I have to answer the question "日本には「好きこそものの上手なれ」という 諺 がありますが、どんな意味だと思いますか。"
using **生かす** and my idea is to answer that _if you are interested in
something, you'll do your best_. I started writing "あなたが何かに興味があるなら、あなたは..."
and I don't know how to continue the sentence with _you'll do your best_ using
生かす.
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How to use 生かす to express "you'll do your best"?
First, 好きこそものの上手なれ literally means "Liking something is being good at it", or
"If you like something, you'll do it well." 上手 means being good at something,
not doing your best. This こそ-なれ is [koso
musubi](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/kobun-adjectives/) used in archaic
grammar, but you can probably forget about it for now.

The difficult part is how we can use the transitive verb 生かす ("to make use of
～", "to take advantage of ～" or "to keep ～ alive") to explain this proverb.
生かす is simply unnecessary to explain the meaning of this proverb. (Of course
we can create a long example sentence that happens to include 生かす, but I'm not
sure if that is the right approach.) If you already have an answer and can
share it with us, we may have some meaningful discussion about it...
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