The person matters

You put me and Wolfgang Puck in the same kitchen with the same ingredients and tools and he’ll cook my pants right off my lower half. He’ll smoke me like a freshly caught salmon.

But you give us both the best camera in the market and I’ll make Wolfgang Puck look like Wolfgang "Suck, suck, suck" if you’re catching my drift.

The tools don’t matter that much. What you or I can do with them is everything.

Give me a suit of glittering armor and people will question my sexuality, but you give that suit of armor to Alexander the Great and half the world is under his thumb by the time he’s 30 years old.

Give me a baseball bat and I can hit a dribbler to second base, give that bat to Bryce Harper and he’ll make it worth $500 million.

Who cares what tools and skills you have if you can’t use them to the best of your ability? Find your strong suit and lean into it. Don’t try to be the elephant who thinks he can fly.