I once heard a Guru saying “ How you do anything is how you do everything”. It’s when I started to observe the correlation between my attitude towards interests and work.
Other than work, I practice ballet as a personal interest. And unlike kids, adults’ class normally has more freedom in terms of attendance and discipline. No more exams so you don’t have to force yourself to practice for a pass. This is where our attitudes play an important part on how well we perform.
Here we don’t talk about talents but attitudes, you can always find these few types of students in every single class:
The “I can’t do it” type
This type of students tends to turn down every learning opportunity and “I can’t do it” is what they say for every movement taught. They will only do the movements that they are comfortable with, however, when teacher pushes them to at least try, they can always do it. You can still see improvements in them but in a slower rate.
The “reluctant to change” type
This type of students refuses to do movements that they consider as difficult. If teacher pushes them to try, they simply change the movements themselves and skip every difficult move. It’s hard to see them improve and you always hear them complaining.
The “keep on trying” type
This type of students always grabs every single chance to learn and even if they can do the movement, they keep practicing to perfect it. They improve quickly because they keep pushing themselves out of their comfort zone.
Some years later, you can see that the gap between the different types get wider and wider. Interestingly enough, you can always find these types of colleagues at work and their attitudes always tell you a lot about how far they can go.
If you feel unsatisfied about any aspects of your life, ask yourself which type of attitude do you have? You may not be able change the situation but you can always change your attitude in order to change the results. The Question is, how far do you want to go?