Acknowledging your talents
Golf champion Michelle Wie has said she doesn’t simply want to be known as someone who won the most LPGA tournaments in history: “I want to be known as doing stuff that no one ever thought of… I want to be known as people that changed the world and people that change how people think.” [The Honolulu Advertiser, February 10, 2005]
Having such self assurance about your abilities is inspiring, but many of us have not “seen” ourselves objectively enough, or with enough acceptance to feel that confident.
In her article Fostering adult giftedness Sharon Lind says, “The first step towards building a strong social and emotion base is to recognize and acknowledge one’s own strengths or gifts. For many adults this facet of who they are has either gone unnoticed, been ignored or was not expressed for cultural reasons.”
But age, thankfully, is not a barrier to realizing your talents. Oscar Niemeyer, for example, received the highest honor in his field of architecture, just after his 80th birthday, and at 97, is developing one of his most ambitious projects. Acclaimed writer Dominick Dunne notes he never wrote a word until he was 50.
There are other examples on the Maturity page.
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