The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. —Dr. Smiley Blanton

There is definitely a direct connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. - John C, Maxwell

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I often think that one of our greatest failures to young people is to help them discern their talents and gifts in life and how they might make a life out of those talents. That goal of formation for the young has to be done in balance with the realities of life. If your son or daughter wants to build wigga-jiggits and no one wants to buy wigga-jiggits they have a problem. No amount of hard work can change that reality, maybe convincing people they need to purchase wigga-jiggits is one road forward, but unless wigga-jiggits fulfill a real need in life they have limited need or use in life. One can only sell so many pet rocks before the joke is ended.

Your wigga-jiggit gifted person needs to find a way to channel their passion for wigga-jiggits into a hobby and then discern what secondary or auxiliary talents might provide a living to that person. I often think that the main channel for our young people is figure out what you want to do in college. That is such a disastrous choice these days. Given the current environment in higher education; the contamination of grievance ideology, the cult of envy & injury, the exploitation of the emotionally, socially and psychologically vulnerable, college is minefield of impersonal traps and mind poisons.

Discernment of talents, the courage to strive, the ability to recover from failure and dust yourself off, are attributes we can help our young people cultivate. No one is defined entirely by their past, but all of us our shaped by our personal story. The more we know of our personal story, understand it, integrate it, they better chance we have of identifying our native capacities. Everyone has innate abilities that can be developed and new skills and talents, expansive attitudes that they can embrace. We know this well, the Cult of the Left has gotten our young people to embrace some of the most dangerous and idiotic ideas to come out of "higher education".

All of those wigga-jiggit gifted young neighbors need to be helped to see the pursuit of vocation as more fulfilling than the creation of a victim narrative. The explosion of pseudo-victimology minimizes the real traumas and trials of life to the common denominator of hurt feelings and life uncertainty. I can't think of a surer track to run if you want to be permanently miserable than embracing pseudo-victimology. Is there any young person that doesn't experience hurt feelings and life uncertainty in their teen and young adult years? Helping them navigate the waters of personal and vocational awareness is a great gain for them and society.

The key is to trust your heart to move where your unique talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. - Al Sachrov

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