Mirza Yawar Baig – How to become the Best

Talent is overrated. How many of you think that is an outrageous

statement?

Let me make another one.

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.

Thoughtful. Practice

makes perfect.

Wolfgang Mozart, the great composer, one of the greatest of

all time.

How many of you believe that he this was a God given talent for

him? I

The truth.

Wolfgang Mozart started playing the piano at age three.

He used to watch his elder sister nano Mozart playing the piano.

Nano was a pianist, and she was also a composer.

Their father, Leopold Mozart, was a violinist and a composer, and he

was focused on making both his children great musicians.

Wolfgang Mozart,

at age five, composed his first piece of music, a very simple

piece of music.

But between age three and age five, he played, he played the

piano every day for many hours.

At age six, his father took both the children

on a tour of Europe, and they did that

always, many times

during the store tour, they played for the nobility, the royalty of

Europe.

They had access to the best musicians of the time, and Mozart

grew up in an atmosphere of music

a dolphin

swims beautifully.

Is that a talent,

or is it the result of being born in a dolphin family and living in

the ocean,

Tiger Woods was born

not with a silver spoon in his mouth, but with a Golden miniature

golf club in his mouth because Tiger Woods

got his first golf club hold your breath at the age of six months,

not years,

because his father was an expert golfer,

and he was also single mindedly focused on making his his son into

a champion golfer.

So at age six months, he gets his first golf club.

At age three, he goes to the first golf club

and tees off on a green. But between six months and three

years, Little Tiger Woods is playing golf every single day of

his life.

How many swings did he take?

How many mulligans did he have to give up? And

then from the age of three,

we have what we know,

and that's what brings me to this word, thoughtful practice. My

first statement, talent is overrated, is the title of a book

by Jeff Colwyn, which I strongly recommend that you read. It has a

lot of case studies. The two I mentioned to you are from that

thoughtful practice. Is this is a term that he uses in that book,

thoughtful practice, hitting 10 golf balls, thoughtfully meaning

with a conscious intent. And according to a system,

with a conscious instant, and according to a system is better

than hitting 1000 golf balls with your mind somewhere else.

And that I with that, I want to introduce you to another book

by Malcolm Gladwell, called outliers and to his concept

of

10,000 hours

combining the 210 1000 hours of thoughtful practice.

Is the difference between somebody who does something for 4000 hours,

for 6000 hours, for 8000 hours and for 10,000 hours. The difference

between 8000 hours and 10,000 hours is exponential.

Read that book as well.

My submission to you, therefore, is

it's never too late to start to do what you really want to achieve in

life,

provided

you are clear headed in your mind

that you are ready for thoughtful practice and for hours and hours

and hours and hours and hours of that.

It's not easy. But then

ask yourself,

is it worth

being the majority of the Tiger Woods of your world?

Because I want to end with my quote,

anything done

with conscious intent,

and according to a system, gives value added results. You pick up a

20 kilo suitcase from the luggage Caruso

at an airport, and you throw out your back.

You pick up the same 20 kilograms in a gym,

according to a system, thoughtfully

under the eye of a coach, and you build muscles.

One breaks your back, the other one strengthens your back.

The weight is the same. You are the same. The difference

is you do it thoughtfully,

consciously, and you do it according to a system.

Thank you very much. Have a great life. You.