IDENTIFY YOUR TALENT AND BECOME SUCCESSIFUL

Talent is a group of aptitudes useful for some activity, talents may refer to aptitudes themselves. Aptitude simply means natural ability or skill for a particular type of work. Getting to know your aptitudes, helps you even better to improve your talent(s) and career(s) hence rendering your works productive and of high quality.

To develop your natural talents (once you've identified them) into strengths requires knowledge and skills. Talents* are  your naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behaviour WHILE Knowledge consists of the facts and lessons learned.

Most Tanzanians do not know what their talents are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Most people believe that, their greatest improvement will come from overcoming their weaknesses but they are wrong.! Your greatest improvement will come from identifying your natural talents and strengthening them. There are three "revolutionary tools" for doing this:

1. Understanding how to distinguish your natural talents from things you can learn..

2.A system to identify your dominant talent..

3.A common language to describe your talents.

There are suggestions of answers to: "There is so much I need to improve about myself to become really successiful, that the task seems overwhelming, and I don't know where to start."

Well, once you've identified your dominant natural talents, and assessed to what extent you've developed them into strengths, you can ask yourself:

1. What do I want to achieve with my life?

2.What are my purpose and goals?

3.Which are my most important natural talents I want to develop further?

4.Which of my natural talents contribute most to achieving my purpose and goals?

5.What do I have to do to develop these talents into strength?

6.What knowledge do I need to learn to develop these talents.

7.What skills do I need to acquire or improve to develop these talents?

8.What weakness do I need to overcome to develop these talents?

"It is far more important to know how to deal with the negative than to be "positive"."-Martin Seligman.

I recommend the book "Now, discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. The authors work for the Gallup Organization, which has interviewed more than 2,000,000 people. Based on their conclusions from this extensive research, they propose two basic assumptions:

1.Each person's talents are enduring and unique.

2.Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

They also say, "The real tragedy of life is not that each of us doesn't have enough strengths, it's that we fail to use the ones we have. Benjamin Franklin called wasted Strengths "sundials  in the shade."..look  inside yourself, try to identify your strongest threads (natural talents), reinforce them with practise and learning, and then either find or carve out a role that draws on these strenghts every day. When you do, you will be more productive, more fulfilled, and more successiful.

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