Comments on: Consistency and Commitment Beat Brilliance and Talent http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/consistency-and-commitment-beats-brilliance-and-talent/ Wed, 16 May 2012 13:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steven C http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/consistency-and-commitment-beats-brilliance-and-talent/#comment-23739 Steven C Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:16:23 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=1271#comment-23739 I sure hope your right! I am definitely one of those super bright gifted students. Maybe it is my work ethic, maybe my parents didn't mentally stimulate me enough as a child. So it appears consistency is my best option. I sure hope your right! I am definitely one of those super bright gifted students. Maybe it is my work ethic, maybe my parents didn’t mentally stimulate me enough as a child. So it appears consistency is my best option.

]]> By: Dawn Hibbard http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/consistency-and-commitment-beats-brilliance-and-talent/#comment-23645 Dawn Hibbard Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:48:22 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=1271#comment-23645 I would like to offer one correction to your essay - General Motors Institute DOES still exist. It is now called Kettering University and is one of the leading STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Business) university's in the country. Many of those captains of industry from the Detroit area you wrote of graduated from then GMI. Now our graduates work in myriad fields, including automotive engineering, and have started many of the country's most successful companies such as Biomet (designing and making artificial joints) and Benchmark Capital (a venture capital firm). You can learn more about Kettering University on our web site at www.kettering.edu. I would like to offer one correction to your essay – General Motors Institute DOES still exist. It is now called Kettering University and is one of the leading STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Business) university’s in the country. Many of those captains of industry from the Detroit area you wrote of graduated from then GMI. Now our graduates work in myriad fields, including automotive engineering, and have started many of the country’s most successful companies such as Biomet (designing and making artificial joints) and Benchmark Capital (a venture capital firm). You can learn more about Kettering University on our web site at http://www.kettering.edu.

]]> By: Patricia Mroczek http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/consistency-and-commitment-beats-brilliance-and-talent/#comment-23641 Patricia Mroczek Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:15:45 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=1271#comment-23641 I enjoyed your article and want to make one correction. General Motors Institute evolved into Kettering University and still uses the GMI co-op model even today. Kettering has about 2,000 undergraduates, each one spending half an academic year in classrooms and labs and half a year working in co-op jobs for the country's best companies. Our largest co-op employer is still GM. Visit our website at www.kettering.edu I enjoyed your article and want to make one correction. General Motors Institute evolved into Kettering University and still uses the GMI co-op model even today. Kettering has about 2,000 undergraduates, each one spending half an academic year in classrooms and labs and half a year working in co-op jobs for the country’s best companies. Our largest co-op employer is still GM. Visit our website at http://www.kettering.edu

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]]> By: Rachael http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/consistency-and-commitment-beats-brilliance-and-talent/#comment-11900 Rachael Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:29:33 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=1271#comment-11900 Mr. Barnes, One of the things you are contrasting here, is the difference between book learning, and actual experience. The teen age brain feels equal to adults, but fails to recognize the importance of experience. This is why teens often fail to listen to the wisdom of parents. This is why kids think adults are dumb. While we would like to think this goes away, it is still present, in the 30-45 year old group that wants to get rid of the nearly retired senior citizens still in the work force. Your adult mentors were wise enough to realize that you can learn from a variety of experiences and from people of all ages, educational backgrounds, and abilities. The most intelligent people don't have to prove their intelligence. They just have to apply it. Your main point "Consistency and work ethic always trump brilliance and talent." is well taken, but, I wouldn't say it holds true under every circumstance. If you can be consistent, dependable, and you have good work ethics, most people will value you, but, there are tasks that require talent, and brilliance too - among them acting, singing, and artists. Not every career has to be headed for the boardroom to be successful. The fact that your brilliant friend didn't embrace the values you feel demonstrate success, is not to say he hasn't been successful. If he is happy, and his existance contributes positively to the world. I hold he is successful. If he touches another person and improves their day. He is successful. If he shares an idea that contributes to the quality of life. His life has value. Do you feel frustrated that everyone isn't running at full-throttle and burning up everything they have to attain a corner office and a title? Having a high IQ doesn't mean you enjoy a specific type of work that your brain can handle, but your preferences find too confining, or too routine. Sometimes, it isn't the task, but the environment that feels too hostile. We have to be careful not to be too quick in judging others. I believe the more intelligent and wise a person is, the humbler they become as they realize that with those abilities comes the responsibility to apply them. Mr. Barnes,
One of the things you are contrasting here, is the difference between book learning, and actual experience. The teen age brain feels equal to adults, but fails to recognize the importance of experience. This is why teens often fail to listen to the wisdom of parents. This is why kids think adults are dumb. While we would like to think this goes away, it is still present, in the 30-45 year old group that wants to get rid of the nearly retired senior citizens still in the work force. Your adult mentors were wise enough to realize that you can learn from a variety of experiences and from people of all ages, educational backgrounds, and abilities. The most intelligent people don’t have to prove their intelligence. They just have to apply it.

Your main point “Consistency and work ethic always trump brilliance and talent.” is well taken, but, I wouldn’t say it holds true under every circumstance. If you can be consistent, dependable, and you have good work ethics, most people will value you, but, there are tasks that require talent, and brilliance too – among them acting, singing, and artists. Not every career has to be headed for the boardroom to be successful.

The fact that your brilliant friend didn’t embrace the values you feel demonstrate success, is not to say he hasn’t been successful. If he is happy, and his existance contributes positively to the world. I hold he is successful. If he touches another person and improves their day. He is successful. If he shares an idea that contributes to the quality of life. His life has value.

Do you feel frustrated that everyone isn’t running at full-throttle and burning up everything they have to attain a corner office and a title? Having a high IQ doesn’t mean you enjoy a specific type of work that your brain can handle, but your preferences find too confining, or too routine. Sometimes, it isn’t the task, but the environment that feels too hostile. We have to be careful not to be too quick in judging others.

I believe the more intelligent and wise a person is, the humbler they become as they realize that with those abilities comes the responsibility to apply them.

]]> By: Noah Malgeri http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/consistency-and-commitment-beats-brilliance-and-talent/#comment-11885 Noah Malgeri Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:48:21 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=1271#comment-11885 Great piece! This was very encouraging and rings quite true. Good work. Great piece! This was very encouraging and rings quite true. Good work.

]]> By: Omar http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/consistency-and-commitment-beats-brilliance-and-talent/#comment-6475 Omar Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:18:22 +0000 http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/?p=1271#comment-6475 After reading this article I think of my co workers. Some of them are super smart but they're doing a job that they hate instead of going after their dreams. After reading this article I think of my co workers. Some of them are super smart but they’re doing a job that they hate instead of going after their dreams.

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