Talent: How to identify; build and make money with your talent.
The only way to improve and be better ready for the future you desire is doing the right things without waiting for applause.
If people see you, great! What if nobody notices? There is no fulfilment like knowing you did the right thing and if you are to do it again, will do it the same way.
I once watched a movie the hero asked his antagonist ''What will you do if you are to do something to save the world without anybody noticing; without anyone knowing of what you did?''
A tough question it is: everybody wants to do something to attract the limelight. Public respect is what we all crave for; mind you, there are times we need to go against the norm. Fine, we would be vulnerable to criticism but if you don't take that step nobody would. If people see you, great! What if nobody notices? There is no fulfilment like knowing you did the right thing and if you are to do it again, will do it the same way.
I once watched a movie the hero asked his antagonist ''What will you do if you are to do something to save the world without anybody noticing; without anyone knowing of what you did?''
In everyone's hand is a solution to a particular problem. That is why you were created; that is why you were born! But only few of us get to provide the solution to the problem we are destined to solve - reason for the existence of so many problems.
Think of it, if everybody solved a particular problem before leaving this world for good, how many problems do you think would be eradicated? Let me help you with that. The current world population according to worldometers is 7.5 billion. 7.5 billion problems solved?! When everybody provides the solution to the problems they are meant to solve.
A lot of us lose what we really need to be in the pursuit of becoming what we think we should be, when our true self is crying within us!
I believe there is nobody without a talent and all talents are to solve problems.
Remember people will only pay you if you solve their problem. If you are not solving any problem, never expect any payment. So this class is for you. You need to identify that real, true, and special talent of yours.
These Webinar will be divided into three sections:
1. How to Identify your talent.
2. How to build/develop your talent.
3. How to earn money and make a living with your talent.
I believe we would all more than agree with me that we cannot identify what we don’t know.
So let me start with:
◈ What's is talent? and
◈ Disapproving common myths and general believe of what talent is.
◈ What's is talent? and
◈ Disapproving common myths and general believe of what talent is.
Daniel Coyle author of Talent Code define talent thus
Talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, ball boys and football linemen).
Geoff Colvin another author of TALENT OVERRATED define talent thus
Talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, ball boys and football linemen).
Geoff Colvin another author of TALENT OVERRATED define talent thus
Talent: It is a natural ability to do something better than most people can do it. That something is fairly specific—play golf, sell things, or lead an organization.
To get the full concept of where I am going with all this I will need to introduce us to a quote
I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work
-- Charles Darwin
My name is TRIVALENCE; your life coach. Not what you are thinking (#smile), I mean that is what I do (#wink).
TALENT DEFINED
From my personal experiences and encounter plus read research papers, I have come to discover everyone is born with the same potential. Nobody is born a genius. So when we say someone possess a certain talent, it is our commentary of the ability a person capitalized on.
Things to know about talent
▪ Nobody is born with a single talent.
▪ Everybody possess the same inborn ability irrespective of background.
▪ There is no endeavor you wish to undertake that you are not capable of.
▪ Nobody is born a genius
▪ Also nobody is born a dullard.
▪ Everybody possess the same inborn ability irrespective of background.
▪ There is no endeavor you wish to undertake that you are not capable of.
▪ Nobody is born a genius
▪ Also nobody is born a dullard.
Extensive research in a wide range of fields shows that many people not only fail to become outstandingly good at what they do, no matter how many years they spend doing it, they frequently don't even get any better than they were when they started. Auditors with years of experience were no better at detecting corporate fraud—a fairly important skill for an auditor—than were freshly trained rookies. When it comes to judging personality disorders, which is one of the things we count on clinical psychologists to do, length of clinical experience told nothing about skill—"the correlations," concluded some of the leading researchers, "are roughly zero." Surgeons were no better at predicting hospital stays after surgery than residents were. In field after field, when it came to centrally important skills—stockbrokers recommending stocks, parole officers predicting recidivism, college admissions officials judging applicants—people with lots of experience were no better at their jobs than those with very little experience (Geoff Colvin).
But we only say or voice our commendation that someone possesses a TALENT when he/she did something astounding.
If people only get to commend or consider a TALENT conspicuous only after witnessing an outstanding display of such, then how do you identify your talent?
How can we discover our talent?
Sincerely, I tried to find this in books but none of them ever mention or even discuss this. Those who dare to are those who I would say didn’t know what talent really is. They are the ones that believe we are born with a particular talent; that if we don't use will never succeed in other things.
But from self-assessment and study of other people plus extracted information from books and research works, I was able to summarize how to discover your talent viz:
But from self-assessment and study of other people plus extracted information from books and research works, I was able to summarize how to discover your talent viz:
Your talent is that exact thing you need to achieve your dream i.e. your dream determines your talent!
Like we all know, circumstances and environment shape our dream; so also these factors affect our talent.
A research into why Brazil was able to produce a lot of players revealed that, all the players see football as the sole (only) way out of their poverty. Meaning a lot of them were from poor backgrounds.
And for those who have read or watched PELE'S biography or autobiography you would see that he dedicated is time and life to becoming a footballer to fulfil his promise to his father that he would win the world cup for Brazil. His father was a footballer too and a compatriot of the country who was crying because Brazil lost to Holland and this made Pele made the promise.
And for those who have read or watched PELE'S biography or autobiography you would see that he dedicated is time and life to becoming a footballer to fulfil his promise to his father that he would win the world cup for Brazil. His father was a footballer too and a compatriot of the country who was crying because Brazil lost to Holland and this made Pele made the promise.
If you don’t have a definite dream, it is impossible to identify your talent. And don’t base your talent on what you can do today but rather, what you know you are capable of. And according to Mr. Journalist Napoleon Hill ''Whatever the heart of a man can conceive, it can achieve''.
Even if you have never sang in church before, and your dream is to be a famous musician, believe me you can build that talent.
Quick recap of ''How to Identify your talent'':
✓ Your dream determines your talent.
✓ Talent is not that single thing you can do best buy rather than single thing u dedicated yourself to doing best.
✓ You can acquire any talent you want provided your desire is supported with a strong determination.
✓ Environment and Circumstances affect dreams so also talents.
✓ Your dream determines your talent.
✓ Talent is not that single thing you can do best buy rather than single thing u dedicated yourself to doing best.
✓ You can acquire any talent you want provided your desire is supported with a strong determination.
✓ Environment and Circumstances affect dreams so also talents.
How to build/develop your talent
I believe you already have a dream because if you don’t have a dream you cannot detect your talent. Even when people tell you how great you are at something and you have no dream that makes it useful to you, my dear, it is not talent rather hobby.
Determination to achieve your dream is the sole thing that can help build your talent.
Deliberate Practice or Deep Practise is the first method of building your talent.
Determination to achieve your dream is the sole thing that can help build your talent.
Deliberate Practice or Deep Practise is the first method of building your talent.
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Without scrolling up to check the words I asked you to study, get a pad and list all of the words you could remember from the list.
It would be observed that the words you need to fill in the gap are the most you were able to remember. Why is this?
An experiment by psychologist Henry Roediger at Washington University of St. Louis, where students were divided into two groups to study a natural history text. Group A studied the paper for four sessions. Group B studied only once but was tested three times. A week later both groups were tested, and Group B scored 50 percent higher than Group A. They'd studied one-fourth as much yet learned far more. (One student said she applied these ideas to her schoolwork, and raised her GPA by a full point while studying half as much).
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Without scrolling up to check the words I asked you to study, get a pad and list all of the words you could remember from the list.
It would be observed that the words you need to fill in the gap are the most you were able to remember. Why is this?
An experiment by psychologist Henry Roediger at Washington University of St. Louis, where students were divided into two groups to study a natural history text. Group A studied the paper for four sessions. Group B studied only once but was tested three times. A week later both groups were tested, and Group B scored 50 percent higher than Group A. They'd studied one-fourth as much yet learned far more. (One student said she applied these ideas to her schoolwork, and raised her GPA by a full point while studying half as much).
After I read this research, I decided to put it in use.
There is this girl I have been watching for a while now who couldn't read a comprehension passage. After many trial of different route to help, I decided to use this method. I listed the words she found difficulty pronouncing. I omitted some letters from it and asked her to fill it. She did. After this I made her pronounce it, she did that too; you won't believe she was able to read the comprehension passage and pronouncing words her teacher was not even expecting her to know.
The trick and magic behind it would be better explained under the Science of Memory which I will discuss later.
Another example is this:
A famed 1956 paper by psychologist George Miller, called "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," established the rule that human short-term memory was limited to seven pieces of independent information (and gave Bell Telephone reason to settle on seven-digit phone numbers). The limit was called "channel capacity," and the capacity was believed to be as fixed as height or shoe size. Anders Ericsson set out to test Miller's theory in the simplest possible way: by training student volunteers to increase their capacity for memorizing strings of digits, as a new digit arrived once per second. To the scientific establishment, Ericsson's experiment seemed eccentric if not downright nuts, the equivalent of attempting to train people to increase their shoe size. Short-term memory was hardware. Seven digits was the limit; it didn't change. When one of Ericsson's student volunteers memorized an eighty-digit number, the scientific establishment wasn't sure what to think. When the second volunteer surpassed one hundred digits, Miller's number seven seemed to have been replaced by a magic of a different sort. "People were blown away," Ericsson remembered. "They couldn't believe that there wasn't a universal limit. But it was true." Ericsson showed that the existing model of short-term memory was wrong. Memory wasn't like shoe size—it could be improved through training.
A famed 1956 paper by psychologist George Miller, called "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," established the rule that human short-term memory was limited to seven pieces of independent information (and gave Bell Telephone reason to settle on seven-digit phone numbers). The limit was called "channel capacity," and the capacity was believed to be as fixed as height or shoe size. Anders Ericsson set out to test Miller's theory in the simplest possible way: by training student volunteers to increase their capacity for memorizing strings of digits, as a new digit arrived once per second. To the scientific establishment, Ericsson's experiment seemed eccentric if not downright nuts, the equivalent of attempting to train people to increase their shoe size. Short-term memory was hardware. Seven digits was the limit; it didn't change. When one of Ericsson's student volunteers memorized an eighty-digit number, the scientific establishment wasn't sure what to think. When the second volunteer surpassed one hundred digits, Miller's number seven seemed to have been replaced by a magic of a different sort. "People were blown away," Ericsson remembered. "They couldn't believe that there wasn't a universal limit. But it was true." Ericsson showed that the existing model of short-term memory was wrong. Memory wasn't like shoe size—it could be improved through training.
So began Ericsson's thirty-year odyssey through the kingdom of talent. Ericsson explored all dimensions of skilled performance, studying nurses, gymnasts, violinists, and dart players; Scrabble players, typists, and S.W.A.T. officers. He did not measure their myelin. (He's a psychologist, not a neurologist, and besides, diffusion tensor imaging hadn't been invented yet.) Instead he studied the talent process from an equally vital angle: he measured practice. Specifically, he measured the time and characteristics of practice. Along with his colleagues in this field, Ericsson established a remarkable foundation of work (documented in several books and most recently in the appropriately Bible-size Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance). Its central tenet is a Gibraltar-like statistic: every expert in every field is the result of around ten thousand hours of committed practice. Ericsson called this process "deliberate practice" and defined it as working on technique, seeking constant critical feedback, and focusing ruthlessly on shoring up weaknesses. (For practical purposes, we can consider "deliberate practice" and "deep practice" to be basically the same thing.
Quick recap:
• Nobody is born with a specific talent. If you want to discover your talent, first define your goal. Talent is simply what you need to achieve your goal.
• Nobody is born with a specific talent. If you want to discover your talent, first define your goal. Talent is simply what you need to achieve your goal.
• The first process in building your talent is through DELIBERATE PRACTISE. Deliberate practise is a practise that involve committing as much mistake as possible. ''I don't make mistake; I only learn 9999 ways that willn't work''. That was Thomas Edison response when he was asked what kept him going after making 9999 errors before finally getting the incandescent bulb invention right.
Why is it that University graduates of public schools (State and Federal) are mostly more academically sound than their counterpart in Private schools? After all, the students in private schools have more comfortable resources available to them. How was it possible for a friend of mine in the University who told me his secondary school academic performance was poor; was able to graduate as one of the best student in his department?
What would you say of a boy tagged dullard by his teacher? He later invented and patented most inventions no inventor has been able to achieve in a lifetime even till now; he holds the record. I am talking of Thomas Edison! His written essays have been quoted by a lot of scholars like Napoleon Hill (that is fascinating of a boy called dullard).
Can you explain how Bessie Pender, a black American woman; who had been the cleaner in Larrymore Elementary School for over seventeen years, changed her dream and talent from being a good cleaner to becoming a great teacher. She actually became a teacher! There is always room at the top for people who are ready to pay the price to get there. In her words ''In college, some of my Professors told me 'You are not going to make it'. I got a D in geography in my first semester and I felt like a loser'
What would you say of a boy tagged dullard by his teacher? He later invented and patented most inventions no inventor has been able to achieve in a lifetime even till now; he holds the record. I am talking of Thomas Edison! His written essays have been quoted by a lot of scholars like Napoleon Hill (that is fascinating of a boy called dullard).
Can you explain how Bessie Pender, a black American woman; who had been the cleaner in Larrymore Elementary School for over seventeen years, changed her dream and talent from being a good cleaner to becoming a great teacher. She actually became a teacher! There is always room at the top for people who are ready to pay the price to get there. In her words ''In college, some of my Professors told me 'You are not going to make it'. I got a D in geography in my first semester and I felt like a loser'
Difficulty call out a great quality and make success possible -- Vanessa Williams (First black to win Miss America).
What made all of these people have mentioned above attain such feat of success is acquisition of the required skill and conversion of their skill to talent. Yes! You heard me right, conversion of their skill to talent.
You can never keep a courageous man or woman from success. Place stumbling blocks on their path and they will use them as stepping stones, and using them, they will climb to success -- Dennis Kimbro.
What is the difference between talent and skill?
Even though they might look alike they are really different. Very different than you might thought of.
Flowers are different from Mango even though they both use photosynthesis; Cats are different from Dogs even though they both have the same mode of metabolism and dentition.
When you say Skill, it simply means what someone knows how to do. That is why we say 'he is skilled at repairing of computers or any vocation we know the person with'. Also, a footballer is also refer as being skilled and any football lover here testify that the fact a player is skillful does not guarantee him winning any notable award such as Ballon d'or, Highest goal scorer and European or African footballer. All footballer possesses the skill of football! In fact, anybody that can play football (even you if you do play), possess the skill of football.
Then how is talent different from skill? Let me elucidate that continuing with my analogy of footballers. Although, everybody who can play football possess the skill of football, the possessed skill level differs. The hour put into mastering a skill is the differentiating factor of individuals’ skill. A skill will evolve into talent after a lot of rigorous practice. However, no talent is achieved by practicing hard rather only through deliberate practise. To better understand how skill evolve into talent, follow me into this small room where most skepticism is defeated, a place where many things we now know and understand today was discovered. Enter as I open the door to the room of SCIENCE! Nothing to be scared of thou.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND TALENT
Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.
Every new learned skill is always recorded in the brain by different nerve fibers coming together to form a particular pattern for the skill. When we try to remember them, the brain fires a circuit like action that makes the fibers assume the shape they were when the skill was learn. But there is an insulator surrounding this circuit called Myelin.
It becomes thicker around the nerve fibers the more the skill is practiced. Therefore, myelin thickness can help to determine talent.
Every new learned skill is always recorded in the brain by different nerve fibers coming together to form a particular pattern for the skill. When we try to remember them, the brain fires a circuit like action that makes the fibers assume the shape they were when the skill was learn. But there is an insulator surrounding this circuit called Myelin.
It becomes thicker around the nerve fibers the more the skill is practiced. Therefore, myelin thickness can help to determine talent.
Myelin
Every human skill, whether it's playing basketball or playing football, is created by chains of nerve fibers carrying a tiny electrical impulse—basically, a signal traveling through a circuit. Myelin's vital role is to wrap those nerve fibers the same way that rubber insulation wraps a copper wire, making the signal stronger and faster by preventing the electrical impulses from leaking out. When we fire our circuits in the right way—when we practice swinging that bat or playing that note—our myelin responds by wrapping layers of insulation around that neural circuit, each new layer adding a bit more skill and speed. The thicker the myelin gets, the better it insulates, and the faster and more accurate our movements and thoughts become.
Every expert in every field is the result of around ten thousand hours of committed practice. Ericsson called this process "deliberate practice" and defined it as working on technique, seeking constant critical feedback, and focusing ruthlessly on shoring up weaknesses. (For practical purposes, we can consider "deliberate practice" and "deep practice" to be basically the same thing.
In Genius Explained
, Dr. Michael Howe of Exeter University estimates that Mozart, by his sixth birthday, had studied 3,500 hours of music with his instructor-father, a fact that places his musical memory in the realm of impressive but obtainable skill (Daniel Coyle).Every human skill, whether it's playing basketball or playing football, is created by chains of nerve fibers carrying a tiny electrical impulse—basically, a signal traveling through a circuit. Myelin's vital role is to wrap those nerve fibers the same way that rubber insulation wraps a copper wire, making the signal stronger and faster by preventing the electrical impulses from leaking out. When we fire our circuits in the right way—when we practice swinging that bat or playing that note—our myelin responds by wrapping layers of insulation around that neural circuit, each new layer adding a bit more skill and speed. The thicker the myelin gets, the better it insulates, and the faster and more accurate our movements and thoughts become.
Every expert in every field is the result of around ten thousand hours of committed practice. Ericsson called this process "deliberate practice" and defined it as working on technique, seeking constant critical feedback, and focusing ruthlessly on shoring up weaknesses. (For practical purposes, we can consider "deliberate practice" and "deep practice" to be basically the same thing.
In Genius Explained
Still not convince nobody is born a genius? Check out this short biography of Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods grew up in Orange County, California. He was a child prodigy, introduced to golf before the age of two, by his athletic father Earl, a single-figure handicap amateur golfer who had been one of the earliest African-American college baseball players at Kansas State University. Being a member of the military, Tiger's father had playing privileges at the Navy golf course beside the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, which allowed Tiger to play there. Tiger also played at the par 3 Heartwell golf course in Long Beach, as well as some of the municipals in Long Beach.
When Woods first joined the PGA Tour in 1996, his long drives had a large impact on the world of golf. However, when he did not upgrade his equipment in the following years (insisting upon the use of True Temper Dynamic Gold steel-shafted clubs and smaller steel club heads that promoted accuracy over distance), many opponents caught up to him. Phil Mickelson even made a joke in 2003 about Woods using "inferior equipment", which did not sit well with Nike, Titleist or Woods. During 2004, Woods finally upgraded his driver technology to a larger club head and graphite shaft, which, coupled with his club head speed, made him one of the Tour's lengthiest players off the tee once again.
Despite his power advantage, Woods has always focused on developing an excellent all-around game. This is where the line is drawn between skill and talent (my inclusion) Extracted from Wikipedia
A Professor of neurology discovered some outstanding answers to some long time questions, sit back and read through:
George Bartzokis is a professor of neurology at UCLA. Most of the time Bartzokis, who's in his fifties, resembles the sober, distinguished researcher and teacher he is: shirt and tie, neatly combed hair, courtly manner. But when he talks about myelin, something within him quickens. He leans forward hungrily. His eyes gleam; he smiles hugely. He looks as if he might suddenly leap out of his chair. Bartzokis does not want to behave in this way, but he can't help it. Around UCLA, he is known as "Mr. Myelin."
"Why do teenagers make bad decisions?" he asks, not waiting for an answer "Because all the neurons are there, but they are not fully insulated. Until the whole circuit is insulated, that circuit, although capable, will not be instantly available to alter impulsive behavior as it's happening. Teens understand right and wrong, but it takes them time to figure it out.
"Why is wisdom most often found in older people? Because their circuits are fully insulated and instantly available to them; they can do very complicated processing on many levels, which is really what wisdom is. The volume of myelin in the brain continues to increase until around fifty, and you have to remember that it is alive: it is breaking down, and we are rebuilding it. Complex tasks like ruling countries or writing novels—these are most often better done by people who have built the most myelin.
"Why can't monkeys—which have every neuron type and neurotransmitter we have—use language the way we do?" he continues. "Because we've got twenty percent more myelin. To talk like we are now takes a lot of information-processing speed, and they have no broadband. Sure, you can teach a monkey to communicate at the level of a three-year-old, but beyond that, they are using the equivalent of copper wires."
Try to memorize these two sentences.
"Why do teenagers make bad decisions?" he asks, not waiting for an answer "Because all the neurons are there, but they are not fully insulated. Until the whole circuit is insulated, that circuit, although capable, will not be instantly available to alter impulsive behavior as it's happening. Teens understand right and wrong, but it takes them time to figure it out.
"Why is wisdom most often found in older people? Because their circuits are fully insulated and instantly available to them; they can do very complicated processing on many levels, which is really what wisdom is. The volume of myelin in the brain continues to increase until around fifty, and you have to remember that it is alive: it is breaking down, and we are rebuilding it. Complex tasks like ruling countries or writing novels—these are most often better done by people who have built the most myelin.
"Why can't monkeys—which have every neuron type and neurotransmitter we have—use language the way we do?" he continues. "Because we've got twenty percent more myelin. To talk like we are now takes a lot of information-processing speed, and they have no broadband. Sure, you can teach a monkey to communicate at the level of a three-year-old, but beyond that, they are using the equivalent of copper wires."
Try to memorize these two sentences.
We climbed Mount Everest on a Tuesday morning.
Gn inromya Dseut Anotser ev e Tnuomde bmilcew.
Gn inromya Dseut Anotser ev e Tnuomde bmilcew.
The two sentences contain the same characters, just like de Groot's chessboards, except in the second sentence the order of those letters is reversed. The reason you can understand, recall, and manipulate the first sentence is that, like the chess masters or baseball fans, you have spent many hours learning and practicing a cognitive game known as reading.
The Second thing to do to Build/Develop your talent is:
IMITATE
Get a role model. Always take them as a target you need to reach, however be cautious in this endeavor read my blog post on that http://trivalenceaskme.blogspot.com/2017/02/only-learn-this-from-your-role-models.html
Get a role model. Always take them as a target you need to reach, however be cautious in this endeavor read my blog post on that http://trivalenceaskme.blogspot.com/2017/02/only-learn-this-from-your-role-models.html
Always say to yourself, if they can do it, why can't I.
The third,
TAKE IT SLOWLY
Don't expect to be there overnight, it takes persistence and determination. Choose a target for each day, and ensure you achieve it before moving to the next. I could remember a shared post on the group sometimes ago, ''If you improve by 1% everyday, you would have improved by 365% in a year''.
Don't expect to be there overnight, it takes persistence and determination. Choose a target for each day, and ensure you achieve it before moving to the next. I could remember a shared post on the group sometimes ago, ''If you improve by 1% everyday, you would have improved by 365% in a year''.
The fourth,
ATTACH EMOTION
Without emotion, you can never feel what you are doing. Always remember why you decided to acquire or build the talent you are working at. Only this would keep you going even when everything and everyone keeps discouraging you.
Fake it until you become it and not until you make it.
Always remember where you are going is different from that of everybody around you, so you cannot act and behave stupidly as they do. Let them call you names; time will tell.
Without emotion, you can never feel what you are doing. Always remember why you decided to acquire or build the talent you are working at. Only this would keep you going even when everything and everyone keeps discouraging you.
Fake it until you become it and not until you make it.
Always remember where you are going is different from that of everybody around you, so you cannot act and behave stupidly as they do. Let them call you names; time will tell.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY & EARN A LIVING WITH YOUR TALENT.
You need to know and understand there are three stages you would encounter if you want to make money or successful at all with your talent.
1) A stage your talent will be laughed at.
At this stage, your performance is not up to par. It is very far from people's gauging meter. They have seen people like you and they are far ahead of you as regard performance. Everybody does it! That a look at this, you saw a boy playing around and one of the people around you called the boy to crack a joke of him. It is said that the boy always say he wants to become a musician. When the boy was asked to sing, everybody busted into laughter including you. Why? The reason is simple. We already have a parameter for judging the boy. We expected to hear something like Tu-Baba or Olamide's level performance from the boy, but we are disappointed. You can argue you weren't comparing the boy to a star you know instantly (the truth is always bitter thou ).
I experienced this recently in a seminar I organized for Secondary School Students which I invited a great friend to anchor the section on HOW TO ANSWER WAEC QUESTIONS. I anchored the section on CHOOSING A CAREER and we had this boy who said he wanted to become an Artiste. I asked him to perform for us and all the students in the room busted into laughter; I immediately discouraged such and encouraged him; emphasizing to him he should persist if and only if that is his dream (passion). Anyway time will tell if it is truly his passion. I will be glad to see him at the top.
Check out my blog on how to overcome people's discouragement when your talent is being laughed at http://trivalenceaskme.blogspot.com.ng/2016/08/how-to-love-what-you-are-doing-and-be.html?m=1
At this stage, your performance is not up to par. It is very far from people's gauging meter. They have seen people like you and they are far ahead of you as regard performance. Everybody does it! That a look at this, you saw a boy playing around and one of the people around you called the boy to crack a joke of him. It is said that the boy always say he wants to become a musician. When the boy was asked to sing, everybody busted into laughter including you. Why? The reason is simple. We already have a parameter for judging the boy. We expected to hear something like Tu-Baba or Olamide's level performance from the boy, but we are disappointed. You can argue you weren't comparing the boy to a star you know instantly (the truth is always bitter thou ).
I experienced this recently in a seminar I organized for Secondary School Students which I invited a great friend to anchor the section on HOW TO ANSWER WAEC QUESTIONS. I anchored the section on CHOOSING A CAREER and we had this boy who said he wanted to become an Artiste. I asked him to perform for us and all the students in the room busted into laughter; I immediately discouraged such and encouraged him; emphasizing to him he should persist if and only if that is his dream (passion). Anyway time will tell if it is truly his passion. I will be glad to see him at the top.
Check out my blog on how to overcome people's discouragement when your talent is being laughed at http://trivalenceaskme.blogspot.com.ng/2016/08/how-to-love-what-you-are-doing-and-be.html?m=1
2) A stage when you will be underpaid for your talent.
Kudos! You made a progress at this stage. People no longer laugh at you, but they would barely recommend you for a big deal.
'He is a good singer but he can't handle the type of program we want to host'
'She is really trying with programming but I don't think she could code the application you want; she is still learning'. These are some of the describing words used for people who are at this stage.
They are always underpaid for their expertise. They don't have a reputation to command large chunks of cash. They had even been compensated most of the time with thank you without cash. But the wise in this stage who is ready to join the BBC (Big Boys Club) will offer free service as much as possible to build reputation.
Kudos! You made a progress at this stage. People no longer laugh at you, but they would barely recommend you for a big deal.
'He is a good singer but he can't handle the type of program we want to host'
'She is really trying with programming but I don't think she could code the application you want; she is still learning'. These are some of the describing words used for people who are at this stage.
They are always underpaid for their expertise. They don't have a reputation to command large chunks of cash. They had even been compensated most of the time with thank you without cash. But the wise in this stage who is ready to join the BBC (Big Boys Club) will offer free service as much as possible to build reputation.
3) A stage when you will be overpaid for your talent.
This is the big boys stage. People at this stage are being criticized for charging or earning too much for less work done. You need an example? Have gotten one for you. Read African Leadership post about Atunyota Alleluya Akporobomerere, stage name Ali Baba
This is the big boys stage. People at this stage are being criticized for charging or earning too much for less work done. You need an example? Have gotten one for you. Read African Leadership post about Atunyota Alleluya Akporobomerere, stage name Ali Baba
Alibaba:
With over thirty years of performing on stage and hosting events for almost all Nigeria’s former presidents and the present one, Ali Baba sits at the apex. Even President Olusegun Obasanjo once jokingly accused him of being overpaid for his performance. His Lekki mansion where he lives is said to be worth more than N300 million alone.
Alibaba makes his money through a chain of businesses in Lagos: as a reputed motivational speaker, a professional comedian patronized by almost all the big brands and political bigwigs in the country. His net worth is estimated to be over 3 billion naira. It is estimated that he performs in a minimum of two events weekly at an average rate of 4 to 4.5million naira per event. That would add up to about 400 million naira per annum!
With over thirty years of performing on stage and hosting events for almost all Nigeria’s former presidents and the present one, Ali Baba sits at the apex. Even President Olusegun Obasanjo once jokingly accused him of being overpaid for his performance. His Lekki mansion where he lives is said to be worth more than N300 million alone.
Alibaba makes his money through a chain of businesses in Lagos: as a reputed motivational speaker, a professional comedian patronized by almost all the big brands and political bigwigs in the country. His net worth is estimated to be over 3 billion naira. It is estimated that he performs in a minimum of two events weekly at an average rate of 4 to 4.5million naira per event. That would add up to about 400 million naira per annum!
Now you know the stages you will go through to earn money and a living with your talent; have you ever consider how to know how much to charge for your talent? Because of the required lengthy explanation of this - it is like a Webinar on its own, so I decided to get an alternative. Here you have it https://www.entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/pricing-a-service
Check out the website and tutor yourself.
Check out the website and tutor yourself.
This brings us to the end of the Webinar Talent: How to Identify, Build/Develop and earn money with your talent.
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