{"id":115,"date":"2009-03-27T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hp.com\/hpcoach\/2008\/08\/15\/what-world-class-talent-do-you-have-hidden-within-yourself\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T23:53:47","slug":"what-world-class-talent-do-you-have-hidden-within-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/what-world-class-talent-do-you-have-hidden-within-yourself","title":{"rendered":"What world-class talent do you have hidden within yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2008gamesbeijing.com\/images\/beijing-olympic-rings.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\" align=\"right\" \/>Oh, I&#8217;m such a sucker for the Olympics.\u00a0 What touches me is the idea that ordinary talent becomes truly extraordinary when you work hard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And in a way, that&#8217;s what drew me to the profession of coaching.\u00a0 I see people doing amazing, wonderful things, just because they were able to apply their energy in a focused way.\u00a0 Things which seemed unreachable become within your grasp.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve experienced this directly myself, going after my own life and career goals.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought that I&#8217;d still be enjoying a career thirty years later?\u00a0 It&#8217;s only because I&#8217;ve been able to learn, grow, and achieve important things over such a long time.<\/p>\n<p>And the stuff I&#8217;m working on now would have been inconceivable to me ten years ago.\u00a0 For me, the idea of planning out an entire career is quite foreign &#8211; I don&#8217;t feel a need to think out more than five years or so.\u00a0 Instead, I found particular things that I could get passionate about, and kept with them until they&#8217;ve run their course, or it feels like time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been a lousy athlete, I&#8217;ve come to peace with that.\u00a0 My expertise lies in other areas, and that&#8217;s quite OK.\u00a0 But I have tremendous admiration for what competitors bring out of themselves in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>What world-class talent do you have hidden within yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I&#8217;m such a sucker for the Olympics.\u00a0 What touches me is the idea that ordinary talent becomes truly extraordinary when you work hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-115","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}