How to Discover Your Own Unique Talents: Ten Eye-Opening Tips
One of the odd things in life is that people are given innate abilities to do things, but aren't told what they are. Everyone pretty much has to find out on their own what they are good at doing. Unfortunately, not all innate abilities are as easy to discover as a talent for drawing or singing. For these people, there has to be some searching. Below are ten eye-opening tips on how to discover your own unique talents.
1 - Test yourself and try things. It might sound obvious, but the best way to find out if you have any talent for something, is to give it a try. Sometimes this may be in the form of a test, written or otherwise, other times it might be in simply seeing something someone else is doing and giving it a try to see if you can do it too.
2 - Copy others. One way to try other things, is to copy what someone else does. This goes without saying in sports or other occupations that by their nature have people watching them. But there are others too, such as laying brickwork or carving statues, or building web sites. Look at how other people do things, then try them for yourself to see if you feel like you are any good at them.
3 - Ask other people. Ask other people about their jobs, what they do, how they do them. Ask them if they enjoy it and if so, what parts. Also, ask other people if you can accompany them to work sometime, to see for yourelf what goes on. Perhaps there are parts of the job you could actually try while you are there.
4 - Read. A great way to find out if you might have a talent for something is reading. Read books, magazines or anything else you can find. Think about the person that wrote what you read, and what they may be like. Perhaps you could write too. Or maybe the writer mentions something that you might find interesting. Being interested is good, because quite often in is an indicator of whether you might have a knack for it.
5 - Do some research. It's easy to do research these days. Just get on the web and start trolling. Search for odd things, and see what comes up. Search for jobs, and careers and hobbies and things people do for fun. Search for whatever comes to mind when you're reading the results of some other search. Think about all the things other people are doing, then try some of them yourself. Maybe you'll find your talent is in searching for stuff on the net.
6 - Travel. Get out of the house, or away from where you work. Get away from where you usually go and do things. Doing so will give you fresh eyes on the world and help you see some of the things people do that don't stand out so much , but might be something you'd be doing.
7 - Open your eyes. Drive downtown, look at all the buildings. Most of them have signs on them that give you a clue as to what goes on in there. Is there something going on in there that you would like to do?
8 - Sign up for courses. Most communities have courses in hobby type stuff; photography or painting or whatever. Why not give each of them a try if you can afford it, maybe you're the next Claude Monet and just don't know it yet.
9 - Join organizations. The cool thing about joining organizations is that they are comprised of people. All of whom do various things and have various interests. You could ask each and every one of them not only what they do, but what they do for fun or as a hobby. You might find something that piques your interest and leads you down a road of discovery.
10 - Notice occupations or activities on television and in movies. Movies and television have all kinds of people doing all kinds of things. The problem though is that most people generally notice only what the star does, which is to bad, because Hollywood doesn't have so much in the imagination department when it comes to jobs for the stars. So, why not start paying attention to what all the supporting characters are doing, or even what the support people do to help make the movie or show itself.
These ten eye-opening tips on how to discover your own unique talents are for anyone who feels like maybe they are just drifting through life, but could be doing something they are truly good at if only they could figure out what that is. If you are such a person, I hope these tips help you find your own unique gift. Good luck.
One of the odd things in life is that people are given innate abilities to do things, but aren't told what they are. Everyone pretty much has to find out on their own what they are good at doing. Unfortunately, not all innate abilities are as easy to discover as a talent for drawing or singing. For these people, there has to be some searching. Below are ten eye-opening tips on how to discover your own unique talents.
1 - Test yourself and try things. It might sound obvious, but the best way to find out if you have any talent for something, is to give it a try. Sometimes this may be in the form of a test, written or otherwise, other times it might be in simply seeing something someone else is doing and giving it a try to see if you can do it too.
2 - Copy others. One way to try other things, is to copy what someone else does. This goes without saying in sports or other occupations that by their nature have people watching them. But there are others too, such as laying brickwork or carving statues, or building web sites. Look at how other people do things, then try them for yourself to see if you feel like you are any good at them.
3 - Ask other people. Ask other people about their jobs, what they do, how they do them. Ask them if they enjoy it and if so, what parts. Also, ask other people if you can accompany them to work sometime, to see for yourelf what goes on. Perhaps there are parts of the job you could actually try while you are there.
4 - Read. A great way to find out if you might have a talent for something is reading. Read books, magazines or anything else you can find. Think about the person that wrote what you read, and what they may be like. Perhaps you could write too. Or maybe the writer mentions something that you might find interesting. Being interested is good, because quite often in is an indicator of whether you might have a knack for it.
5 - Do some research. It's easy to do research these days. Just get on the web and start trolling. Search for odd things, and see what comes up. Search for jobs, and careers and hobbies and things people do for fun. Search for whatever comes to mind when you're reading the results of some other search. Think about all the things other people are doing, then try some of them yourself. Maybe you'll find your talent is in searching for stuff on the net.
6 - Travel. Get out of the house, or away from where you work. Get away from where you usually go and do things. Doing so will give you fresh eyes on the world and help you see some of the things people do that don't stand out so much , but might be something you'd be doing.
7 - Open your eyes. Drive downtown, look at all the buildings. Most of them have signs on them that give you a clue as to what goes on in there. Is there something going on in there that you would like to do?
8 - Sign up for courses. Most communities have courses in hobby type stuff; photography or painting or whatever. Why not give each of them a try if you can afford it, maybe you're the next Claude Monet and just don't know it yet.
9 - Join organizations. The cool thing about joining organizations is that they are comprised of people. All of whom do various things and have various interests. You could ask each and every one of them not only what they do, but what they do for fun or as a hobby. You might find something that piques your interest and leads you down a road of discovery.
10 - Notice occupations or activities on television and in movies. Movies and television have all kinds of people doing all kinds of things. The problem though is that most people generally notice only what the star does, which is to bad, because Hollywood doesn't have so much in the imagination department when it comes to jobs for the stars. So, why not start paying attention to what all the supporting characters are doing, or even what the support people do to help make the movie or show itself.
These ten eye-opening tips on how to discover your own unique talents are for anyone who feels like maybe they are just drifting through life, but could be doing something they are truly good at if only they could figure out what that is. If you are such a person, I hope these tips help you find your own unique gift. Good luck.
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