Horace Quote Analysis

Everyone is ascribed to their own unique talents. Most people do not often realize the potential that they hold and instead allow their potential to remain hidden from themselves. The main reason that some people do not elicit their talents is stated in Horace’s famous quote, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” This quote states that a person who faces difficult obstacles will elicit their true potential that was previously hidden from themselves. Horace’s quote is a true and agreeable statement because everyone must face difficult challenges in order to realize their true potential. One famous psychologist named Kazimierz Darowski presented an experiment that proved Horace’s quote was true by observing the survivors after World War II in which the survivors stated that they were more grateful than before the war. There are other personal experiences that have encountered this meaning of the quote by facing difficult
Adversity comes across everyone’s lives in which some decide to overcome the obstacles and others decide to let it be a blockade from their talents. By facing difficult situations, one can realize a potential solution by using his/her talent that is elicited from the difficult situation. The potential/talents of individuals would not be recognized if individuals decide to not overcome the obstacles which would cause their potential/talents to be hidden from themselves. There are difficult experiences in which people go through that resulted in the eliciting of one’s talents such as the observations made by Darowski on the survivors of World War II or an individual’s personal experience. Whether a person already contains a unique talent or not, it is the eliciting of talents from adversity that would lead to a prosperous