天赋是指人与生俱来在某一方面的表现超出正常水平，是上天赐予的特殊能力，也是老天赠与我们的一件珍贵的礼物。人人都想获得这份礼物，拥有万中无一、出类拔萃的天赋。我们的父母们会把这种拥有天赋的期望寄托在孩子身上，比方说我孩子读书有天赋，在年级里成绩名列前茅；我孩子有运动天赋，跑步健步如飞，是运动比赛场上的常胜将军；我孩子有社交天赋，口才特好，时常代表学校去参加各类演讲比赛；我孩子有画画天赋，栩栩如生，总能在绘画比赛中取得好成绩。
Talent refers to a person’s innate performance in a certain aspect that exceeds beyond the normal level. It is a special ability bestowed by the Heavens, and it is also a precious gift from the divine to us. Everyone wants to get this gift, to have a unique talent that is unmatched. Our parents will hope their children will have talent. For example, my child is gifted in studying and ranks highly in school; My child is athletically gifted, runs like the wind and is a constant winner in sports competitions; My child has a talent for social interaction, is very eloquent and often represents the school in various speech contests; My child has a talent in drawing, vivid and alive, and can always do well in drawing competitions.
总之，拥有天赋的人在人生奋斗的路上成功概率比较高。但也有些人为自己不具备任何天赋而感到悲观。其实在我看来，所有的人在不同程度上都具有自己独特的天赋，甚至我觉得能随时随地熟睡也是一种天赋，要知道很多人都面临失眠的困扰。
In short, people with talent have a higher probability of success in the struggle of life. But there are also people who feel pessimistic about not having any talent. In fact, in my opinion, all people have their own unique talents to varying degrees. I even think it is a gift to be able to fall asleep anytime, anywhere; we must know that many people are faced with the problem of insomnia.
** 孔子曰：“三人行，必有我师焉。”每个人身上其实都有我们值得学习的地方。天赋有时候不会自己蹦跶出来说，“我在这儿我在这儿”，它更像是一个有点含羞，孤僻的孩子藏在你内心的某个角落。
Confucius said: “When three people walk together, there must be my teacher.” In fact, everyone has something worth learning from. Talent sometimes doesn’t jump out on its own and say, “I’m here I’m here,” it’s more like a somewhat shy, withdrawn kid hiding somewhere inside a corner of your heart.
** [ 孔子曰：“三人行，必有我师焉。
“别人的言行举止，必定有值得我学习的地方。 选择别人好的学习，看到别人缺点，反省自身有没有同样的缺点，如果有，加以改正。”
Another person’s behavior will definitely has something worth learning from. Learn from other’s good points, and reflect upon their shortcomings, and change oneself for the better. ]
天赋不会无缘无故的显现出来，或者说天赋要得到认可是件异常困难的事情。就好比一个作画很有天赋的孩子，最终成为一位世界闻名的画家，大家会说他真有天赋。但若这个孩子，没能成为一个知名画家，而从事了其它的行业，并一生平淡无奇，是他辜负了他的天赋？还是他本身就没有足够优秀的天赋呢？
你要问我：“三坚有什么天赋？”我好像还真回答不上来。因为世人总是以人们在一个行业里的成功来衡量这个人是否有天赋。所以我在这里想和大家探讨，如何寻找自己的天赋并把握住它。
Talent does not appear for no reason, or its to say, its extremely difficult to get talent recognized. It’s like a child who is very talented in painting and eventually becomes a world-famous painter. People will say that he is really talented. But if this child failed to become a well-known painter, but engaged in other industries, and his life was ordinary, did he live up to his talent? Or is he just not talented enough?
If you ask me, “What talent does San Jian have?” I really can’t answer that. Because the world always measures people’s talent by their success in an industry. So here I want to discuss with you, how to find your talent and grasp it firmly.
我认为和“天赋”可以衔接，并离得很近的一个词是“热爱”，你热爱某项事业，你就会有前进的动力并愿意为之排除万难。
我无法想象你的天赋不是你所热爱的。就像我以前说的热爱是一切的源动力，你能够想象贝多芬不热爱音乐，不热爱弹钢琴吗？你能够想象梵高不热爱画画吗？你能够想象爱因斯坦不喜欢物理吗？我愚昧地认为，天赋展现的是你足够热爱一件事物，设想一下你的天赋不是你热爱的方向，那是一个多么悲伤的故事。
I think a word that can be connected with “talent” and is very close is “love”. If you love a certain cause, you will have the motivation to move forward and be willing to overcome all difficulties for it.
I can’t imagine your talent isn’t something you love. Like I said before that love is the driving force of everything, can you imagine that Beethoven didn’t love music or playing the piano? Can you imagine that Van Gogh didn’t love painting? Can you imagine that Einstein didn’t like Physics? I foolishly think that talent shows that you love a thing enough, imagine if your love is not directed towards your talent, what a sad story that is.
还有一种可能是你自己并不知道，也不认可自己的天赋，你需要一个引路人来带领你找到它。这就是“千里马常有，而伯乐不常有”，你需要一个识人，提携你的伯乐。
通常帮助我们寻找天赋的任务会落在父母的身上，儿童少年时期的家庭教育尤为的重要。父母应给予孩子更多选择的空间，而不是强制性要求孩子去学习自己没有兴趣的课外课目，这样很难找到能够展现孩子天赋的办法。更多的是要看看孩子喜欢什么？对什么有兴趣？愿意在什么事情上花时间？也许你在这个方面没有足够的天赋，但是你愿意花时间，我认为已经成功了一半。
There is also another possibility that you do not know or recognize your own talent, and you need a guide to lead you to find it. This is “A Thousand Mile horse is easy to find, the discoverer (Bole) is hard to find”, you need a Bole who can recognize talent and supports you.
Often the task of helping us discover talent falls on our parents, and education during childhood is especially important. Parents should give their children more choices, instead of forcing them to study extracurricular subjects that they are not interested in, as this way is difficult to find ways to reveal their children’s talents. Its better to see what does the child like? What are they interested in? What are they willing to spend time on? Maybe one does not have enough talent in this area, but if you’re willing to put in the time, and I think that’s half the battle.
其次这个重任会转嫁到老师身上，教书育人也就是帮青少年时期的我们拓宽未来的道路。我们听过太多这个神圣职业的故事，老师就是那位打着油灯带领我们在黑暗洞穴里摸索的人。所以寻找那份炙热的冲动是找到天赋的第一步。
一万小时定律是作家格拉德威尔在《异类》一书中指出的定律。“人们眼中的天才之所以卓越非凡，并非天资超人一等，而是付出了持续不断的努力。一万小时的锤炼是任何人从平凡变成世界级大师的必要条件。”他将此称为“一万小时定律”。要成为某个领域的专家，需要10000小时（1.1415525年），按比例计算就是：如果每天工作八个小时，一周工作五天，那么成为一个领域的专家至少需要五年。
世界上最有天赋的短跑选手，不经过日复一日的刻苦训练是不可能收获奥运会冠军的荣誉。就像一朵花你不给它浇水就无法绽放。用汗水去浇灌你的天赋，天赋终将绽放。
Next, this heavy responsibility will be transferred to teachers. Teaching and educating people is to help us broaden our future path when we are young. We have heard many stories of this sacred profession, of teachers who lead us through the dark cave with an oil lamp. So discovering that burning urge is the first step to finding talent.
The 10,000-hour rule is a law pointed out by the author Gladwell in his book “Outliers“. “what makes a genius in people’s eyes extraordinary is not supernatural talent, but continuous effort, 10,000 hours of tempering, a person. A necessary condition for going from ordinary to world-class master.” He called this “The 10,000-Hour Rule”. It takes 10,000 hours (1.1415525 years) to become an expert in a field, which is proportional to this: If you work eight hours a day, five days a week, it takes at least five years to become an expert in a field.
The world’s most talented sprinter would not have been able to claim the title of an Olympic champion without training hard, day in and day out. Just like a flower can’t bloom without you watering it. Water your talent with sweat, and it will bloom eventually.
当我们寻找到天赋时，更重要的是珍惜自我的天赋。这时候可能有人会反驳我，我在一件事情上花了一万小时，我花了99%的努力，为什么我没看见我的天赋，或是我没有取得成功。那我认为一万个小时只是一个基础，更重要的是学习、思考、提升。努力不一定就会成功，努力只是给予了你成功的机会，不努力是一定不会成功。如果只是在抱怨我已经花了一万个小时都没有到达我们想要的，那就要回到第一个问题中，你是否热爱。我想如果让我花一万个小时做一件我喜欢的事，我想应该会更开心才对，并且我会想办法如何把它做的更好。就像我现在坚持写作，我并不是说我想成为一个作家或是小说家，而是这件事情让我感觉舒心，让我体会到了生活、生命的意义，当我把情感与思想通过文字表达出来时，我会有一种非常奇妙的体验和成就感。在这里我也希望大家能在你的工作中，找到让你热爱与舒心的角落。
When we discover talent, it is more important to cherish our own talent. At this time, some people may refute me: I spent 10,000 hours on one thing, I put in 99% of my efforts, why did I not see my talent or find success. In that case, I think 10,000 hours is just a foundation, and the thing of greater importance is to learn, think, and improve. Efforts do not necessarily lead to success. Efforts only give you a chance to succeed. If you don’t work hard, you will never succeed. If a person is only complaining about not getting what they want after spending 10,000 hours , let’s go back to the first question, do you love it or not. I think if I spent 10,000 hours doing something I like, I’d imagine that I should be happier, and I will figure out how to do it better. Just as I persist in writing now, I don’t mean that I want to become a writer or novelist, but this puts me at ease and makes me experience life, realize the meaning of life; when I manage to express my emotions and thoughts through words, I will experience wonderful feelings and a sense of accomplishment. Here, I also hope that everyone can find love and comfort in your work.
不知道大家有没有读过王安石的《伤仲永》，原本极具天赋的神童却变成了平凡人。我们小时候也经常能看到小小年纪就考上清华北大天才少年的故事，看到了故事的开头，却没有见证奇迹的结尾。浪费天赋是令人惋惜和不甘的，这也是为什么人们总是拿成功来衡量天赋，天赋也需要持之不懈。
“ 找到自己的天赋也就是热爱所在，为之努力坚持才会有绽放的那一刻。”
I don’t know if you have read Wang Anshi’s “Scarring ZhongYong“, which told of a prodigy who was originally extremely talented but became an ordinary person. When we were young, we often saw stories of talented young people who were admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University at a young age. We saw the beginning of the story, but did not witness the end of the miracle. It is regrettable and unacceptable to waste talent, which is why people always measure talent by success, and talent needs to be persistent.
“Finding one’s own talent in where love also resides, persist with hard work and there will be a moment it will burst into bloom.”
最后我想和大家讨论的是，你将用你们的天赋做些什么呢？就好比我写了这篇文章，如果能激发出读者的天赋那真是一个莫大的善举。我希望自己思考的同时，也带领大家一同思考，就当作是放松。比方说奥运健儿为国争光，小提琴家给人们带来一场无与伦比的音乐会，就好像我现在写作时就正听着贝多芬的钢琴曲。
从前的古今圣贤都用他们的天赋改变着我们的生活环境，接受着艺术熏陶。同样我们现代的人们也在为后代谋福，我们要用我们的天赋回馈社会、回报国家。
The last thing I want to discuss with you all is, what are you going to do with your talents? Just as I have written this essay, it would be a really good deed if I could inspire my readers to seek out their talents. I hope that when I am reflecting, I also lead everyone to think together, taking it as a relaxing activity. Let’s say the Olympic athletes win glory for the country, the violinists give people an unparalleled concert, just as I’m listening to Beethoven’s piano music right now as I write.
The sages of the past and present have used their talents to change our living environment and received the edification of art. In the same way, our modern people are also benefiting future generations. We should use our talents to give back to the society and the country.
这里我突然又想到一个话题，因为我们总说“能力越大责任越大”，天赋越突出的人，背负的就越多。大家应该都知道“天妒英才”，过人的才华会带来更多的期待，惊人的创作也许来源于难以想象的苦难。要知道上天给予你一个这么大的礼物，你一定要接得住，承载得起它的沉重。希望所有天赋异禀的人都能承受生命之重，用自己的才能和天赋，为我们的祖国和社会作出应有的贡献，燃烧我们的青春，实现我们的人生价值。
Here I suddenly thought of another topic, because we always say “with great power, comes great responsibility”, the more outstanding the talent, the more burden there is. Everyone should know that “Heaven is jealous of talents”, extraordinary talents will bring more expectations, and amazing creations may come from unimaginable suffering. To know that the Heavens has given you such a big gift, you must be able to receive it and bear its weight. I hope that all talented people can bear the weight of life, use their abilities and talents to make due contributions to our motherland and society, set our youth ablaze, and realize the value of our life.
Zhang Zhehan 