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TOPIC: ISSUE75 - "The people who make important contributions to society are generally not those who develop their own new ideas, but those who are most gifted at perceiving and coordinating the talents and skills of others."
WORDS: 537
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010/8/6 9:10:38


As the world is proceeding on a road along with eager requirement for competent people who can make significant contributions to society, what is the character that marks the competence of a person is controversial. While the author asserts that coordinating skills of others represents such character, in my view, it is exactly the coalescent power of both the coordinating others' skills and developing own ideas that accounts for important people who contribute to society,

Perceiving and coordination talents of others is a kind of skill that cannot be ignored. Since people exploring and unremittingly paying attention to other people's research are generally rare cases, competent people able to combine others' achievements really transcend others. I will firstly illustrate the point in the realm of natural science. As we all know that it is Newton as well as Leibniz who created calculus, we hardly recognize the fact that Newton's success should be attributed primarily on his forerunners. For instance, Fermat made contributions on almost correct way in finding the maximum of a function; Descartes provided a method in finding the tangent of a curve; Barrow supported Newton by giving out the alleged 'Barrow triangle' which can be found in any book on calculus. Without the contributions of these forerunners, should Newton be a surprising prodigy could not he develop calculus.

Thus, it is obvious that it is naive to consider a person's contributions regardless of his ancestors. In the realm of classical music, the example of Liszt illuminates this idea. Born in a family in favor of music, the decision for Liszt to study music is apparent, but Liszt in his early life did not construct his talents. The change of the situation occurred just after Liszt listened to a concert performed by Paganini. No matter how illustrious and brilliant his music works are, Liszt’s successful and classical works should be regarded as the mimic of Paganini. Without Paganini’s performance, Liszt would not find out his direction of creation.

Since the impact of forerunners is important, does this mean that independent ideas of one's own is of less importance? I will provide the question with a negative answer, for the reason that lacking the ability of independent thinking, really useful and valuable coordination of others' talents and skills would not be nurtured. Looking at other scientists in the same time of Newton, many people have strived but have no gain in researching for methods to acquire the quantity of an area for that they cannot form new ideas. It is Newton who perspicuously found out the correlation between differentials and integrals. As for classical music, Liszt not only merely imitated the mode and patterns in Paganini’s performance, but he also transformed those patterns into the language of piano by his own original creativity. What is important is that pure imitation lacks originality and animation, while purely independent creation demands transcendental intelligence. Therefore the middle road requires both of them stands as a correct and appropriate way.

In sum, both the skills of perceiving and coordinating others' talents and developing one's own ideas are needed so as to make important contributions to society. And only with the combination of the two skills can we make real big progress.

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