See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Tom Landry Story.
Life Lesson #51 – Become an Expert.
Wyndel was a good student in the 5th grade. But he was quiet, and a lot of the kids did not know very much about him—like the fact that Wyndel was an amazing horseback rider! There was another boy in Wyndel’s class who was a great football player. The only problem was that the football player also had no problem putting others down when he chose to. He would tease Wyndel, laugh at him, and call him names all because Wyndel was not very good at football—until one day when Mrs. Rouseau saw what was going on.
She took Wyndel and the other boy aside, and then said to the football player, “When you can ride a horse as well as Wyndel can ride a horse, THEN we’ll talk about your right to criticize him about not being a good football player!”
Well, what Mrs. Rouseau knew was this. She knew that one of Wyndel’s very special talents was horseback riding just like one of the other boy’s special talents was being a great football player. She knew that every person in her class and everybody in the school each had a very special talent or a group of very special talents that was different from everybody else’s. Some of the students knew what their talents were, but most had not even discovered them yet.
She explained to the two boys that no one has the right to put someone else down when they can’t do something as well as you can, because there is something, even if they don’t know what it is yet, that they can do better than you! Just think, if the football player had decided to HELP Wyndel learn more about football instead of putting him down for not being able to play, he could have been a HERO instead.
– Jim Lord