Originally Posted by Relentless

Not sure where the animosity is coming from Dynamo, it seems I had a more enjoyable evening than you tonight. I don't believe people can gain a trait they don't have, I do believe people can polish traits they do have. Being steady-handed doesn't guarantee you will be a successful surgeon or pool hall owner. That wasn't what he, or I, am saying. Aiming for opportunities matched to your traits would seem to make your chance of success higher and his point was that most people don't even bother to identify their own. That being great pool because you have steady hands and good visualization abilities makes a business involving photography a better opportunity if you can apply those traits to it I'm ways they would be more effective on the outcome than they would be if you chose to open a laundromat.

His assertion that many people never bother to figure out what they are good at and how else they can apply it it what I found to be an interesting viewpoint worth considering...