01 Everyone has talent.
Li Bai said: I am born with a talent that will be useful.
Understanding what your talent is and how to use it to achieve a better life is a question that everyone should think about.
Maybe you will say that you have never found anything outstanding about yourself when you grow up, let alone talent.
Don't worry, it's not that you don't have talent, but that you haven't discovered it yet. In the book "Talent Driven" by
, the author Laura Garnett mentioned: Discover your talents and devote yourself to talent development.
Laura herself has worked in many industries, has worked as a nutritionist, has sold wine, has been a presidential assistant, and has worked in marketing management.
's rich experience in employment made her realize clearly: if you fail at work, you are looking for the wrong job.
In her opinion, being able to do the current work well and achieve results has proved that she has shown her talent in her work.
If you can find this talent and make good use of it, you can cultivate your ability to handle transactions efficiently.
Laura is now a performance strategist and has come into contact with a large number of people of all kinds. Through observation and summary, she strongly recommends that everyone find their talents as soon as possible, and then engage in a job that makes them deeply satisfied and meaningful according to the guidance of their talents.
In today's environment, for the general public, having a successful career, getting a considerable income, and realizing self-worth should be a great thing of happiness.
02 How to discover your talent?
Laura mentioned a real case of a client.
client is a woman who can always put forward her ideas about work in precise and attractive language.
Whenever this time, her working condition will be very good and her efficiency will be very high.
Laura defines this ability to be good at organizing language, accurately expressing her own opinions and gaining recognition from others as a talent.
In this way, everyone can find their talents at work.
For example, you are good at making tables, analyzing data, and have a sensitivity and awareness of data that is far beyond others. This is your talent.
Or, you are skilled in drawing drawings, faster and better than colleagues, this is your talent.
Find things that are difficult but you can break through and achieve good results, and your talent is hidden in it. The book
introduces that trying to ask and answer these questions yourself can help us discover talent:
Question 1: When and what do you do, are you in your best state?
Question 2: What is your way of thinking or solution to the problem when it brings you this state?
Question 3: When will you feel bored, inattentive or frustrated?
gives you the most realistic answer, from 1 to 10 points depending on the degree of the answer.
focuses on information that scores above 8 points.
These are inseparable from your talent.
So, now start paying attention to your performance at work. Ask people around you who are familiar with you, it is also a good way to understand what kind of talent you have.
03 How to use your talents to drive yourself?
As a workplace person, everyone will think that the best driving force for themselves is promotion and salary increase, which is simple and crude but effective.
In fact, these effects are limited and have poor durability.
Laura draws on the views of Daniel, the author of the book "Drive Power":
is truly effective in driving these three points:
is the first, autonomous. I decide what to do.
second, specialized. You can do what you want to do better and better.
The third, target. A desire beyond oneself.
When we can freely choose what to do and do this to the extreme and surpass our desires, we are very happy to continue working hard and paying, thereby achieving a positive cycle.
This is an ideal state, but reality may not be like this.
For example, it is difficult for you to choose what you like completely independently.
is like working, and we often do what we should do.
Similarly, there is no job in the world that is 100% suitable for your talent, so it is valuable to be able to use your talent in 70% of your working hours.
So, don't be demanding perfection.
04 The meaning of talent-driven
Having said so much, I found that Laura repeatedly mentioned several concepts in the book "Talent-driven":
Sense of accomplishment, pleasure, and satisfaction. The words
are all emotional value behind them.
simply means it can bring happiness and joy.
For example, if you have a successful career and excellent work, you will be able to enjoy happiness, have a sense of accomplishment and feel satisfied in the process of getting rich rewards and improving your status. These positive emotions such as
are the main parts of happiness.
So, this book is actually to tell readers the truth:
re-examine your current work, find your talent points, and then carry forward it, continue to make breakthroughs in your career, and do a good job in your career, which is an important thing to enhance your sense of happiness in life.
It deserves our serious treatment.
If you can't find the talent, you might as well change to a job with a higher degree of adaptability.
talent everyone has, but some people have not found it yet.
has a job and can also use your talents to make it easy for you to complete it. It is a blessing for ordinary people in the current environment.
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