{"id":1817,"date":"2009-06-16T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:46","slug":"everything-youre-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/06\/16\/everything-youre-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You&#8217;re Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><h3><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8230; is a waste of your time.<\/h3>\n<p>I used to think I could be anything I wanted to be. But in reality I knew that made no sense. Now I know why. <strong>You can\u2019t be anything you want to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No matter how hard I try, some things I just don\u2019t excel in. Some things come harder to me. Well, \u2018who cares\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Society has long emphasized that we focus on and improve on our weaknesses. Just think of all the heart-wrenching American underdog films that exist. There\u2019s <em><a title=\"Rudy on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108002\/\">Rudy<\/a> (<\/em>the movie tagline? &#8220;When people say dreams don&#8217;t come true, tell them about Rudy&#8221;), <a title=\"Dodgeball on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0364725\/\"><em>Dodgeball<\/em><\/a> (&#8220;a true underdog story&#8221;), and the yearly (monthly?) movie about a struggling baseball\/football\/basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it\u2019s heartwarming when someone overcomes a lack of talent. But besides that, what\u2019s the point? Why spend countless hours focusing on what you aren&#8217;t good at?<\/p>\n<h3>Why not just focus on your strengths?<\/h3>\n<p>You are valuable because of what you do well, what you excel in, what your talents are, not what is hard for you. Perfection is overrated and impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The key to personal development is building on who you already are. <strong>There is extraordinary room for growth there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <a title=\"Dr. Martin Seligman author of Authentic Happiness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu\/Default.aspx\">Dr. Martin Seligman<\/a> author of <em>Authentic Happiness<\/em> notes, &#8220;you cannot be anything you want to be \u2013 but you can be a lot more of who you already are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"genius\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/genius.jpg\" alt=\"genius\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8230; is a waste of your time.<\/h3>\n<p>I used to think I could be anything I wanted to be. But in reality I knew that made no sense. Now I know why. <strong>You can\u2019t be anything you want to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No matter how hard I try, some things I just don\u2019t excel in. Some things come harder to me. Well, \u2018who cares\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Society has long emphasized that we focus on and improve on our weaknesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11140,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/11140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}