Have you ever questioned what you were meant to do with your life? Or rather questioned whether or not you are good enough to do your dream job?
Thinking you are not good enough to accomplish your dreams “simply” because you weren’t born able to do it is one of those grand philosophical notions that is anything but simple.
First issue: How do we know what are born capable of?
Second issue: Who decided these limits?
Third issue: We as humans have time and time again broken our “limits” and surpassed and redefined the impossible.
So I can’t give way to the notion that “I wasn’t born able to do it, so I can’t” because no one was born able to do anything. Instead, they were given the potential to do everything.
Truth be told, there are a lot of things I don’t believe I can do, but it is my mindset that “I can’t” that is holding me back.
Yes, there are those with better affinity to learn or do a skill or task, but as long as people are willing to take on the challenge of surpassing their “presets,” I believe beating those with better affinities or more talent will never be impossible.
In case, this ideal alone is not enough to convince you to look towards some of those “impossible” achievements of those both real and unreal. Just think about Orville and Wilbur Wright as they proved that birds weren’t the only ones meant for the sky.
Better yet, think of the dark knight of Gotham. He wasn’t born the hero that we see today. He trained and studied and practiced to become the legend we all know. These same actions can be applied to us all.
No one is born great. We all are born starting with nothing, and we move forward from there. We keep moving forward until something causes us to believe there is something we can’t do. When this happens, we avoid the thing we “can’t” do and because of this, we only get worse at the thing we “couldn’t” do.
In order to win against this cycle, we must be confident in what we want to do and work towards our dreams. I believe that is all that is required to make it happen.