Excellent work Erika! Too few pay attention to opportunity, be it for change or for getting help to accomplish it. I go back to what Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his book “Outliers” about successful people. Four traits emerged:

they were smart or talented enough, not necessarily the most or best at either.
they worked at their craft, using the number 10,000 hours of effort
they were given opportunities
they either recognized or were encouraged to recognize the opportunities as such.

He said too many brilliant people aren’t the best navigators of opportunity, so sometimes they need sherpas to point them in the right direction.

He uses the example that Bill Gates was told he could program on the University of Washington computers from 12 midnight to 3 am every night. The key is he got out of bed or stayed up to take advantage of the opportunity. By the time he was age 21, he was one of the five best programmers in the world.

Keith

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