Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten » Inspiration http://bomega.com Internet Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Blogger Thu, 24 May 2012 09:02:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Interview http://bomega.com/2011/02/16/interview-2/ http://bomega.com/2011/02/16/interview-2/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:53:31 +0000 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://bomega.com/?p=1349

At the MWG event last week.

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They were both right, of course.

It is easy to discard anything you are good at as nothing special. You make something and when someone praises you it sounds unfair. You reply “Well, I don’t deserve credit for that. It didn’t take any effort. I just happen to know how to do that”

If you are talented (and everybody is) the things you ‘know’ don’t seem that special. You just know things and they seem to come natural. Why brag about it?

Please do brag about it. Make a list of things you can do. Brag all you want.

You might think “everybody knows how to do that”. Chances are you are wrong. What you know (and the combination of things you know) is special and extraordinary. Often we say “As we both know…”. In most cases, we DON’T both know. Even when it seems logical to you that what you know is common knowledge, it probably isn’t.

The girlfriend in the story above knows her boyfriend very well. One of his talents is that he knows how to prepare a good dinner. Didn’t seem to take much effort. Doing what you like doing never feels like work. Although she was dividing what had to be done by input (the chores that take effort) he was diving by output (the result of all the chores put together).

What are your talents, skills and what unique knowledge do you possess?

Jumping Mother and Father

My parents….

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Multiple Personality Disorder

The original article can be read here, in Dutch.

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More information at Bowlr.nl

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Check out the website: MTV Shorts

Photo: Daniel J. Ashes.

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