What If You Have No Talent?

Here are your options.

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If you’re like me, you are a talentless hack. You have little to no talent.

(If you’re NOT a talentless hack and do have talent, skip to the end).

Nothing seems to come easy when other people seem to fly by. You can’t quite do the things you want to do in the way you want to them. You try and nothing seems to work. You thought you wanted to do something one day, only to realize the next day that you didn’t.

You know how to fail. A lot.

If that sounds like you, here are your options:

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1. Give Up.

You are a talentless hack so you should give up.

This is a pretty good option, especially in the short run. Giving up feels so good. (I prefer giving up to quitting, because quitting I think is more strategic or something.) But for real giving up? That means turning in a whole new direction. That means not looking back. I…