talent is a practice

Written By Ayush Duggal

talent is a story we tell ourselves.

we wait to be picked. we say "i'm not talented enough" and use it as permission to hide.

but talent isn't what we're born with. talent is what happens when we keep showing up.

writing when we don't feel inspired. building when no one's watching. doing the work after others have gone home.

sincerity leads to talent. talent leads to mastery.

we don't need to be the best today. we just need to care enough to keep going.

cristiano ronaldo wasn't born the best footballer. he trained harder than anyone else.

satya nadella wasn't destined to be a great leader. he earned it by showing up, making bold bets, and turning microsoft from $300b into $3t.

the difference between outliers and average performers is often just who sticks with it long enough.

that's why compounding beats raw talent. performance equals talent times effort squared. effort shows up twice in the equation.

if we wait for talent before we start, we'll wait forever.

pick yourself. start now. the talent will come.

Ayush Duggal

Ayush Duggal is the kind of founder who looked at India’s graduate unemployment problem and thought, “What if the real issue isn’t jobs or skills, but the complete lack of believable salespeople?” So he built VerveSchool. A place where the overlooked learn the overlooked skill. Sales. Not the sleazy kind. The kind that actually works. The kind where someone trusts you enough to say yes without hating themselves afterwards.

He teaches people how to sell like they mean it. Not because a script told them to. But because they’ve actually understood what it means to solve a problem for someone who’s barely listening. It’s more psychology than pipeline. More theatre than theory. More “shut up and listen” than “always be closing.”

VerveSchool runs on a Pay After Placement model. Which, let’s be honest, is probably how all education should work. You pay when it works. Not before. Radical, apparently. But only if you're still pretending the current system makes sense.

Ayush is allergic to mediocrity and buzzwords. He prefers late-night coaching calls to keynote speeches. He’d rather get one ambitious underdog to a 7 LPA role than impress a room full of VCs who’ve never had to sell a ₹15,000 course to a broke 24-year-old with a BA pass degree.

He’s read more Osho than MBA textbooks and thinks most “career advice” would make more sense if it came with a warning label. He doesn’t do fake humility. Or fake urgency. Just real people, real growth, and real results.

https://verveschool.com
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