The billionaire Warren Buffett says that improving your public-speaking skills will boost your professional value by 50% instantly. Why? Because you’re only as valuable as your ideas, and ideas don’t sell themselves. Great speakers attract investors, sell products, build companies, inspire teams, and spark movements.
Find your passion, sell your ideas.
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.” – writes Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges in his work, ” The Intellectual Life”.
So what is needed to thrive in the post-COVID19 economy ? We need 2 key skills that connects the science of learning, concentration and productivity.
1. Quickly master hard things.
2. Produce at an elite level, in terms of quality and speed.
The world is full of hard and scary things. We are at best when we tackle them bravely and confidently. In applying Antonin words, we must need to advance the relevant topics systematically with intense concentration and intense practice. Yes, it may be really hard to master hard things, but remember most good things are.
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University has this quote, “You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns“. The most basic truth is your inputs are very closely tied to your outputs. At professions, where inputs and outputs are highly connected, it’s very hard to create opulence for yourself in that process.
Remember there is a sense of hypocrisy when it comes to normalcy, some exhibits behavior that was precisely the opposite of what they advocated and also what they claimed they did. Those who have abnormal returns don’t act; those who act normal don’t have abnormal returns.
Maverick 