"Beginner's Luck" a hoax?
I have been really contemplating this issue over the past few days and even weeks now:
Is "Beginner's Luck" real or false.
What I mean is... I and many people I know personally do extremely well on things when I try them the first time and slowly, as I start to learn more of it, that "success" starts to fade away. Not necessarily in monetary terms.
For example, you may have an unorthodox way playing certain sports, but still succeed but later on you are told that it is wrong and you stop doing it and stop succeeding.
It applies to our lives because we all know the dreaded "information overload" and I constantly get emails and see folks trying something, it mildly working for them and then after a while it just doesn't work anymore.
Now, I'm not a psychologist, statistician or a scientist but I always felt that if we can harness this "power" of doing very well the first around and if we are able to maintain it, we can sustain the success graph.
For some weird reason I listened to Napoleon Hill's stuff again and he talked about something that all made sense to me in a split second at around 3:30AM in the morning.
He said "Anything you do must be done with enthusiasm, even if you hate the job, still do it with enthusiasm, and it will not only enrich your life, but also enrich other people's lives as you are noticed by others"
Although a little out of contest, it all makes sense. When we all begin something, a sport, a new strategy to improve our business or anything else, we have that initial enthusiasm, that confidence of "I'm not afraid to fail or not relying on the outcome, I just want to try out something new and have fun."
It reminds me of every successful person who says "do what you love and you'll automatically succeed" maybe what they meant to say was "do what you love and you will automatically have the enthusiasm that will guide you to success"
Since we are in a recession right now where majority of the folks are actually depressed, most for no other reason but that fact that they are listening to the news, maybe being enthusiastic and believing in yourself will trump anything?
Just wanted to share a 3:30AM moment with you guys that I'm still trying to make sense of.
So my question is, do you believe that beginner's luck is a true phenomenon or is it hoax.
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ChristianM -
Thanks
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