Here's a secret that's applicable to every single being in this world.
If you want to break someone, the easiest and second most effective way to do it would be to take what the person thinks they do best and bury them with destructive criticism and insults. The best option to take a person down, of course, would be to take that talent/skill they treasure the most from them.
For example, let's take a musician named X. See, X loves playing his cello. How would one break X?
Get a flight of stairs and push X down those stairs. So long as a part of his body which is required to play the cello is damaged beyond repair, presto! You've succeeded in bringing this person down. Of course, this option would take a certain level of hatred or dissatisfaction toward X, if there isn't a cold heart in you already.
The other option might sound more like a planned situation, but it happens. Let's say X goes for an audition held by a music college. Now X has been playing the cello from a very young age and has always dreamt of becoming a professional 'high-art' musician. If he gets accepted into the college, it'd be half the battle won already. He goes in the audition room, plays his pieces on his beloved cello and shuffles his feet while the party who called the audition deliberates amongst themselves. Let's assume the answer they give is a no, the reason being they feel X isn't ready, hasn't matured with his cello yet, so they tell him to come back next year for the next intake after 'maturing' with his cello in the time span of a year. How'd you think would react after that?
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2 comments:
This would really depend on how mentally weak a person is to start with.
I have encountered people who devote their entire lives to perfecting and bullet-proofing their strengths (or desired strengths). These are not people who fall at the call of criticism or failure, but in turn recognise and use it as just another tool to immortalize themselves.
However many people of course, are not nurtured to tell themselves constructive words and their whole line of defence crumbles at the slightest penetration.
Words and action of another cannot harm a 'strong' person. Its only what those person(s) whisper to themselves in their minds that truly brings to their self annihilation.
If music is X's passion and it really is his dream to become a professional musician, then he shouldn't give up until that dream is realized. Giving up because of one failed audition is really not a reasonable excuse at all.
"Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Taken from Obama's education speech. XD
Besides, music is all about passion, determination and an attitude that never gives up or backs down. Actually, this applies to all, not only music. haha. But I say this from "experience" as a musician myself. (:
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