Einstein famously said, "Everyone has their own talents. If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it to be stupid." Do you often hear things like, "Look at other people's children..." "With your personality, you'll suffer greatly in the workplace." "You're already this age, how come you haven't achieved anything?" From a young age, we're compared on the same track. In school, we compare grades; in work, we compare salaries; even getting married and having children is a competition of who can do it faster. Only after growing up do we realize that the standard answer may never have existed. "Society gives you a test paper, but it's printed with other people's test questions." You try hard to live up to others' expectations, struggling in areas you're not good at, and always blaming yourself for not being good enough. In the workplace, your lack of eloquence is expected to make you as shrewd as a salesperson. In the family, your preference for solitude is criticized for not being warm and sociable enough. In relationships, your sensitivity is seen as overly sensitive and dramatic. You constantly prune your branches, trying to fit into a shape that everyone likes, but you only dim your own brilliance. "They measure you with rulers, forgetting to ask, you were originally a free wind." Actually, that fish wasn't stupid; it was just placed in the wrong place. Its stage is in rivers, lakes, and seas, not the tree that judges it. So remember: your value should never be defined by others' standards. Stop using your ability to climb trees to judge a fish's life. And stop using worldly standards to measure your unique soul. What truly matters is not climbing the tree that isn't yours, but finding the sea where you can swim freely. "Knowing yourself is a thousand times more important than conforming to the world." Discover your sea. There, all your "strangeness" and "unconventionality" will become your irreplaceable talent and brilliance. Live for yourself, starting from the moment you affirm yourself.