Your Way Is the Only Way

A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.

Are there any examples of it going the other way? Can talent supplant mediocrity through the denial of self?

You do your best work and have the most fun when you’re not burdened by fear that someone else thinks you’re doing it wrong.

Remember to correctly frame your relationship to research. Not everything that is written down is right. Often it was right, for them, in context.