Before trying to pursue a significant goal, especially a professional one, it’s important to assess whether you have the ability to achieve it.
Consider two things:
- Do you have the required core capacities: knowledge, skills and personal characteristics?
- Are your capacities as good as or better than those of other people with the same goal?
If you answer no to either question, you should consider revising your goal. If you answer yes to both, make sure you’re not succumbing to one of these five common fallacies:
The hard-work fallacy
Believing that determined effort will compensate for your shortcomings
The smarts fallacy
Thinking that general intelligence translates into specific skills
The magnification fallacy
Assuming that your particular talent is somehow more special than your peers’
The passion fallacy
Believing you’re good at things just because you really enjoy them or because they are immensely important to you
The ‘wishing will make it so’ fallacy
Convincing yourself that success (for you, anyway) will be easy
(Courtesy: Harvard Business Review)
Having reached a 'decent' position,to share what U know with people in need & to share with them the struggle for success....not many are ready to do this.May U be an example & a role model to the budding youngsters.May you win many more laurels & great heights for ur 'generosity'.Hats off to U Father.May God bless U now& always.
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