Once a few years ago I had a friend who said the following: "All our troubles come from the desire to have money. Now, if we chose our work by vocation and not for profit, our humanity would flourish."
It sounds fresh and existential, but I do not agree with the vocation.
All of us once lived or live inside the myth that there is such a wonderful, magical thing as recognition.
There such people – geniuses and everything turns out for them, just like that. They are the ones who drive progress. And you’re just a loser, with nothing but darkness ahead you. As a result, you remain idle or in any office you shift the papers.
If you are gifted in chemistry, then based on this, at five you MUST know the entire table and conduct experiments. What about musical geniuses? Mozart, Paganini – with one hand throws a symphony from memory.
Let me tell you a secret: it turns out for those who constantly work on this. Well done for those, who did a LOT.
Such people originally tuned for it. At this time, when your daily routine is scheduled for 10 hours of work for a whole week and you go to have dinner and after that you have a leisurely stroll, this person will forget to eat. Instead, he will finish reading the second dozen of books in a week or finish some tenth portrait. He will spend all 50 hours instead of your 10 hours learning a new skill.
Needless to say, in fact, will these people get better? They acquire their talent, develop it, and do not get just like that.
Many will say now that they are afraid of mistakes. They are afraid that they will not be able to master something new. So, this is the biggest mistake in your life. Because all people make mistakes, there is no life, no business without a mistake. If you are learning something, and you have never failed, then you are obviously doing something wrong. Or, you do nothing at all.
Therefore, all these gifted individuals on posters and magazine covers, who develop robots, write three books a year, get Golden statuettes – they are much closer to us than we think. They just stubbornly honed their skills, depriving themselves of worldly pleasures and joy for this goal.
If you solve physics problems every day, it will be easier for you. If you draw already 20th landscape with water, then for the 21st time you will have no trouble to depict such a difficult thing in painting like water.
Another thing is that a person is a completely non-permanent character. His interests are constantly changing. A couple of years he was captured by the Spanish language and today he does not even remember it. After school, he wanted to become a doctor, became him, and when he turned 45, he found a great artist inside himself, and the well-established carpenter suddenly decided to become a musician.
And while you compare your unsuccessful first attempt with the result of masters’ works, who have been in this business for more than a decade, you will be disappointed and give up everything. And there are people, who take and do, regardless of age and their capability. They just like it.