fast learner + capped potential v moderate learner + uncapped potential

Which would you prefer? Being someone who learns fast but with a limited potential or someone who learns moderately but with an unlimited potential?

Obviously, being someone who learns fast and has unlimited potential is the best. But reality usually doesn't give you the best of both worlds. And this is pretty much justified.

For someone who learns fast, he's usually someone intelligent, but intelligence comes at a price, always achieving success makes you follow a pre-determined path, you tend not to explore and make mistakes and soon your mind is moulded to always follow this path. Whereas, for someone who learns moderately or slowly, mistakes are abundant, he gets used to making mistakes and learns what's right but never fails to question why he is wrong. He argues for his cause and will learn to formulate his own theories.

If you assume that speed of learning results in this pre-set route to take, then this reasoning probably holds true. But well, there are anomalies, there are people who learn fast but can think out of the box too. These are the geniuses, the future greats of their field.

Are you one of them? It's time to stop being so obsessed with being right all the time.

Secret

Today, I just read through the lyrics to Jay Chou's new (not really) song, Secret.

不能说的秘密

词:方文山曲:周杰伦
☆不能说的秘密电影主打

冷咖啡离开了杯垫
我忍住的情绪在很后面

拼命想挽回的从前
在我脸上依旧清晰可见

最美的不是下雨天
是曾与你躲过雨的屋檐
回忆的画面
在荡着秋千梦开始不甜

你说把爱渐渐放下会走更远
又何必去改变已错过的时间
你用你的指尖阻止我说再见
想像你在身边在完全失去之前

你说把爱渐渐放下会走更远
或许命运的签只让我们遇见
只让我们相恋这一季的秋天
飘落后才发现这幸福的碎片
要我怎么捡

Looking at it like that, I didn't really understand. But I read through the translation and it kind of touched me. Not that much anymore, but if it were a few months back, it would have had a profound effect. Anyway, the translation's not that good so I shall attempt my own.

Secret, by Jay Chou

The cold coffee left the coaster
I hold my feelings very far back

The past that I try hard to salvage
Can still be seen clearly on my face

The rainy day wasn't the most beautiful
But were the times we spent hiding from the rain under the eaves
The images of our past
As I'm swinging on the swing, the dreams start to lose their sweetness

You say we will go further if we let love go
Why should we change the times that we have already missed
You use your finger to prevent me from saying goodbye
I imagine you beside me before I completely lose you

You say we will go further if we let love go
Perhaps fate only allowed us to meet
And fall in love for only the autumn of one season
I only discover after they float down,
These fragments of happiness, how should I ever pick them up?

It really is a touching song actually.