I believe everyone has a powerful gift to offer the world. Everyone. I saw a 60 Minutes segment a few years ago on a young man with severe brain damage. He was blind, couldn’t tie his shoes and dress himself, and needed help eating. And he had a powerful gift. His family was wealthy and could afford to nurture his gift. He was a prodigy, a master piano player. One particularly amazing capability he had was to be given a song name off the top of someone’s head (in this case the reporter’s) and play it with emotion, and then take the intended style of the song and switch it to another immediately and play it equally well, with equal emotion. During the segment I saw, he played the song in three or four styles, as though the song had been written in each of them. If everyone’s powerful gift could be equally nurtured, think about what an amazing world this would be. My key passion in life is learning what others’ passions are and then talking about it with them. Most everyone I have met has a strong passion with a positive tone. Some people may even have multiple passions: even better. This is their gift(s) that they would like to share with the world, and they are eager to tell me about it. Perhaps, collectively, we could tap into that strong exuberance, similar to the prodigy of a piano player, and make great things happen from it.
[Excerpt taken from my extended blog from December, 2022 which is no longer in this blog sequence.]
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