The advantage I hold
It's often easy to dismiss one's talents.
After all - it's the one thing that's always come easy to you, where you put in no effort at all. It's the one area where you might even receive awards, but... you're not really sure why. The one where people ask you to teach them how it works, and you're at a loss because... um, you're not really sure how you're good at it... you just are.
In a world that prizes hard-work, grit and determination, often, talent sadly ends up taking a backseat. People are encouraged to become passably mediocre at something they're not good at by visibly "working hard". The talent, on the other hand, ends up becoming an oddity, a quirk that you randomly possess, one that you bring out once in a while to elicit amazement from friends & family.
Today's read, by Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex fame, asks us to pause, reflect and extract ourselves from the burden of "working hard" to sustain ourselves. Perhaps the advantages we hold are simply enough?
Reading time: ~15 minutes