I recently met up with some old friends from school and we had a wonderful conversation about different people that we knew over the years, who had been huge talkers as to what they would be doing in life and what they would be achieving and it is quite interesting that the experience seems to be quite common that those that announce, particularly in the latter years at school, as to what they are going to be doing, or even make allegations there and then as to what they are currently doing, are invariably the people who are still living with their parents 20 years later and have not done anything at all with their lives.

There seems to be some sort of attitude when one is at school, whereas on the one hand there is a lot more teasing than happens later in adult life, that people seem to accept the stories or fantasies of sociopaths and psychopaths, who have free reign with the ludicrous stories they can make up about the various businesses, projects and who knows what else they are allegedly involved with, and that young people, who are pretty critical about most things, seem to blindly accept all of that.

It is also true of a business where you will often get, even within a company, those who are capable of talking and impressive talk as to what it is they do, what they will be doing, how they will be doing it and somehow or other don’t actually ever seem to be able to get down and do the work and then you get those, who often in a more quiet way, just get on with the work and do it. Sometimes they don’t think they have been noticed, but I think in most companies, whether the boss and managers reveal it or not, they have a pretty good idea as to who the amazing talkers are and who the actual amazing workers are – and normally they are not the same people!