One of my gifts as a teacher is that I put students in touch with what they really want to learn. They go off later to make a film or write poetry when they never expected it. I am proud of that. The gifts that I received from my teachers are useful to me to this day. I have learned that we all need discipline to develop the talents we have.
Hard work is needed to support any vision.
Then you need to develop courage and skills to look at your work critically. If you don t develop vision, however small it is, it remains undeveloped and it won t be worth anything. Once your realize what you voice is and what your vision is as a human being, then it is important that your realize you have the power to implement it. Then learning becomes a mission and not a chore. I try to help people teach themselves how to find a personal way of participating and contributing to the world.