Introduction: Everyone who feels that their talents are not recognized is actually not talented enough. I would like to share a positive article. Welcome to read it.
All your unrecognized talents are due to insufficient talents
Author: Zhao Xing
Since resigning, many people have approached me for cooperation. Some want to do corporate communications, some start-up companies want to do brand strategy, some have invited me to open an early childhood education school, and some have invited me to give lectures. I sound very excited and motivated every time, but when I go home and think about it carefully, I don’t seem to have the ability. As a result, after so long, I haven’t done anything, and I have almost forgotten my old job.
The older I get, the more I see the world, and the more I realize that I know too little. When I was young, I felt that I was quite unambiguous and always felt that I wanted to change the world. But after several years of change, I found that even myself, going to bed early and getting up early, had not changed, let alone the world.
A few days ago, several platforms came to me to offer courses. I was very excited at first, but after calming down and thinking about it for two months, I still didn’t understand what I could do. Looking at others, there are some who offer speech courses, some who offer money-making courses, some who offer personal branding, and some who offer makeup techniques and methods. When it is my turn, I don’t seem to know anything. I haven’t found a specialty even after thinking about it.
In fact, when I was a child, I also learned all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but I suddenly lost my skills halfway through.
I studied calligraphy when I was a child. After a few years of studying, I was about to study with a famous calligrapher. The teacher said that I would have to study with him for at least four years and asked me if I could persist. And I just thought about not being able to play every weekend, so forget it.
When I was a child, I studied dance for three years. Other people’s goals were to be admitted to the People’s Liberation Army Art Academy. I danced gracefully and had a graceful figure. I was just envious of it, but apart from practicing in class, I forgot all about it when I got home from get out of class.
When I was a kid, I learned Taekwondo, and while others got their black belts in one go, I stopped learning every once in a while. Then I started learning Taekwondo again and continued to learn from the basics. I haven’t advanced to a level in many years.
Let’s not mention the various other study classes. Anyway, you can find various reasons to give up on yourself.
Teacher Bao Yimin has a saying: There is no such thing as talent in the world. I was very excited when I saw this sentence and found it very inspiring. Now I feel that everyone who feels that their talents are not appreciated is actually lacking in talents, such as me.
Cai Kangyong once said: When you are 15 years old, you find swimming difficult and give up swimming. When you are 18 years old and you meet someone you like and ask you to go swimming, you have to say "I can't do it". When you were 18 years old, you thought English was difficult and gave up on English. When you were 28 years old, a great job came up but required you to speak English, so you had to say, "I don't know how to do it." The more troublesome you are in the early stages of life and the less lazy you are to learn, the more likely you are to miss out on the people and things that interest you and the new scenery later on.
Only those who have suffered losses and missed great opportunities will understand the meaning behind this sentence.
I read an article a few days ago, saying that knowledge realization is very popular now, and the whole society seems to be actively starting to learn. But after so many years of studying without pressure in school, can you learn it now by using fragmented time to study?
Nowadays, slash skills are all over the world, and knowledge is being monetized. Xing Sheng, watching others make money is like robbing money. He is still stuck in an unsatisfactory job and can't move. He wants to learn more, but he can only fight for his life and doesn't even have time to watch the most popular TV series. As people reach middle age, they live a life busier than the college entrance examination.
For most people, they only realize that their abilities are pitiful only when they truly enter the society and start to change their lives based on their abilities. People won't understand unless they really suffer some hardships.
I was discussing this topic with a friend a few days ago. The friend said that she regretted not studying well when she was a child. If she had listened to her parents and studied more, she wouldn’t be unable to help her children with their homework now. Children today are completely different from when we were children. They have to learn this today, learn that tomorrow, and learn whatever they watch others learn every day. As a relatively young mother, I can hardly bear it. Nowadays, children's curiosity and desire for knowledge are so strong that I have to take a day off on weekends, but I still have to accompany my children to study in various specialty classes. To be honest, I am very tired, but what I am more afraid of than being tired is that my laziness has delayed the growth of my children. It’s okay to be lazy since you were a child, but you can’t let your children complain about you when they grow up.
Yesterday morning, this same friend posted in a circle of friends and said: My child came back from piano class and practiced for another four hours yesterday. He got up and played vigorously for more than an hour this morning. , what’s wrong with this child?
There is nothing wrong with the child, it’s just that we are getting older and are increasingly unable to support our dreams. We think that our children will be as tired and unwilling to learn as we were back then, but in fact they are enjoying it. They don’t want to win anything, but they are curious about the world. They want to learn everything, want to know everything, and want to explore and try everything. This alone can kill us on the beach in a few years.
A few days ago, I took my child to an art class, and a five-year-old child next to me was taking swimming lessons. His mother and I lamented how tired we were, but we were also very happy for the child's strong thirst for knowledge. We don’t ask our children to win at the starting line, but we care about doing our best to give them more opportunities and abilities, so that they can travel the world they want to go to.