“When I was fifteen, I spent a month working on an
archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists and he asked, ‘Do
you play sports?’ I said, ‘No, I do theater, I’m in choir, I play violin and
piano, I used to take art class. He went, ‘Wow. That’s amazing!’ I told him, ‘I’m
not good at any of them.’ And he said something I’ll never forget: ‘I don’t
think being good at things is the point of doing them. You’ve got all these
wonderful experiences with different skills, and that makes you an interesting
person, no matter how well you do them.’ That honestly changed my life. I went
from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel,
to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I’d been raised in such an
achievement-oriented environment, I thought it was only worth doing things if
you could win at them.” – Devon Baker
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