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.
They are people who have some talent, ability or skill, and yet are incapable of feeling fully fulfilled.
Personal talents: how to show them to the world?
Few personalities have existed or exist who have dared to let their innate talent be seen and who have left their mark on history: in music Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, known as 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 Despite everything, very few people have had gifts like these throughout the entire history of human beings. It is very important to keep 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 died, pen in hand, composing what would be his last work of music, a Requiem (for the funeral mass), which did not arrive. to be completed.
But does everyone have talents?
Language is polysemous, which means that the same 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. Likewise, Talent is defined as the innate ability or ability to excel in one or more specific thematic areas or activities It is also described as the ability to carry out 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 hard on them to obtain benefits.
Some talents are natural; others must be acquired through learning. There are things that we are simply incapable of doing. 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 ways to take advantage of personal talent. This proposal is only one option of many 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, knowing how to manage our emotional intelligence and direct 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 some types of intelligence more or less developed. 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 especially stand out.
How do we relate to our environment?
We make contact with the world through the five senses, we make “sense” of the information and we act accordingly. Afterwards, 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 our senses externally to perceive the world, internally to represent the experience to ourselves
Perception, neurons… talent from the magnifying glass of neuroscience
The neurons that make up the chemical storm of the brain are interconnected and exchange information between them, the environment influences us to learn and thinking influences us in the way neurons are connected. In this amazing influence that we currently know thanks to neuroscience, we need to use our connectome to acquire new skills or to further develop those we already 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 intertwining of cables inside our brain Connectome is how neuroscientist Sebastian Seung describes it, that is, the way in which the 100 billion neurons that constitute it communicate and influence the brain and can achieve the overwhelming number of one billion different connections. So our experiences can change the connectome. The countless number of connections makes us materially unique people. That’s why Seung says: “you are your connectome.”
If we harbor deep-rooted behaviors, even negative ones that we believe we cannot change, it is true, because we repeat the same connectome with our thinking, with positive positive behaviors we do the same but we direct our learning to achieve more options, solutions and goals.
Are we all intelligent?
The history of intelligence dates back to the beginning of the last century, in which as psychologists we oriented ourselves to take measurements of all behavior. The intellectual quotient (IQ) was derived from these studies and the intelligence tests that measured it included different areas to find out what our intelligence was through a series of detailed statistics. They divided people into average intelligence or above or below average This often gave rise to someone evaluated in this way acquiring a label that could carry with them their entire life, which is false since we can all develop skills or abilities outside the context of this evaluation.
We do not only have a single computer in our heads as the human connectome demonstrates, that is, there is not a single type of intelligence but several, some apparently well identified and others yet to be developed. Howard Gardner states that Intelligence is the ability to put order in thoughts and coordinate them with actions There are different types of intelligence that mark the potentialities with characteristic accents of each individual, in strengths and weaknesses.
Each person has different intelligences (visual-spatial, verbal or linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-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 skill or capacity, the challenge is to know ourselves 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. What’s more, 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 that influences us is how we manage our emotions or Emotional Intelligence (EI).
Is it enough to know our hidden intelligence or do we also need emotional intelligence?
Having talents and abilities is not enough to achieve success, and if we achieve it, 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 become a beast, in a dynamic called emotional kidnapping.
Negative emotions block learning and prevent you from developing talents If they persist longer than advisable, they even reduce your state of health. This principle is proven by the neuroendocrinoimmunology
Intelligence may not have 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 dull they create apathy and distance; When they are uncontrolled, extreme and persistent, they become pathological. The mechanisms to balance emotions; control impulsivity, enthusiasm, empathy, perseverance despite frustration, deferring gratification and the ability to self-motivate, since someone is not always 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 of neuronal routes once it is established becomes a habit of life. There are those who will not make it and will only complain, they are stuck in the conflict (Frame of disapproval). These people could use the saying: “genius and figure until the grave”, as a form of sarcasm, it is clear.
Giving up what we are leaves us without identity, without developing skills or talents, it leaves us without the possibility of feeling self-fulfilled, we will not discover them if we are not bold. Given this perspective, we will not get anywhere 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 put down more than 30 small tips for this purpose throughout the following paragraphs. We hope it helps you.
In conclusion…
Developing your talents is not a one-day thing, you need to be constant in order to achieve the goals you have set for yourself. If you want to get to where you have only been, do what you have never done. It is very important to meet with people with whom you share interests. Get social and gather all the support you can!
Some more tips to enhance our talents
“There is only a small part of the universe that you will know for sure can be improved, and that part is you.”
