How to Reinvent Yourself and Become the Best Version of Yourself This Year
“Talent helps, but it won’t take you as far as ambition.” -Paul Arden
There are so many people in the world that are so much more talented than you.
They’re sexier. Smarter. Richer. More creative. More likable, more charming, better-connected, and better-looking.
But there is one, singular thing you can do better than them:
You can outwork them.
As Paul Arden wrote in “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be, “Nearly all rich and powerful and successful people are not notably talented, educated, charming, or good-looking.” For every Kim Kardashian or LeBron James or Bill Gates, there are a thousand unremarkable people who still achieved extraordinary things through consistency and commitment to their craft.
Prolific actor Will Smith was once asked how he got to be so successful in his career:
“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s…
