The Pleasure of Discovering Hidden Talent

        When we elect such a positive view, lots of buried talent begins to surface. Elbert Hubbard said, “There is something that is much scarcer, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.” Average people have a way of accomplishing extraordinary things for teachers and leaders who are patient enough to wait until ability comes apparent.

         History books are full of stores of gifted persons whose talents were overlooked by a procession of people until someone believed in them. Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. A newspaper editor fire Walt Disney because he had “no good ideas.” Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college, and Werner von Braun failed ninth-grade algebra. Haydn gave up ever making a musician of Beethoven, who seemed a slow and plodding young man with no apparent talent – except a belief in music.

         There is lesson in such stories: different people develop at different rates, and that best motivators are always on the lookout for hidden capacities.

         One chief executive officer, when asked, “What are you in business for?” replied, “I am in the business of growing people – people who are stronger, more autonomous, more self-reliant, more competent. We make and sell at a profit things that people want to buy so we can pay for all this.” It is not by accident that his employees, who probably would grumble about working eight hours a day for mere food and shelter, cheerfully work 10 and 12 hours a day for a leader who keeps such goals clearly before them.

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