Super-Human

The more and more I learn about the background of successful entrepreneurs, the more and more evident it is that they were once normal people and not so "super-human".

I'm not saying this to cut these people down or take any credit away from them. Their achievements are awesome.  I am just saying it to break the huge misperception that they were gifted with super-human talents from birth, or that normal people like you and me do not contain these attributes to live a boundary-less lifestyle.

Rich Roll is a recovering alcoholic. He's also one of top ultra athletes in the world at 45 years old.

Richard Branson is dislexic. He also owns over 100 Virgin brands. He is also working on making space flight commercially available.

Chris Jaeb's first business completely flunked and he was in the hole a quarter million dollars. He also was co-founder of Broadcast.com with Mark Cuban (bought by Yahoo after the most successful IPO in history at that time).
 
In almost all cases, work ethic, persistence, ad self-adjustment were the key ingredients to their success. I'm not a doctor, but those aren't super-human qualities. They are qualities that can be developed over a long period of time.

Do some research on a successful person that has done something similar to what you want to achieve.  You will gain context into:

• Where they started their journey
• What imperfections they have 
• How they addressed those imperfections and overcame adversity
• How they failed and how adjusting to failure shaped their work ethic

The takeaway: Constant self-assessment & adjustment over a long period of time will eventually make you super-human in your own way.

I'd love to hear some other examples, so feel free to share them on this post.