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Thoughts on natural talent and building a team around you in areas you’re not a strong.

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Talent is a curse.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I don’t necessarily mean my talent, and I don’t really mean that it’s always a curse. But I think oftentimes we take talent, we take natural genius, and so forth, and we kind of put it on a pedestal, and act like that is really where it’s at, and that those people have it.

So sad, this is why the whole concept of privilege anything is is kind of a misnomer. Because anytime you’re you are ever set ahead in any way. There’s always something else, or multiple things holding you back.

Because you get spoiled with the things that come natural to you. I’ll give you a great example that this idea came back to me today, when I was watching my son Tyler in jujitsu. So my son Tyler, if you’ve haven’t seen him go back last week, we had a we had a great talk with him, as he was showing off one of his toys, and he’s seven years old.

He’s He’s larger than most kids his age, taller, just a bigger, bigger kid in general, which is common on both sides of our family.

So I was similar, though not quite so early. But I went through a period of time where my I went through a growth spurt and passed up a lot of people my age, and got to about the size, I’m at now height wise, maybe a little bit taller by seventh grade.

And so I was a good size seventh grader did not grow much beyond that, but stopped at that point.

So I got to see him and go back to Tyler got to see him in jujitsu today. And he he’s with the younger kids, but he’s one of the largest kids there.

In fact, last week, they kind of had a little sparring thing where they all kind of took turns having to at a time try and take each other down.

Well, once Tyler got up, nobody else could take him down. You know, that’s the whole King of the Hill type thing.

We used to play King of the Hill when I was a kid also where you just have everybody kind of go at it and try and take down one person, whoever could stay standing the longest was the winner.

And I got to an age where I was the winner just about every time we’d play tackle football in a very similar way, as a as a kid where everybody would try I’d have the whole class of guys hanging off of me trying to pull me down and I realized that, hey, I can keep going.

It’s not and I could just trudge along and get the get the football across the other side was only me and another, another person, my age would be able to do that. And my son’s got the same thing. Nobody could take him down.

And that seems like a great talent and seems like something really amazing. The thing is, it caught up with me.

I was lucky enough to stop growing.

And all of that what I considered talent when I thought I was pretty good at sports for a certain period of time. That all went away pretty quickly.

So I was pretty decent at football. For the first few years. I was the most improved player for my freshman year. And did pretty good all the way up until I came back.

Junior year and everyone had shot up over me, and I was now the the tiny guy on the football team.

It’s a little difficult from that point forward.

In fact, I did not play from varsity on I realized pretty early on that this was not going to be what it was before. You get spoiled in whatever comes natural, whether it’s physically natural, or emotionally natural or me It could be the way you’re raised.

It could be the way just something that comes to you be a personality or what have you, and you get spoiled than that.

And a lot of times you could take it for granted.

This is why you oftentimes see people that do great over long periods of time in a certain area in life and as soon as that’s taken away from them, their whole life crumbles.

Because they don’t have anything they haven’t that all the other parts in their life have atrophied in a sense. those muscles have atrophied their ability to work with other people their ability to do different things.

It all goes away because they focus so hard in the one area that they did best. Now, how do you get around that?

You got to know what you’re best at. You got to know where your strengths are. A

nd you’ve got to look to hire people who have strengths in the other areas, natural tendencies toward one area or another. You got to do this throughout your entire business.

If you’re a business owner, if you’re an executive, and a lot of the people that watch this are, that’s what you have to do when you’re hiring you hire for your weaknesses.

For other people’s strengths, you hire people stronger in those areas to pick up the pick up the pieces, so that your business can can continue growing and moving along. E

very time you find that hole that isn’t covered by the current teammates, you’ve got to fill that hole with somebody that’s got that, focus on doing that. And then you have to go through quite a few people to find the people the best character, find people that are aligned with the vision of your company, and so forth.

But it all really comes down to knowing yourself, and not getting too caught up with your strengths.

But at the same time, realizing what you do have as natural strengths, using it to the best of your ability, and really, really, really honing in on your weaknesses.

Not that you need to focus on overcoming all your weaknesses, but that you have to know what you’re not good at naturally, what doesn’t come natural to you, you should outsource not that you shouldn’t get better in certain areas.

But you’ll figure out what those are. I think we all have a piece of the puzzle. In life, we all have a little piece and we all got to put our pieces together and find where it all fits, and it’s gonna be different.

We’re going to we’re going to be creating different puzzles at different times in our lives. But there’s someone out there who can help you complete your puzzle.

Hopefully, that whole thing makes sense to you. If you like if you’re looking for some additional help in the area of strategy, that’s something that has, I’ve gotten good at skill wise.

But the idea of taking these ideas, taking these concepts I should say, taking these concepts and making them bite size to where they’re understandable to where either you could do it on your own, or you can bring me on to help you to do it or you can bring me on to help your team to do it.

Go check out my book, there’s a first place I send everyone has, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com or you can order it wherever books are sold.

You can have it tonight, you can get the get it get the free copy by going to AmazonProofBook.com.

Or you can get a hardcover, wait, wait a day or two for that to show up. Hopefully you’re having a great night. Great. And you had a wonderful weekend.

We’ll be back here tomorrow, we’re here on a regular basis.

So come on back and where we’ll talk more about principles, strategies and tactics to help you grow your business.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.