What you do not value will not add value to you. It will not enhance you either. What you pay attention to will draw people’s attention to you and make you an attraction to scores of people. When you treat your potential with disdain and contempt it, it will confer shame and reproach on you. When you celebrate what you carry, you would become a celebrity. In this context ‘value’ means to regard something (that is, your talent) highly as important or useful. Richard W. De Haan told a story about a group of animals that decided to improve their general welfare by starting a school. The curriculum included swimming, running, climbing and flying. The duck, an excellent swimmer, was deficient in other areas, so he majored in climbing and flying, much to the detriment of his swimming. The rabbit, a superior runner, was forced to spend so much of his famed speed. The squirrel dropped to a “C” because of his instructors spent hours trying to teach him how to fly. And the eagle could no longer ...