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A happy life is one which is in accord with its own nature.
~ Seneca

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
~Joseph Campbell

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
~ Bruce Springsteen

Talents are completely different from acquired knowledge, skills and interests. Your interests can change. You can gain new skills and knowledge. Your natural, inherited talents remain with you for your entire life. They are the hand you have been dealt by Mother Nature. You can’t change them. You can, however, learn to play the hand you have been dealt brilliantly and to your best advantage.

These talents give each person a special ability to do certain kinds of tasks easily and happily, yet also make other tasks seem like pure torture. We all know the math whiz that struggles with creative writing, the super-people person that can’t get along with computers. We all have our fundamental strengths and weaknesses: understanding what they are and how to apply them is the difference between brilliant success and frustrating mediocrity. Can you imagine the frantic comedian Robin Williams as an accountant?

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