Know Your Talent
Adnan Hirani
Leading Data & Analytics Teams | Senior Engineering Manager | Empowering Data-Driven Insights
According to the dictionary, a talent is a natural endowment of a person. It is an ability or natural capacity that we have, which may range from our creativity to our athletic abilities. We all have them, but we are not always so good at identifying what they are. Sometimes they can be right in front of us, and we miss them.
You were born with unique strengths. They may seem invisible and useless to you but I assure you 100% they’re visible to others and people need them.
Finding your talent is actually much easier than you may realize. Here are tools which can you can use to find your hidden talent.
- Personal Satisfactions
Your talents may be demonstrating itself in other ways. Are there magazine topics that you just can’t get enough of? Are there shows you love? Think about what it is that you love to do most when you have free time. If you are drawn toward it, it is a natural talent.
- Less Care About Money
Think about something which you love to do most and you don't care about money which you are earning through it. If you are drawn toward it, it is a natural talent.
- Other will acknowledge your talent even your enemy
Those around you usually know what your talents are, even when you don’t. If you think about it, people have likely been telling you that you are good at something for a long time. You just weren’t listening. Now is the time to listen.
- Out of Time and Space
Are there things that you really love to do and you don't care about time while doing that work, while others may struggle or muddle their way through? Is there something in which they struggle while you stand there feeling like it was a cake walk! Is yes, then that is your talent because one can never feel tired if he is working on something which he is passionate about.
- Shut up already
Is there a specific subject that you love to talk about, often to the point that your friends want to shoot you? Consider the subject, perhaps it may be one of your hidden talents or is connected to one.
When you know what your talents are, you feel more in tune with your life. You can also use those talents to excel in the business world. Whether you leverage those talents in your product or service, or you use them to network and make quality connections, they are important to know. When you capitalize on your talents, it no longer feels like work, it just feels like living. And anything that makes business and life more enjoyable is bound to be a good thing.
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. “ William Barclay”
Lead Consultant at Veraqor | Azure Data Engineer, DWH, Data Analytics
8 年Everyone has some talents which makes him/her unique. The important thing is that how quickly someone digs its hidden talent. Good Article.