Thoughts on natural talent and building a team around you in areas you're not a strong.

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Talent is a curse.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I don't necessarily mean my talent, and I don't really mean that it's always a curse. But I think oftentimes we take talent, we take natural genius, and so forth, and we kind of put it on a pedestal, and act like that is really where it's at, and that those people have it.

So sad, this is why the whole concept of privilege anything is is kind of a misnomer. Because anytime you're you are ever set ahead in any way. There's always something else, or multiple things holding you back.

Because you get spoiled with the things that come natural to you. I'll give you a great example that this idea came back to me today, when I was watching my son Tyler in jujitsu. So my son Tyler, if you've haven't seen him go back last week, we had a we had a great talk with him, as he was showing off one of his toys, and he's seven years old.

He's He's larger than most kids his age, taller, just a bigger, bigger kid in general, which is common on both sides of our family.

So I was similar, though not quite so early. But I went through a period of time where my I went through a growth spurt and passed up a lot of people my age, and got to about the size, I'm at now height wise, maybe a little bit taller by seventh grade.

And so I was a good size seventh grader did not grow much beyond that, but stopped at that point.

So I got to see him and go back to Tyler got to see him in jujitsu today. And he he's with the younger kids, but he's one of the largest kids there.

In fact, last week, they kind of had a little sparring thing where they all kind of took turns having to at a time try and take each other down.

Well, once Tyler got up, nobody else could take him down. You know, that's the whole King of the Hill type thing.

We used to play King of the Hill when I was a kid also where you just have everybody kind of go at it and try and take down one person, whoever could stay standing the longest was the winner.

And I got to an age where I was the winner just about every time we'd play tackle football in a very similar way, as a as a kid where everybody would try I'd have the whole class of guys hanging off of me trying to pull me down and I realized that, hey, I can keep going.

It's not and I could just trudge along and get the get the football across the other side was only me and another, another person, my age would be able to do that. And my son's got the same thing. Nobody could take him down.

And that seems like a great talent and seems like something really amazing. The thing is, it caught up with me.

I was lucky enough to stop growing.

And all of that what I considered talent when I thought I was pretty good at sports for a certain period of time. That all went away pretty quickly.

So I was pretty decent at football. For the first few years. I was the most improved player for my freshman year. And did pretty good all the way up until I came back.

Junior year and everyone had shot up over me, and I was now the the tiny guy on the football team.

It's a little difficult from that point forward.

In fact, I did not play from varsity on I realized pretty early on that this was not going to be what it was...