What makes you special? What singles you out from the crowd? Where do your greatest gifts and talents lie? And why, despite your natural aptitude for particular tasks and challenges, don't you always benefit from these as much as you surely deserve to? In the modern world, skepticism is all the rage. Few of us are willing to accept, on trust, the ideas and ideals that were drummed into the minds of our ancestors. If an assertion can't be proved, why should it be honoured and respected? Is this not an age of reason?