way.
Nothing bad with that, but the reminder is that success has different shapes, it comes at different times, and it is your responsibility (not theirs) to define how success looks like for you.
If you’re a marketer and can only talk to marketers, you are not going to get far.
If you’re a salesman and can only talk to sales folks, you are not going to get far.
If you’re a developer and can only talk to developers, you will still have job security, but you are not going to get far.
If you’re a strategist and can only talk to business people, you are not going to get far.
Build networks instead, inside and outside of your turf. Learn to speak different languages and to talk to different people. Be a mediator and an initiator.
That’s when you are going to get far.
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