The Secret to Realizing Self-Worth

Xuefeng

February 23, 2025

A lump of cow dung, when placed in a city—whether on the street, in a supermarket, or in an office building—is not only worthless but also unpleasant to people. However, if the same lump of cow dung is taken to the countryside—whether placed in a vegetable field or a garden—it becomes welcomed and valued. This is how it realizes its self-worth.

If you give a plow ox to an old farmer, he will be overjoyed. But if you give the same ox to a famous singer, what will she do? She will either give it away or slaughter it for food. The value of the ox can only be realized in the hands of the farmer.

Qi Baishi’s painting Twelve Landscape Screens was auctioned for 930 million yuan. If I were to bid for it, my highest offer would be 99 yuan. This shows that the value of something depends on the beholder. If you are appreciated, you have value; if you are not, you do not.

If Elon Musk were to raise cattle in South Africa, at best, he would be an obscure farmer. But by building rockets and cars in the United States, he became the world’s richest person.

Now, we can see that the secret to realizing the value of a person or a thing is as follows:

1.Go where you are needed.

2.Go where you are appreciated.

3.Do work you enjoy and excel at, and pursue a career you are passionate about.

These are the secrets to discovering and realizing your self-worth. Do not doubt yourself, do not think you are useless, and do not believe you are good for nothing. Nature creates all things with purpose, and everything has its function and value. Humans were created by gods and Super Celestial Beings, and as long as one is human, one has value. If a person reaches old age without achieving anything, the problem is not that they lack value, but that they have not discovered and applied these three secrets to realizing self-worth.