THE HISTORY BOOKS are full of stories of gifted people whose talents were overlooked by a procession of people until some one believed in them. Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before before he could read. Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had “no good ideas”. Werner von Braun failed ninth-grade algebra. Haydn gave up making a musician of Beethoven, who seemed a slow and plodding man with no apparent talent.
There is a lesson in such stories. Different people develop at different rates, and the best motivators are always on the lookout for hidden capacities.
There is a lesson in such stories. Different people develop at different rates, and the best motivators are always on the lookout for hidden capacities.
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