Jodie Meeks can't shoot

I am a big UK basketball fan, so now I am a huge Jodie Meeks fan. In case you didn't know he hung 54 points on TN last week. This was the most points scored by any player in any regulation NCAA game in the past decade. His uncle is quoted as saying:

"Coming out of high school, they said he couldn't shoot," Orestes Meeks confided.

"Who said that?" a reporter asked.

"You'd be surprised how many people," Orestes said.

Hopefully none of them is a college basketball coach.

I am glad that Meeks didn't let those words define him. Have you been told that you were no good at something, but it is the very thing that you want to be good at? Marcus Buckingham defines strengths as something that makes you feel strong, not necessarily something that you are good at. You can improve an area if it makes you feel strong.

I have had this experience when people have told me that I wasn't a "great communicator." This devestated me because that is precisely what I feel strong doing. This story about Meeks lets us know that people's assessment of us should be taken to heart, but not allowed to define us. If he had given up he would have never dropped 54 on the Volunteers of TN.