Why Attitude Is More Important Than Aptitude

Why Attitude Is More Important Than Aptitude

Your attitude, no matter how it is now, is really one of the best things you can choose to improve. It has more significant consequences than anything else on your success.

We human beings have an extraordinary ability to learn and to improve. We can acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes. All three of these are important, but this importance increases as we move from one to the next.

Knowledge is a reflection of what we know. Skills reflect how we are able to do something and attitudes are a way of being. Knowledge matter because it's the base for improving and skills matter because they dictate to a large extent our performance.

However, our attitudes go beyond all this and create the frame for us to develop our skills, to use our knowledge and to reach a high level of performance. The fact is that without the right attitude, everything else tends to go to waste.

First of all, consider that a certain skill will often not even develop without the right attitude in place. This is because skill development takes consistent practice and this requires the courage to try, to fail, to learn from failure and to keep going.

Well, these are all beliefs, thinking patterns and emotions, the key components of any attitude. If you think about, this is why it is the people with a confident, positive attitude that make the most progress and get the most out of life.

Secondly, even if you somehow have an aptitude for something (perhaps natural) but you lack the right attitude, you may avoid the circumstances where you can put that aptitude to good use.

As a communication coach, I've worked for instance with many people who were good speakers and yet they were afraid of speaking in public, which is why their skill went to waste for the most part. Their perceptions and emotions were not aligned with their skills, and this sabotaged them.

It is your attitude that can put you in the emotional state that allows you to make best use of your skills and knowledge. It creates the context for everything else to flow and to get results.

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