Exceptional giftedness - happiness or curse?

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

A talented person is envied. Why? Because it seems to others that exceptional talent is the key to success. That a talented young man, winning prizes and awards, will certainly grow up the career ladder, that his path will be smooth and even.

At the same time, people not only often confuse abilities and giftedness, but also do not understand how much mental strength it is necessary to invest in someone who stands out from the background of others in something. How many underwater not only stones - whole rocks - lie in wait for a talented person.

If we look into the history of culture and art, it turns out that even geniuses - or especially they - have never lived an "ideal" life in the narrow-minded view. The exceptional talent of Mozart or Paganini required their childhood and youth to be sacrificed. Yes, it seems that everything is easy for a talented person. But it's only fun at first. Talent cannot develop without persistent and hard work - not only visible, but also inner work. Often - including due to theira special way of life - capable people have many psychological problems. This affects both their personal lives and social status. Exceptional talent is rarely paired with an entrepreneurial streak. And this means that such people certainly need help, patronage, support from society, patrons, and the state.

Parents - especially vain ones - are often attracted by the "laurels" of educators of a talented child. It is for them, and not for the youngest genius, that awards, competitions, prizes are important. They do their best to "promote" and develop their child, whose exceptional talent they see as a guarantee of a great future. However, already in childhood, the psychological problems of such a person are laid. If from a young age he was in the center of attention, was an object of admiration, then in his youth, ever higher demands are placed on him. And the praise is getting more and more stingy. For some, this is already enough for their self-esteem to suffer greatly. In other children, exceptional giftedness is inextricably linked with their extreme sensitivity and vulnerability. Being very impressionable, they are very worried about any failures, often live in their fictional world. Such children, becoming teenagers, are unable to independently solve even the simplest everyday problems.

Exceptional talent in any field of knowledge or art often turns into a curse for the person himself. Besides the fact that she means nothing without labor,a talented person is envied by others. But they are not only jealous of successes and failures. They seek to exploit such a person and his abilities, because, for example, intellectual talent can be a source of discoveries and innovative solutions that can bring a lot of money if used correctly. Only here the capital is most often earned not by the author of the idea himself, but by those who managed to feel the market situation. A gifted person who is able to bring great benefits to society must be supported in every possible way. A competent manager or impresario can successfully work with him in tandem.

Don't just forget about the spiritual well-being of a talented person. There are too many examples in history when exceptional talent turned out to be a curse for such a person.