One of the great reasons why many people have not found their purpose in life, that is, a happy way of life in tune with what they feel and think, is because they do not know or are not aware of what their true goals are. skills, their innate talents. If you yourself feel in that wheel of work, monotony and not feeling fulfilled, in this post we will guide you step by step on how to discover your innate talent to be able to dedicate yourself fully to it. Without a doubt, it is the first step that every consultant and professional should take if they really want to have a successful career.
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What are innate aptitudes or talents?
Skills are those innate talents that you have since you were born. What you just do well naturally, even without having knowledge or without having prepared for it.
Do you remember a time when you did something for the first time and you were surprised by the good result? That is one of your innate talents! And it is not necessary that it be something 100% focused on the professional, there are hundreds of things from day to day such as empathy, managing emotions, written or oral communication, etc. that we can then take to the workplace.
There are many aptitudes, they could even be considered infinite, but below you can see a list of the main areas where they could be classified:
- Logic reasoning
- Abstract reasoning
- Verbal comprehension and written expression
- spatial reasoning
- mental concentration
- Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination
- Memory
- Creativity
- Analytical capacity
- Synthesis capacity
- Physical-mechanical reasoning
- Observation ability
- body skill
- musical ability
- inductive reasoning
- Deductive reasoning
- Social
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How to discover your innate talent?
Some talents are expressed from when we are little. There are always children with a greater capacity for letters, numbers, music, languages… But many talents lie dormant waiting for their expression, which occurs as you live, experiencing new things and when you circumstances force us to put them into practice. That moment when you are surprised by how good you are at something, when you do something new and think that you have been doing it all your life… there you have your talent!
Therefore, to discover your innate talents you will have to:
- Think about everything you were good at as a child, even what you have stopped doing. For example: Do you remember that time you won a painting drawing but someone laughed at your drawing and you never painted again?
- Think about everything you have discovered throughout your life that you are good at. It doesn’t matter if you want to dedicate yourself to it or not, it is important that you have all your innate skills on the table, whether or not you believe they are valid or useful at work. For example: Do you remember how good you were at dancing when you went to class for a while?
- Thoroughly review your happiest experiences, the moments where you have felt proud of yourself and what you have done. Surely there you discover talents that perhaps you have never considered.
- Then, think of all those things that you would like to do but have never tried for fear of not knowing how to do them or simply lazy. Test yourself! Only then will you know if you are really good at something. Think what is the worst that could happen? and the best? worth? The answer is a resounding yes.
- Ask people you know and who know you a lot what they think your main talents are. Family, friends, co-workers… the external perspective will give you a new vision of everything.
- Be open to change. It is possible that many of the things that you think you are good at are not so good even though you like them a lot, and there will also be things that you think you are bad at because at a certain moment something went wrong, and in reality you are made for it. Question everything you take for true.
Discovering your hidden talents will allow you to have a more realistic vision of yourself and your possibilities, in addition to expanding your options when deciding what you want to dedicate yourself to. And it is that, the best thing about discovering these skills is that well combined with your passions, and even better if we combine it with effort, they will lead us to not only professional success, but also personal success for work happy and motivated.
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