So, I am convinced that talent, self-realization, and purpose are one and the same semantic root. But in order to find it, you need to understand yourself, put everything in its place. Then it will be much easier.
Often and regardless of age, in our heads formed a kind of porridge, which is boiled out of different experiences, beliefs, impressions and so on. The well-known example of a cluttered attic, or pantry, where for decades something is piled up, forgotten, is apt. Sometimes we don't even know what lies there.
Finding it means first organizing it.
We should take that attic apart, put everything in its proper place. And today we're going to take a big step not only in that, but in understanding what to do with it all.
And two questions at once:
What did we love to do most when we were kids, or young adults? What did we dream about? I'm not talking about ice cream and toys right now. What really thrilled us when we were alone and spent hours dreaming about something. I even know a lot of people will answer that. What was there as a child is there to stay. I don't argue, it's still there, in the deepest shelves of our pantry. We don't even remember what's there. We'll come back to that question.
What do we really want now? I don't mean a car or an apartment. All of these things are often unrelated to talent. And that's what everyone wants. Yes, and we swap one car for another, and so on. Money comes and goes. Talent is a constant, evolving thing, and talent is always with you. Money is a consequence of talent, not the other way around. What do you really want in life?
If you haven't found your talent yet, that's where it's hiding, in our hidden or unrealized desires.
Everything comes from those desires, which unknowingly man hides in himself, puts off for later, or even is afraid of them. In other words, buried it.
We will deal with all of this in order, but first a short parable.
A parable about talent
Once a rich owner of a large house was going away for a long time. He decided to leave his servants different numbers of talents (measures of weight of silver). He left five talents for one servant, three for another, and one for another.
After a while, the master of the estate returned and asked what they had done with their money. The one who had the five talents said that he had invested it, doubling the profit. Now he gives the five talents to his master and asks him to keep the rest.
The second servant, with his three talents, answered in the same way. The other servant, who had only one talent, replied that he did not know what he would do with it. He thought it would be better to keep it safe and bury it.
The master really took from everybody exactly as much as he gave, including the one to whom he gave only one talent.
That's exactly what we get, if we are afraid of life, if we avoid the world and our surroundings, most of the time we never get to know our best qualities and talents. You just have to remember this and give yourself credit for it.
After all, our inner world is also replenished by impressions from the outside.
Since we have not found it in him being a recluse, then we need to do something else.
How to find your talents in 3 steps, the first step
Before you can find your talent, you have to become as open to the world as possible. I've known people who acted closed off in society. They would come to work, cram themselves into a corner like mice, do their work and go home. No one knew anything about them as an employee. They just did the simplest and most routine work, but for the time being, until they went the other way.
Is this about introverts, would you say?
Yes, it is many times easier for an extrovert to be open. And the first step is more natural for them. That said, talents are evenly distributed between extroverts and introverts.
There is no dependence of the share of talent on a person's nature!
This step of opening oneself to the world is important, but it is not the only one. In the next step, extroverts already face their own problem. It is more difficult for them to concentrate on their inner world. The introvert feels much more confident here.
After all, an introvert in society does not mean a recluse always and everywhere. Here it is a matter of his development and feeling comfortable with himself, in a certain environment.
Often the introvert is in a better position where he has learned to play the extrovert's field well, while having a rich inner world. To open up to the world means to throw off the limits not only of one's environment, but also of one's perception.
This is called the harmony of personal development.
How to find your talents in 3 steps, the second step
You need to deal with your psychophysical nature. By the way, the first and second step in terms of order, it is only on paper. It is possible to start all at once, and someone would be better to change their order of priority.
The psychophysical nature of a person is a complex of his strengths and weaknesses in the body-mentality nexus. On the one hand, each person is unique, on the other hand, there is a basic structure of human types, and there is also a purely personal one.
It's like how the foundation structure of a house can be the same in its design and load, but the design of the house, the layout, it's already individual characteristics.
And we'll go to the basements, the foundation, because that's where your talents are.
Because if you're reading this article, it means you haven't found your talent on the surface.
If you haven't found your talent on the surface, it means that it's even deeper inside us.
It's not easy to understand and sort yourself out, and often people don't understand themselves. Many of us know our strengths and weaknesses, but many do not. Some people even think that the qualities they have developed are their strengths. That may be so. However, many fall into that trap.
The trap is that by circumstances of life, or through one's own super efforts, one has developed certain abilities in oneself.
For example, while working in an office as a sales manager, a person eventually becomes a good and then a good employee in terms of sales results. From the outside it may seem as if he has an aptitude for it.
So, there you go!
If you develop in a certain direction year after year, there is a certain result, and many others still surpass you, then you really have nothing more than some ability. Talent makes itself known in a much broader way.
How to find and discover your talents, two kinds of talent
The first kind of talent is born out of your abilities, you work at it, the talent takes a very long time to mature. Talent matures over years or a lifetime. You gradually, over the course of your life, are told more and more often that you are talented. First your parents, then acquaintances, then strangers.
Everyone can develop their abilities into a talent.
After reading the entire article, it is necessary to approach this issue comprehensively, and work in this direction.
The second type of talent is, as people say, - from God. It manifests itself very quickly, and as a rule, everyone says so - God himself stroked the person. Here it is important to note that our parents and friends often substitute our abilities for talent. They want to make us feel good. Parents want their children to be talented.
First mistake.
So, be careful here. We must systematically hear it from strangers and many people. And talent, such a thing that its consequence is the rapid spread of your product, your quality to the masses. Even if not very wide, but already much more than your circle of communication.
I generally think that super effort is more of the first kind of talent. Talent, which is from God, speaks for itself.
And it's not really yours. It's from God =))
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