It seems like the ability to find talent in people is a talent in itself. Goethe said, “The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.” Those who want to succeed in life should learn to find that hidden potential in other people and then bring it out. Here are a few “hidden potential” examples I found:
Albert Einstein was four before he could speak and seven before he could read. Isaac Newton did very poorly in elementary school. Walt Disney was fired from the newspaper where he worked because “he had no good ideas.” Werner von Braun failed ninth-grade algebra and Leo Tolstoy flunked out of collage. Haydn gave up on teaching Beethoven, who seemed to have “no apparent musical talent.”
