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A violinist played for 45 minutes in the New York subway. A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist raised about $30 in tips.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. In that subway, Joshua played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before he played in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out a Boston theatre, and the seats averaged about $100.

The experiment proved that the extraordinary in an ordinary environment does not shine and is so often overlooked and undervalued.

There are brilliantly talented people everywhere who aren't receiving the recognition and reward they deserve. But once they arm themselves with value and confidence and remove themselves from an environment that isn’t serving them, they thrive and grow.

Your gut is telling you something. Listen to it if it's telling you where you are isn't enough!

Go where you are appreciated and valued.

Know Your Worth. ❤️
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mike 1y ago

There is another interpretation and I relate it to restaurants.

There is a list of the 50 best restaurants and making it to that list guarantees a waiting list for tables stretching over months or years.

Yet, food is subjective. There is good food and there is bad food which is less up for interpretation. However one persons best restaurant is another's OK eatery.

If you're good, that becomes obvious. If you're considered the best, this is subjective and open to interpretation.

Exceptions to this are things like boxing. At the time Mike Tyson was the best boxer in the world, simply because everybody that took him on got knocked out.

Apple is the most successful technology company in the world, but not everybody likes Macs or iPhones

The violinist above is good, even very good. But being the one of the best in the world is only by consensus and only while in vogue.

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