When we elect such a positive view, lost of buried talent begins to surface. Elbert Hubbard said, "There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize the ability." Average people have a way of accomplishing extraordinay things for teachers and leaders who are patient enough to wait until ability becomes to apparent.
The history books are full of stories of gisted persons whose talents were overlooked by a procession of peolple until someone believed on them. Einstein was four year old before he could speak and seven before he could read. Issac Newton did poorly in grade school. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had "no good ideas." Haydn gave up ever making a musician of Beethoven, who seem a slow and plodding youn man with no apparent talent, except a belief in music.
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.
One chief executive officer, when asked, "What are you in business for?" replied, " I am in the business of growing people, people who are stronger, more autonomous, more self-reliant, more competent. We make and sell at a profit things that people want to buy so we can pay for all of this." It is not by accident that his employees, who probably would grumble about working eight hours a day for more food and shelter, cheerfully work ten or twelve hours a day for a leader who keeps such as goals clearly befoore them.
Source: Bringing Out the Best in People by McGINNIS.
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