To find yourself, you need to believe in yourself. We are accustomed to our ordinariness, maybe even resigned to it. But somewhere in the depths of the soul of each of us there still lives a dream of a different life - more interesting, more sublime, more ambitious, more meaningful. No matter how our life develops, no matter how it instills in us the idea of ​​​​our ordinariness, we still know that there is this holy fire in us, which can illuminate our life and fill it with new meaning. Well, how to find it and how to light it? I really like one ancient parable, the wisdom of which can help us find the answer to this difficult question. “...The great king had three sons. The day has come to choose the heir to the throne from among them. The choice was very difficult. Each of the king's sons was good at his job and equally dear to his father. The king decided to consult with the great sage, and he gave him advice... The king gathered his sons, gave each a handful of flower seeds and said: - My children, I am leaving. How long I will be absent is unknown. And this is a test for you. You will return these seeds to me when I return. Whoever preserves them best will become my heir! - He said so and left. The first son thought: “What should I do with the seeds? - and began to keep them in an iron safe. “When father returns, they will be as they were.” The second son thought: “If I keep them the way my brother does, they will die. And dead seeds are not seeds at all.” I went to the market, sold them and received money. At the same time, the second son thought like this: “When my father comes, I will go again to the market and buy new seeds, I will give them to my father better than they were.” And the third son went out into the garden and scattered the seeds wherever there was free space. .After some time, the father unexpectedly returned and turned to his sons with excitement... The first son opened his safe. The seeds died and became moldy. The father said to him: “What is this?” Did I give you such seeds? They should be able to bloom flowers and give off a wonderful aroma, but these seeds stink! These are not my seeds! The second son rushed to the market, bought seeds, returned home and presented them to his father. But the father said: “But they are not the same.” Your idea is better, but still this is not the quality that I would like to see in you. He went to the third son in great hope and fear at the same time: “What happened to his seeds?” And the third son took his father to the garden, where millions of flowers bloomed around. He told his father: “These are the seeds that you once gave me.” As soon as they are ripe, I will collect them and return them to you. To which the king answered him: “You are my heir.” This is what you should do with seeds! Like the three sons in that ancient parable, each person comes into the world with different choices. We appear in life like a seed, and what happens to this seed depends to a large extent on ourselves, on how we treat ourselves, how we evaluate and believe in our abilities and talents. Will we put it in a safe, hide it far, far away from everyone, or sell it for pennies, or will we still plant it in fertile soil... Why is it so difficult for us to believe in ourselves, to believe that each of us is talented in our own way? There are many reasons. Of course, the basis of our self-doubt was laid in our childhood, when everything we loved to do was not valued, simply ignored, or accepted with criticism or sympathetic regret, which led to disappointment in ourselves and a belief in our ordinaryness and inability to express ourselves. yourself creatively. But having matured and “recovered” from the upbringing and education received, a person can make decisions on his own and make informed choices, but he still remains “blind” in relation to his natural abilities and talents. This is due to superficial self-knowledge and his beliefs in existing myths about human capabilities. As an example, let's look at three myths about creativity that are ingrained in people's minds today and limit creativity to its full potential. One of these myths is.