"I think everybody has a gift. It's up to us as individuals to tap into it"

Slash suggests that every person carries a latent capacity, call it a gift, waiting for engagement rather than permission. Gift here isn’t only a dazzling talent. It can be a way of seeing, a temperament for care, a knack for asking the right questions, a steady patience in crisis, an ability to connect ideas or people. Some gifts sing loudly; others whisper. All require participation.

Tapping into it begins with attention. What activities make time disappear, leave you both spent and alive, invite you to learn more tomorrow than you knew today? Paying attention to that energy is a compass. From there comes the unglamorous part: practice, feedback, and a tolerance for being a beginner longer than feels comfortable. A gift is more seed than statue; cultivation shapes it.

There are obstacles. Comparison convinces us that if our gift doesn’t look like someone else’s, it isn’t real. External expectations push us toward safe scripts. Fear of mediocrity stalls the first step. Agency matters precisely because these pressures exist. No one can do the internal listening or the daily repetitions for us. Community can support and refine, but ownership remains personal.

Not every gift must become a career or spectacle. The teacher who turns disorder into curiosity, the friend who listens others into clarity, the coder who makes complexity human, the organizer who knits neighbors into a network, these are gifts at work. They can coexist, evolve, and shift with seasons of life.

Responsibility accompanies discovery. Using a gift ethically, in service of something larger than ego, gives it direction. Curiosity, humility, and courage are the tools; small experiments, reflective pauses, and steady commitments are the method. Expect missteps; let them teach. Expect plateaus; let them incubate.

Human potential is abundant, not rare. When individuals accept the task of cultivating what is uniquely theirs, the collective gains. Begin where the energy is, do the work, and keep listening for the next layer waiting to be tapped.