博客思生活：界世性感的蠢宇

周二写的视听说演讲作业，经过英语母语者修改后我自己再编辑的，现在应该没什么语法错误了。

“Creativity is a talent that some people have and others do not.”

My English speech assignment is to comment on this sentence. Please correct it on grammar and suggest a more native usage of the language.

I do believe people have different innate abilities, including creative thinking. But I don't agree that talent is everything. One's achievements depend on many factors, not only talent. In fact, so-called talent may be the least contributing factor to a person's success, or even a limit to further studies.

We can't see anyone is great just because of his or her talents. Rather than that, we can see many people succeed by their hard work. As Issac Newton said, "If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work." So I think the word "talent" is a word to describe the ability to achieve something great through one's hard work.

Therefore, I think creativity is an ability that we can learn. Even though you may have some talent, you also need to learn how to use it. Pasteur, who is a French chemist and microbiologist, once said, "Luck favors the prepared mind." Maybe you need luck to get inspirations, but how do you recognize good ideas and how do you turn them into really good works? The only way is to study and work hard.

I believe everyone has some talent in the form of creativity or something else. Maybe talent is just the starting point. Some people may think that talent is an invisible limit on your achievements, but even if it is, you'll come closer to this limit the harder you work. Maybe one day, you'll even break your limit and reach what is beyond.

Series days before I wrote down something for myself to be my motto:

The place in my dream is far away from here. It's a place abundant of freedom, love, peace, and passion. And people gathered there by their enthusiasm for truth, knowledge, inspiring thoughts and exciting hi-tech for improving human's life.

And a few days later, while I opened the UC Berkeley's Page on YouTube, I swelled with desire by listenning that:

You see a place that's alive with purpose and passion. You see a place inspired by a long traditional of untraditional excellence. You see a place build by the people, for the people of California, the nation, and the world. What do you see? U.C. Berkeley!

How same our faith is like! The words Berkeley said just like an response to my words. Certainly it's a place satisfied all my conditions. But I can't even image that I could be a student of its, as I said it's far far away from me. All I can do and shall do now is to strive, to try my best to be my best. After that, maybe one day, who knows, I can get into the place in my dream really.