Learn How to Discover Your Talents and Strengthen Them

You have looked around and realized that everyone you know has a talent. If you are wondering if you have a talent or strength, then good news awaits!

If you have a pulse, then you have certainly got a talent. What you may not realize is that talent is often a direct function of how much time is spent engaged in a particular activity. There are those who can pick up a sport the first time or play the violin like a professional concertmaster at the age of five, but not many.

Every talented peak performance athlete or anyone who has achieved an unparalleled level of proficiency at his or her craft has spent more time than anyone else doing that very same thing.

Even the stars did not become great overnight. Michael Jordan did not pick up a basketball the first time and play the way that he eventually did in the NBA. Tiger Woods did not wake up one morning winning PGA Golf tournaments.

These experts and all others in any field that you can imagine spent inordinate amounts of time honing their craft to get to the highest level possible.

Now what does this have to do with your talent or strength? Simple. What most people consider talent is usually more a function of something you have spent the most time doing.

Let us think for a minute about that. What do you spend the most time doing? You might laugh, but what if someone's favorite pastime is watching TV? "What could their talent or strength be?"

Consider these ideas:

Perhaps that person knows everything about what is on TV or is a movie buff. With this intuitive knowledge about what is on television, this person could easily start a highly informative blog about what is on TV or start a movie/TV show critique website.
This person knows so much about movies and how they are made that he could begin creating an original movie!
You see, the list goes on and on, and chances are, you have strengths that you do not even know about or consider to be strengths.
If you listen to others, you may find a helpful clue as to what your strengths are. Have people ever complimented you about something you did?
Have others looked at you in amazement over anything that you did, no matter how small or insignificant it seemed to you at the time? If you are thinking back to the time, you burped the ABC's then it is time to hire an agent since yes, there are professional "burpers" too!
On a more serious note, even if you have not elicited shock and awe from people this does not mean that you do not possess a significant strength or talent worthy of being recognized for. Wouldn't it be silly if everyone else in the NBA quit because they were not as good as Michael Jordan?

Do not worry if it takes some time for you to discover your talents.

Another effective method for figuring out what your good at is sitting down and writing out all the different things that you do throughout the day. Try and zero in on what you spend the most amount of time doing, and you will be on the fast track towards finding your hidden talent.

Discovering your hidden talents can open new dimensions in your life and bring you a fulfillment and zest for life that you never realized was possible!

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