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We have had the experience of having to see our shadows when walking then it disappears when we are in full circle of light. That is the very same way our potentials, talents, businesses, careers and so forth work. As we should be strong believers and proponent of humble and small beginnings.
Your talent and potentials must come to its full cycle in the light and at the point, your will be referenced to your originality. Albert Einstein discovered radioactivity and that has been used to develop and design many others things. So it means radioactivity won't be discovered again, imagine someone trying to be like Albert Einstein to discover radioactivity again.
It is exactly same we do without potentials and talents because of the value we place on our potentials and the will to stay in our comfort zone due to the self-imposed value of inadequacy.
There is a moment where even your shadow disappears, so if you are living in the shadows of others when they the original appears what happens to you. It doesn't matter how small your gift or skill and talent is, live it to the best of your abilities. In there lies your legacy, achievement, and remembrance. The world won't remember you for being the shadow of someone when there is the original. Live your dreams and start small.
It is very ok to be an apprentice, mentee or protégé or intern of great minds but those periods are to nurture, polish and tease the potentials in you.
Every musician starts by singing others songs but their price tag rises when they become the original of themselves and curve that distinct niche and value.
My little encouragement is that never have fear of others potentials to subdue them because our talents are fashioned out for different purposes. If you subdue someone's talent you have trapped the world and yourself.