Attitude or Aptitude
Why Attitude, Not Aptitude, Determines Your Altitude
Aptitude is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Attitude Manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc. with regard to a person or thing: tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind; a cheerful attitude. Attitude is a way of looking at things. Attitude is something over which all of us have total control. It may be the ONLY THING over which all of us have total control. Aptitude 1. Innate ability; talent: an aptitude for mathematics or readiness or quickness in learning; intelligence.Aptitude shall mean natural talent or ability possessed from birth (which can be acquired as learned skills).Aptitude (as defined above) is something over which none of us have any control whatsoever (except when we acquire learned skills).
For every behavior and for every way of communicating or relating with people, there are skills and also attitudes that make it possible. The skills are the automatic ways of doing things, which create results. They develop by practicing those things, in those ways. The attitudes are the beliefs we have, which generate the way we interpret things in a certain context and the way we react emotionally.
You can teach a person all the best ways to do things. You can teach a person how to communicate assertively, how to speak in public with impact, but if their attitudes in those contexts don’t back them up, they will not be able to consistently practice the behaviors necessary to develop those skills.
Your attitudes determine to a great degree what you are able to do and what you are not, what you are able to practice and what you are not. This is why for example, a lot of people go to trainings and learn all sort of cool ways of relating with other people, but they never develop cool people skills.
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Aptitude is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Attitude Manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc. with regard to a person or thing: tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind; a cheerful attitude. Attitude is a way of looking at things. Attitude is something over which all of us have total control. It may be the ONLY THING over which all of us have total control. Aptitude 1. Innate ability; talent: an aptitude for mathematics or readiness or quickness in learning; intelligence.Aptitude shall mean natural talent or ability possessed from birth (which can be acquired as learned skills).Aptitude (as defined above) is something over which none of us have any control whatsoever (except when we acquire learned skills).
For every behavior and for every way of communicating or relating with people, there are skills and also attitudes that make it possible. The skills are the automatic ways of doing things, which create results. They develop by practicing those things, in those ways. The attitudes are the beliefs we have, which generate the way we interpret things in a certain context and the way we react emotionally.
You can teach a person all the best ways to do things. You can teach a person how to communicate assertively, how to speak in public with impact, but if their attitudes in those contexts don’t back them up, they will not be able to consistently practice the behaviors necessary to develop those skills.
Your attitudes determine to a great degree what you are able to do and what you are not, what you are able to practice and what you are not. This is why for example, a lot of people go to trainings and learn all sort of cool ways of relating with other people, but they never develop cool people skills.
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