Why Most Talented People are NOT Successful? Are You One of Them?
Here are the reasons.
Most talented people are perfectionists.
They won’t delegate — out of fear that the other person might perfect it.
They want to do everything by themselves. But if they invest their time spent on non-core tasks they will accomplish much greater outcomes.
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
For them, significant or insignificant, they want everything should be done their way.
They can’t compromise with the results.
Do you know the Pareto’s Principle?
80% of the outcome will be from the 20% work.
To achieve the remaining — final 20% outcome (perfecting) you may need to put 80% of your time and effort.
So they put a lot into reaping less.
For them, the ROI is always less. They suck at managing resources and marketing.
Most talented players are bad team players. And they have less emotional intelligence.
If you want to move fast — go alone
If you want to go a long way — take your team with you.
The next reason,
They don’t multiply themselves
If they have the patience to teach others they will gain the ability to do more through them.
Talented people who lack the skill of teaching, communicating, and stating clearly what they want won’t grow beyond a certain level.
They are limited by themselves. When they stop, their growth stops.
I know people who hate teaching the skills to their followers. Instead, they will do things by themselves — thinking teaching them is a waste of time.
But if you teach someone under you, they can replicate things for a long into the future.
They need to consider teaching as an investment. They need to treat the learning period of their team as a foundation.
Expect 80%
If someone can do your task and can produce 80% of the output that you can produce by yourself, then delegate.
Accept the 20% deficiency.
But talented people will never let go of things like this.
If you’re not ready to lose some points here, you can’t gain great points at your core work.
Minimum viable product
Put out your product to the world as early as possible. Be ready to be embarrassed by your first iteration.
But, talented people can’t stand releasing a product that is not perfect.
This put them last in the market. Even though their product deserved to be at first rank, it was not available when people wanted it most.
Bragging
They brag about how much they did to perfect their work.
They don’t know how least that perfection contributed to the users.
In my experience, they want others to listen when they get high in explaining how they did things. They don’t take criticism well. They usually get angry when you give them feedback.
They always think they’re always right.
Hustling dope
They want to do things in hard way.
For them, if it is not the hard way, it is not the right way.
They get high in complicating things and then simplifying them later.
They don’t want an easy win. Ironically those who want an easy win are not that talented.
Closed chamber
They are good at what they do. Very bad at other things. And don’t want to admit it.
They never leave it to experts.
If they can do 30% of what experts can do, they want to do it on their own.
Most are victims of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
If you want someone to understand why they fail despite their huge talent, just forward this to him/her.
