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Why We Need to Embrace What We’re Good at
You can’t run forever. So turn around and open your arms wide
Gosh, the grass is so much greener on the other side, isn’t?
Like many people, I’ve spent quite some time thinking I wanted to branch out, to become a “new” me. I wanted to start writing so I did.
Look at my profile, I said it from the beginning. I am trying to “become more than just a language geek”. And now, almost a year after I started to write online, I realize that my articles which have been the most interesting and well-received were the ones about languages.
We want to change, we see opportunities around, and often enough, we’ll forget why we even became who we currently are.
If you’ve spent your life in an area and you want to change, why is it that the agreed concept is to throw away our old self?
We’re already good
Changing what you want to do doesn’t have to mean giving up what you’ve done until now.
On the contrary, it should mean to use it in a different way.
If you’re good at something, giving it up entirely would mean all the time put in it until now would go to waste. Why do we keep on trying this?
