{"id":5009,"date":"2020-05-01T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2020-05-02T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T14:24:29","slug":"so-talented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/so-talented\/","title":{"rendered":"So talented!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I admire the talent of musicians, engineers, scientists, chefs, therapists, writers, philosophers and many others and have a tendency to feel very ordinary, even somewhat inadequate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would have liked to be THE specialist in something or other, THE person everyone consults about something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Henry Van Dyke I have put things back in perspective. \u201cUse your own talents. It would be a very quiet forest where the only birds singing were the ones who sang best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AdobeStock_268540207-1024x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5011\" width=\"255\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AdobeStock_268540207-1024x390.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AdobeStock_268540207-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AdobeStock_268540207-768x292.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So I am one of the voices filling the forest. And to continue with this metaphor, I have found my own tree and branch to sing from. So not everybody likes it? Well, it\u2019s like your choice in music. We don\u2019t all (fortunately) listen to the same kind or the same artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also remember the Fourth Agreement: \u201cAlways do your best.\u201d In other words, sing as well as your vocal cords and talent allow! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about you? Is there an area where you could give a bit more to develop your talent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admire the talent of musicians, engineers, scientists, chefs, therapists, writers, philosophers and many others and have a tendency to feel very ordinary, even somewhat inadequate. I would have liked to be THE specialist in something or other, THE person everyone consults about something. Thanks to Henry Van Dyke I have put things back in perspective. \u201cUse your own talents. It would be a very quiet forest where the only birds singing were the ones who sang best.\u201d So I am one of the voices filling the forest. And to continue with this metaphor, I have found my own tree and branch to sing from. So not everybody likes it? Well, it\u2019s like your choice in music. We don\u2019t all (fortunately) listen to the same kind or the same artist. I also remember the Fourth Agreement: \u201cAlways do your best.\u201d In other words, sing as well as your vocal cords and talent allow! What about you? Is there an area where you could give a bit more to develop your talent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2289],"tags":[2870,985,2871,2869],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/so-talented\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So talented! - Bulles de bonheur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I admire the talent of musicians, engineers, scientists, chefs, therapists, writers, philosophers and many others and have a tendency to feel very ordinary, even somewhat inadequate. 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