Just like the famous painter Van Gogh, he believed that he had found the perfect career again and again, but found himself going in the wrong direction again and again through practice until he finally found the right path.
Sculptor Michelangelo's road to success is also full of twists and turns: he really wants to make achievements in artistic theory, but practice has proved that he found this road impossible. Later, he became a sculptor, painter and architect, and also did engineering design for the fortifications in Florence.
When Michelangelo was almost 30 years old, he even put the visual art aside completely and plunged into the ocean of poetry. However, this road is also impassable.
Michelangelo, like anyone eager for success, also learned to know who he is and who he is carving. All this happened in practice, not in theory. He started with an idea, tested it before changing it, and was willing to give up the original idea for a more suitable choice. In his own words, "I didn't know who I was until I saw what I was doing."
Therefore, only by constantly discovering more possibilities can a person constantly explore and improve himself until he finds a path that suits him and becomes the person he wants to be.
Life without boundaries has more possibilities.
In The Boundaries of Growth, the author divides talents into generalists and specialists. He stressed that today's society needs more generalists, because generalists can bring about breakthrough development in key areas and bring enterprises on the verge of bankruptcy back to life.
The reason why you say this is because when you open the history of human society, you will be surprised to find that most of the major breakthroughs in history were accomplished by generalists.
The so-called generalist is a person who is not confined to a certain field, but constantly broadens and extends his knowledge. Their greatest feature is that they are good at breaking the inertia thinking when things happen, and they prefer to connect several unrelated things and try to find commonalities from them.
People call writer Haruki Murakami a dark horse. Haruki Murakami wanted to be a musician at that time, but he soon found that he couldn't play those instruments well. At the age of 29, he opened a jazz bar and still didn't want to give up his music dream.
Once, while watching a baseball game, Murakami suddenly had the idea of writing a novel. So he started writing at night. Once it starts, it gets out of hand.
Murakami said: "I didn't know then, and I don't know now. However, writing makes me feel very fresh. "
It's just that Haruki Murakami doesn't know that his fourteen novels are obviously related to music. This is entirely because of his obsession and love for music, which makes his novels unique, and it must be one of the reasons why readers like them better.
As people say: the sweat you shed, the road you walked, the river you crossed, and the pit you climbed, each step will leave a deep mark on your life. Even failure is the most precious wealth in your life experience.
Maybe you didn't feel it at that time, but it will gradually show up in your later life. So, even if you are still looking for the direction, even if you have not succeeded, don't be discouraged, don't lose heart. Just like I was born useful, as long as you don't give up, your spring will definitely come.
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If a professional can become a leader in a certain field, he can play a certain skill to the extreme, just like the super skill described in The Oil Man: let the oil pass through the hole of a copper coin without touching a drop of oil.
It can be seen that the exquisite craftsmanship is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people. It can also be said that "practice makes perfect". It can be seen that professionals can be called professionals as long as they do well in the vertical field and strive for perfection in seemingly ordinary things.
Generalists are often good at lateral thinking, can draw inferences from one point to another, and bring divergent thinking to the extreme. There are bound to be many whimsy.
Just like seeing an apple fall from a tree, most people just think: when the melon is ripe, the apple will naturally fall when it is ripe. Only Newton can think of gravity from the phenomenon that apples fall to the ground: apples fall because of gravity.
This is that scientists and ordinary people have different reactions and thinking when observing the same thing, which determines different coping styles.