WHO ARE THE GIFTED?

Have you ever wondered who the gifted are? Creative and imaginative people are often not recognized by their contemporaries, family or peers. In fact, they are not recognized in school by their teachers either. Many of these gifted people are late bloomers in some their schooling stifled their creative processes. Consider some of these:
Einstein: Was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.
Isaac Newton: Did poorly in grade school.
Beethoven: His music teacher once said of him, "As a composer, he is hopeless!"
Thomas Edison: His teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
F.W. Woolworth: He got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employers would not let him wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense."
Walt Disney: He was fired by a newspaper editor because he "didn't have any creative ideas." Art Linkletter tells the story of Disney taking him out to Anahim, CA to look at a big empty spanse of land telling him of his dream for a theme park. He wanted Art to invest in his dream and Linkletter turned him down. The rest is history.
Caruso: A music teacher told him: "You can't sing. You have no voice at all."
Leo Tolstoy: He failed college.
Werner Van Braun: He failed 9th grade algebra.
Adm. Richard E. Byrd: He was retired from the Navy as, "Unfit for Service" until he flew over both poles.
Louis Pasteur: Was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the royal college.
Abraham Lincoln: He entered the Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out as a Private.
Louisa May Alcott: She was told by an editor that she could never write anything that had popular appeal.
Winston Churchill: He failed the 6th grade.
What does this tell us? Never give up. Follow our own knowingness and our dream. Never let anyone 'should' on your dream.