Everyone’s Got Talent
Everywhere I look lately I keep getting the same message in different ways: because you’re here (i.e. alive, on this planet) you’ve got something to offer. My favorite incarnation of the message is this:
I think I first saw it on Pinterest. I’ve done my share of trying to be a square peg in a round hole and sometimes I indulge in a little sadness that I didn’t learn at age 6 (instead of thirty…something) that everyone’s talents are valuable — money, which is Man-made, isn’t an accurate measure of what is Good, Worthy, Necessary, Joyous, Beloved. I experienced so much of my childhood and teens and twenties and early 30′s trying to figure out how to be more like _____, instead of revelling in what I am and building on my me-ness. Better to learn now than not at all!
Try saying this when you have a degree from Harvard, everyone thinks I’m a jerk! But I really believe it, everyone is a genius!
I don’t think people believe you’re a jerk — you certainly don’t carry yourself with an arrogant swagger and you’re not loud or boorish.