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Jan. 26th, 2006 12:04 pmWhen did "A person can do anything they set their mind to turn into "It's wrong to try to discourage people from doing things they clearly have no talent for"?
I'm speaking, of course, about American Idol. Some of those people are so patently horrible that I find it impossible for no-one to have noticed how ghastly they are. Apparently though, no one brought this to their attention. People didn't want to be "cruel to them" or "rob them of their dream".
For some thing (a great many things) merely wanting it and working hard don't do it. These things require talent to do well.
Everyone has a talent, everyone can do something extremely well. It is not doing someone a favor to let them live in ignorance of the fact that what they WANT may not be it. Indeed, it is diverting them from finding their REAL talent. It wastes time and energy that could be better spent doing something else.
That having been said, it needs to be presented to people in a diplomatic and kind way, whilst still making your point clear.
*shrug*
I'm speaking, of course, about American Idol. Some of those people are so patently horrible that I find it impossible for no-one to have noticed how ghastly they are. Apparently though, no one brought this to their attention. People didn't want to be "cruel to them" or "rob them of their dream".
For some thing (a great many things) merely wanting it and working hard don't do it. These things require talent to do well.
Everyone has a talent, everyone can do something extremely well. It is not doing someone a favor to let them live in ignorance of the fact that what they WANT may not be it. Indeed, it is diverting them from finding their REAL talent. It wastes time and energy that could be better spent doing something else.
That having been said, it needs to be presented to people in a diplomatic and kind way, whilst still making your point clear.
*shrug*
