There are certain markers you can look for to know you’re chopping at the right tree. Some of them are more concrete, and some of them are more intuitive. One marker is who you are as a person. Your gifts and talents are at least a starting point for which battles are yours to fight or yours to walk away from. When you lack the natural gifting to do something, even when you care about it, you will always find yourself at a deficit. You have to look in a mirror and ask yourself the hard question,
