Sometimes a performer or group gives a great performance but doesn’t receive the reception or accolades they might deserve. At that time, it might be worthwhile to use this great expression: “You were selling apples, but they were in the market for oranges.”
You can have the most magnificent, fresh, organic apples…but if someone wants an orange, they will not respond to your offer.
A few takeaways from this logic:
- Have an internal sense of your own performance. Know for yourself whether your apples are good.
- Don’t try to change your nature. You could mask your apples’ flavor and add orange scent – and simultaneously disappoint both apple lovers and orange lovers.
- Keep making your apples better. Eventually you’ll find people who love apples, and you want to offer them the very best.