Personal talents: more than 20 tips to develop them

Talent: a somewhat unknown concept. Throughout this article we will try to describe what talent is and show various strategies, techniques and habits to develop it.

Cases of wasted talent

• JuanHe is young and smart enough, but when he pretends to carry out being his own boss, he ends up bankrupt.
• ManuelHe has two careers and multiple plans in life, however he has not managed to realize any.
• Anna, a woman with an extraordinary talent for mathematics, but she is not aware of it, if she successfully overcomes She understands that the exams were very easy, and not obtaining the maximum qualification produces a serious frustration.
• Patricia, she is a very diligent and professional woman designing furniture and like photographing, but she is the target of criticism from her relatives, it gives her the feeling that everything is in vain and that she loses the weather.
• RobertHe invests a lot of time in his activities, he has many recognitions, but he does not stand out since he is afraid to let others see the skills he possesses. Deep down inside he doesn't feel that he deserves any success, and by sabotaging himself he feels that he has failed.
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• Jessica, when it is made known constantly reveals its negative aspects: "the bad thing about myself is ...". He is not able to realize the good things that fill his life, and always endlessly proclaiming the negative.

They are people who possess some talent, ability or skill, and yet are unable to feel fully fulfilled.

Personal talents: how to show them to the world?

Countless personalities have existed or exist that have dared to show their innate talent and that have left their mark in history: in music Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, known What Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who in his career left us more than 600 works.

The vast majority of us would like to have a masterful talent. In spite of everything, very few people have had gifts like these in the course of all human history. It is very important to bear in mind that a person who was born with this talent dies with it. The proof is that in December 1791, even on the last day of his existence, Mozart passed away, pen in hand, composing what would be his last work of music, a Requiem (for the funeral mass), the one that be finalized.

But does everyone have talents?

Language is polysemic, which means that the same word word has multiple meanings. The term talent It is not an exception, since it is related to the intellectual capacity or intelligence of a person, to the ability to do something useful or beautiful. Equally, Talent is defined as the innate ability or ability to excel in one or more areas or specific thematic activities. It is also described as the ability to exercise a certain occupation in carrying out an activity.

It must be emphasized that we all have some capacity or ability that we can strengthen, the important thing is to discover them, be constant and work with determination, to obtain profit.

Some talents are natural; others must be acquired through learning. There are things that we are simply unable to do. But we are all capable of improving in many capacities based on training and enthusiasm.

However, talent in this polysemic sense of language has meanings, such as: an intellectual capacity, something innate, an aptitude, even a strength. I will use the word generically to refer to a form of behavior that makes us improve our life or situation.

There are multiple avenues to capitalize on personal talent. This proposal is only one of many options to discover, enhance and maintain it, it contains the following steps:

Multiple intelligences as a reference to know our talents

Link it with some of the multiple intelligences, know how to manage our emotional intelligence and guide our talents to specific goals.

The theory of multiple intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner teaches us that intelligence is not unitary, but that each person has more or less developed some Intelligence types. Thus, we are all potentially talented in some aspect of life, we all have something to contribute to the world if we manage to channel our talent through an activity in which we stand out especially.

How do we relate to our environment?

We make contact with the world through the five senses, we give "meaning" to information and act accordingly. Later, there are clearly identified processes, one is the use of the organs in charge of the senses and another is how the senses perceive and determine what reality means.

We use the senses externally to perceive the world, internally to represent the experience to ourselves.

Perception, neurons... talent from the lens of neuroscience

The neurons that make up the chemical storm of the brain they are interconnected and exchange information between them, the environment influences us to learn, and thought influences the way neurons connect. In this amazing influence that we now know thanks to neuroscience, we need to use our connectome to acquire new skills or to further develop those of which already we have.

It is currently proven that positive or negative thoughts not only change the reality that we perceive internally or externally but also also part of the interlacing of wires inside our brain. Conectomy is how the neuroscientist Sebastian Seung describes it, that is, the way they communicate and influence the brain, The 100 billion neurons that make it up and can get a staggering 1 billion different connections. So our experiences can change the connectome. The countless number of connections makes us materially unique people. That is why Seung affirms: “you are your connectome”.

If we harbor deeply ingrained behaviors, even negative ones that we believe we cannot change, it is true, because we repeat the same connection with our thinking, with positive positive behaviors we do the same but we direct our learning to reach more options, solutions and goals.

Are we all smart?

The history of intelligence dates back to the beginning of the last century, in which as psychologists we We were oriented to take measurement of all behavior. The intellectual quotient (IQ) and the Inteligence test Those who measured it understood different areas to find out what our intelligence was through a series of statistical points. Divided people into average smart or above or below average. Often this gave the opportunity for someone so evaluated to acquire a label that could carry a lifetime from her, which is false because we can all develop skills or abilities regardless of the context of this evaluation.

We do not have only a single computer in our heads as the human connectome shows, that is, no there is a unique type of intelligence but several, some well identified in appearance and others by develop. Howard Gardner, states that intelligence is the ability to put thoughts in order and coordinate them with actionss. There are different types of intelligences that mark the potentialities with characteristic accents of each individual, in strengths and weaknesses.

Each person has different intelligences (visual-spatial, verbal or linguistic, Mathematical logician, body-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic) and cognitive abilities. These intelligences work together, but as semi-autonomous entities. Each person develops some more than the others. Culture and segments of society place different emphasis on them.

Possibly we have more than one ability or capacity, the challenge is to get to know each other more, since There are people who are excellent artists, however they require someone to help them sell their talents., that is, they do not have developed interpersonal intelligence. Moreover, when we try to take advantage of our talents we incur contradictions so that they do not come out, it is called brain modularity.

Another part influences us is how we handle our emotions or Emotional Intelligence (EI).

Is it enough to know our hidden intelligence or do we also need emotional intelligence?

Having talents and skills is not enough to achieve success, and if we do, emotionally the cost is very high.. Today, in the same way that we exercise our muscles, we can do the same with our emotions. Being angry and acting without thinking can lead the most prepared person or the most capable intellectual to turn into a beast, in a dynamic called emotional kidnapping.

Negative emotions block learning and prevent you from developing talents. If they persist longer than is advisable, they even decrease your state of health, this principle is proven by the neuroendocrinoimmunology.

Intelligence may not be of the slightest importance when you are dominated by emotions. We really have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. The goal of emotional intelligence is balance, not suppression.

If emotions are too subdued they create apathy and distance; when they are out of control, they are extreme and persistent, they become pathological. Mechanisms for balancing emotions; control impulsiveness, enthusiasm, empathy, perseverance despite frustration, deferring rewards and the ability to self-motivate, since not always someone is behind us.

The most important thing is to become aware and practice; the daily training of our skills. It is not easy, but our connectome can be remade and that change in neuronal routes once it is established becomes a habit of life. There are those who will not achieve it and will only suffer, they have been stuck in the conflict (Marco of disapproval). These people could use the saying that says: "genius and figure to the grave", by way of sarcasm, it is clear.

Giving up who we are leaves us without identity, does not develop skills or talents, leaves us without the possibility of feeling self-realized, we will not discover them if we are not bold. Given this perspective, we will get nowhere if we do not set goals in life.

What do we need to achieve our goals?

To help you promote good habits and attitudes to develop your talents, we have captured more than 30 small tips for this purpose throughout the following paragraphs. Hopefully it will serve you.

• Commitment: without committing there is no destiny or fulfillment. Trying to do so is useless, requires planning and flexibility, and giving more than is required of you.

• Divide goals into small goals: you don't get to the top all at once, you have to climb little by little.

• Make the disadvantages, advantages: "if you're shy look for a job where you need to talk ”.

• Respond to disappointment: the important thing is not what happens to you, but how you react to it.

• Get all the support you can, the goal is not reached alone.

• Surround yourself with people that have similar ideas.

• Ask yourself and imagine how you would like to see yourself when developing your talents. Projecting is starting to walk the road.

• Your thoughts are what determine your life.

• Have goals: short, medium and long term.

• You are the architect of your future, build what you want.

In conclusion...

• Self-knowledge is the basis for discovering and developing your talents. The proposed strategy is simple but requires effort.

• Determine your representative system: visual, olfactory, auditory, sensory or sentimental. Or a combination of one and the other.

• Your profession may be related to one of the multiple intelligences (visual - spatial, verbal or linguistic, logical-mathematical, kinesthetic-corporal, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal. It is best to take advantage of your representative system to accelerate the learning of new skills. Or take the opportunity to learn more about the topics that you are passionate about by relating them to your multiple intelligences and your representative system.

• Learn to manage your emotions, no talent will serve you if you suffer an emotional kidnapping, apathy and laziness dominate you.

• Faced with any difficulty, to develop your talents, set as a goal to think less three solutions of how to achieve it, put your talent to the test.

Developing your talents is not a matter of a day, you need to be constant in order to achieve the goals you have set for yourself. If you want to get where you have been, do what you have never done. It is very important to meet people with whom you share interests. Get social and gather as much support as you can!

Some more tips to enhance our talents

"There is only a small part of the universe that you will know for sure that can be improved, and that part is you."

—Aldous Huxley

• We cannot choose the circumstances that have touched usBut we can choose the way we react to them and adjust the emotions we feel to cushion their negative impact.

• You cannot change a problem in the same environment in which it was generated. Sometimes you have to give a 180 degree change to change.

• The behaviors if they are not conscious cannot be changed.

• If we are not able to face our emotions we will not be able to develop our talents.

• If we control our emotions, this makes us more efficient our multiple intelligences and it helps us to develop our talent to the maximum.

• Astronaut José Hernández says: "being persistent is not enough, you need to be effective". Perseverance is effective when it is accompanied by self-awareness, focus, and a positive attitude, ”says Marianne Blancas, human resources consultant and executive coach.

• Learn to be optimistic: "The optimist sees the positive and the negative side, but he decides to stay with the positive."