Discovering Your Talents

~ Gottfried

I have a lot of hidden talents. The problem is I can’t find them. On some days I like to think that it takes real skill to choke on air, miss-step while climbing stairs and trip over absolutely nothing. Not everyone is able to pull this off.  It’s worse when you’re with a group of people and everyone is talking about their skills and talents, and you’re there like; well, I can breathe.

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Multitalented. I can talk, annoy and irritate you all at the same time. It takes real dedication to pull this off. On a real though, talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity but we use it all the same. Isn’t it curious that we all have that one friend that finds a way of making everything innocent perverted? Yes you, I’m talking to you!

Lecturer: How can you fiddle with your phone and still manage to pay attention to what I’m saying?

Gottfried: Pure unadulterated talent, Sir.

Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one. Imagine finding out your talent as an 80-year-old man because you’ve been so immersed in poverty all your life, you never had the opportunity to look up. I’d be pissed if I discovered I could have won an Olympic medal for hopscotch. The pain!

Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. That fart you’ve been holding onto the entire ride? Drop it! Who knows, you could make it to 9’oclock news. I can already picture it. The headline will read, ‘Legendary fart kills 30 on a bus, maims two”. Authorities say the FARTER is still at large, armed, and very dangerous!’.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. I once met a beautiful lady at a park. I told her I wasn’t good at anything. She looked me in the eye and said, ‘survival is a talent’. I agree!

Sometimes you don’t get the talents you really need. Great, you just discovered you can chew ice. What are you supposed to do with that kind of talent? God really skipped artistry, creativity, athletics, and handed you the ability to chew ice cones. And you think all is well? Some people have the odd talent of making the most simple things sound complicated. Marry them!

No one respects a talent that is concealed. You might want to shove it in people’s faces every now and then. Because the truth is, everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work. But make no mistake, never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you one of your 9 lives. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story. The human tragedy is that we all want to be extraordinary and we all just want to fit in. Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in. That being said, if you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room…

find another room.

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724 thoughts on “Discovering Your Talents”

  1. Is a thing to have talent, is another thing to discover The talent and is another thing to know how to use the talent…

    So many people came to this world and back to there grave without discovering or utilitizing there talent…

    So it takes a lot of psychological intervention…..

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  4. 😝😝😂😂 till this moment in my life, I am trying to find my hhiiddenn talents. Oh, they are wayy tooo deep. I think 2 3 lifes I will need to figure it out. O man, every morning I wake up asking myself what is the exact talent I possess. And every night I ask God to reply me in my dreams at the least. I lovvedd your post

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          7. Yes, you are a good writer and have a good critical mind when you use it 🙂 which is why I keep reading you! Smart guy and the humor works really well. I write humor a lot. A mentor of mine once said that only smart people understand humor. I took it as a compliment and have noticed the same thing so pass the compliment on to you. Do you have a real job? Or do you write full time??

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          11. Hm, I have a nephew who is a great writer who is essentially doing that. He was sort of free-lancing. Now he does it for ATT I think. Gets to work from home. So you write copy essentially? Sort of managing a brand? I never really got what he was doing??

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          12. Haha, sometimes it’s difficult explaining the job. You’re doing copy, creating content, managing the brand. The client that pays the most money gets the most attention basically. 😂

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  5. Loved this. I have crashed things in land, sea and air. A car, a sailing boat, a glider and a motorbike to be precise. I tried to save my best pal from a cow and landed her upside down in a ditch with bruises from head to toe. The cow nearly died laughing. I was also attacked by a nest of wood ants whilst hiding during an army exercise and gave our position away by screaming. Turns out my talent is disaster. 🙂

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          3. However, I must be honest, I also discovered that I have another talent: the mental connection! is fantastic! I don’t use the phone anymore !!!! 😀 😀 😀

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  10. I watched a video last night… maybe a TED talk… and your post reminded me of a thought I had during it. The speaker was talking about how everybody learns differently and if a kid is bad at math but good at English, you shouldn’t try to force them to study math harder but to embrace their talent for English. Well… sure… okay… but there is far from a 1:1 ratio between careers that utilize literacy and careers that rely on mathematics!

    That’s what your thoughts on talent made me think about, anyway. Cheers, good post.

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