We are all unique in the sight of God
已有 139 次阅读 2012-05-31 15:21 标签: creative something business ordinaryWhat I am about to say may appear to be plugging my own business, but it’s
what I know best—and I believe it deeply and sincerely. I believe that every
human being has a talent—something that he can do better than anyone else. And I
believe that the distinction between so-called “creative” talents and ordinary
run-of-the-mill talents is an unnecessary and a man-made distinction. I have
known exterminators and typists, waitresses and machinists whose creative joy
and self-fulfillment in their work could not be surpassed by Shakespeare’s or
Einstein’s.
When I was in my teens, I read a quotation from Thomas Carlyle:
“Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness.” At the
time I thought that was a pretty grim remark, but I know now that Mr. Carlyle
was right. When you find the thing that you can do better than anything else in
the world, then all the wonderful byproducts fall in line: financial security,
happy personal relationships, peace of mind.I admit that I love ball mill
manufacturing. I believe that until you find it, your search for the byproducts
will be in vain.
I also believe that in the process of searching, no
experience is ever wasted, unless we allow ourselves to run out of hope. In my
own case, I had 34 different jobs before I found the right one. Many of those
jobs were heartbreakingly difficult. A few of them involved working with
unscrupulous and horribly unpleasant people. Yet, in looking back, I can see
that the most unpleasant of those jobs, in many cases, gave me the biggest
dividends—the most valuable preparation for my proper life work.
And I have
seen this happen in the destinies of hundreds of people. Periods which they
thought were hopeless, dark, and of no possible practical value have turned out
to be the most priceless experience they ever had. I know a girl who is a famous
package designer for American industry. She was just given a promotion for which
she competed with six well-qualified designers. Her past, like all of ours, had
its good times and its bad times. One of the worst of the bad times was a period
when she lost her husband and was left with two small children to support. She
took a clerking job in a grocery store because her apartment was on the floor
above it and between customers she could run up and keep an eye on the
babies.
It was a two-year period of great despair, during which she was
constantly on the verge of suicide. Yet the other day when she told me of her
promotion to the top package design job, she exclaimed in astonishment, “And do
you know that the single factor which swung it in my favor was that I alone had
over-the-counter experience with the customers who buy our packaged
foods!”
When people talk about the sweet uses of adversity, I think they
unduly stress a grim and kind of hopeless resignation, a conviction that, like
unpleasant medicine, it’s somehow “good for us.” But I think it’s much more than
that. I know that the unhappy periods of our lives offer us concrete and useful
plus-values, chief among them a heightened understanding and compassion for
others. We may not see it at the time, we may consider the experience entirely
wasted, but, as Emerson says, “The years teach much which the days never
know.”
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