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You’re as Good as You Decide to Be
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“All the great speakers were bad speakers first.”
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON, American Poet and Essayist
ARE GREAT LEADERS, athletes, politicians, and speakers born to greatness, or did they learn the skill? Is it nature or nurture?
As Thomas Edison once said, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” All the talent in the world won’t take you to the top of the PGA or the business world if you don’t decide to do what it takes. With all due respect to Nike for one of the world’s greatest slogans, you have to decide to “just do it.”
Speaking well is your decision. It doesn’t matter if you were an introverted child or the quiet type in high school. It doesn’t matter ...
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