A talent. A skill. A choice.

Please find the odd word among these three, - and now we’re talking.

To an extent, a skill is a choice to leverage talent.

To an extent, talent guides a choice.

To an extent, a skill can replace talent and no one will notice.

And how often in fact it is a choice, not talent, that is both a problem and a solution?

Language fluency results from a choice to attend classes and speaking clubs, reading newspapers or books, translating the songs you like and rejecting offers that don’t allow you to work in that language.

Musicality in dancing comes from working with both music and your dance.

Wellbeing comes from a choice to do certain things and refuse to do other things, scrolling relevant feeds and ignoring all others, knowing own attitudes and interpretations of events.

And when we say “I have no choice”, we are desperate, and to some extent choose to view the situation as a dead end. In work contexts though, there will be subsequent choices and crossroads beyond that dead end, it is just that sometimes we are dealing with the choices we don’t like.

Your next project, your yoga class, your time with kids. Choose genuinely. Choose responsibly.

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