>>I'm not really top percentile in anything save my ability to communicate.
Being top-percentile in communication is nothing to brush off. It's about finding where to use your top-percentile skills that can be the challenge.
I could be in the top 1% of people who grow green tomatoes, but if I'm not using that skill for something, does it matter? Maybe skill-for-the-sake-of-skill does matter on some level, but maybe I should find a way to use my mastery for something.
Being top-percentile in communication is nothing to brush off. It's about finding where to use your top-percentile skills that can be the challenge.
I could be in the top 1% of people who grow green tomatoes, but if I'm not using that skill for something, does it matter? Maybe skill-for-the-sake-of-skill does matter on some level, but maybe I should find a way to use my mastery for something.