Purpose – Activity: Uncover hidden talents.
Talents are natural abilities that come easily to you and allow you to use your strengths. Strengths are activites that require effort and give you strength when you engage in them. Your strengths may include talents, skills you’ve learned, and personal qualities or character strengths that are important to you.
Look for your GIFTS to uncover hidden talents:
- Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
- Ikigai
- Flow
- Take a look at a list
- Seek to Discover U
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner proposed different types of intelligences: linguistic, mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Try the assessment at literacynet.org.
Ikigai
Ikigai is a Japanese word that roughly translates to “the reason you get up in the morning.” Look for the intersection between: what you’re best at, what you love to do the most, and what the world needs most.
Flow
One of the best indicators of talent is the state of flow. Especially notice activities that capture your attention so much that you lose track of time while you are focused on them.
Flow requires your sole attention. Focus requires your soul attention.
Take a look at a list
See the Google database based on a great list of talents from explorepsychology.com.
Seek to Discover U
At Discover U, explore your strengths, skills, and more with the top online assessment tools. Capture the results on a self-assessment form. (or the Talent Matrix Table is a more detailed version available at the Daily PlanIt Shop) Find more online resources at the Discover U Toolkit at Wakelet or via Google. Download a free ebook “How to Start a Fire.”
Brian Tracy on talents:
- You love to do it.
- You do it well.
- It is responsible for most of your success and happiness.
- It was easy to learn and easy to do.
- It holds your attention.
- You love to learn about it.
- When you do it, time stands still.
- You admire and respect other people who are good at it.
When you know and use your talents, you are living on purpose, and purpose is one of the Four Ps of Positive Shift that organize the 12 practices that have been shown by positive psychology to increase happiness.
more resources
- 105 Types of Talent from Simplicable
- The Name Your Talent Exercise from the book “Is Your Genius at Work?” by Dick Richards
- Brand and Purpose Toolkit
- A year of personal growth has weekly activities with a focus on a different life area each month for a year.
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