Every Person Born with Unique Talent
Date Added: August 29, 2008 03:19:02 PM
One of the necessary priorities in life is to get to know and understand our selves. Often the way we feel and the way we behave can seem extremely puzzling to everyone, ourselves included. We wonder why we feel unsatisfied in a life that does not seem to contain any great problems. We also wonder how we can allow some small and manageable problem grow until it begins to dominate and distort our lives. In every case, the first step along the road to a more satisfying life and a conquest of our difficulties is to take the time to reexamine who we are and what we really want out of life. Each of our lives is a unique and compelling story. Our first responsibility to ourselves is to keep the thread of the plot.
Although each person carries within their a personality and an attitude to living that is entirely unique to them, we do all from time to time face situations that have a great deal in common, and we often respond to these events in much the same way as others do. We may be unique, but we are not alone. When we come up against a complex personal problem, it can be a help to find out that others have come across a similar situation before, and have managed to surmount its obstacles. It can help to find that some feeling which is oppressing us, and which we find hard to combat, has been similarly experienced by others—and that many of them have found their own way out of this distress by methods that can help us too.
Obviously, problems that arise in this most delicate aspect of our lives, do not all respond to ready-made solutions. Nor is there a short cut to wisdom. But in looking at the difficulties that others have, and finding out how courageously many arrive at their own ways out, it is sometimes easier to get a personal problem of our own in focus, and to begin to see how we, too, can tackle the more difficult aspects of living.
Each one of us is special and we all need to feel so. One of the ways that we like to prove our special ness is by exercising a skill that is uniquely ours. Some people, however, had reached a point where they felt that there was nothing at all that they was good at, at least nothing that they or anyone else would want to take seriously.
Many of us tend to overlook our talents, and belittle our capabilities, because we find something so easy to do that it does not occur to us anyone else could find it difficult. It is only when we think about it that we realize we are especially skillful. In other words, this is one of our talents.
Making a list of skills and interests is one way to try to pinpoint where our strength may lie. But occasionally, even after making such a list, a people may feel unsatisfied when they look at it. If someone is still dissatisfied, it probably means that there is resources in him/her that are not being used, and they has not widened their experience sufficiently to find out what else they might do, and what abilities they might have. Taking up new interests and lessons in order to see if you have any ability in that direction is the obvious next course of action.
Ours is a strongly work-centered and competitive society. A woman who is a good cook may be able to start a small business cooking gourmet food for business lunches and dinner parties. Someone who is fascinated by color and has a good color sense may develop her interest by working for a decorator.
