Uncover Your Talents

Hightower
There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. ~Jim Hightower

Michelangelo
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. ~Michelangelo

Denise Shekerjian
The trick to creativity, if there is a single useful thing to say about it, is to identify your own peculiar talent and then settle down to work with it for a good long time. The trick is to recognize it, to honor it, to work with it. This is where creativity starts . . . the cultivation of aptitude, far more than coincidence or inspiration, is responsible for most creative breakthroughs. ~Denise Shekerjian

Picasso
“My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” ~Pablo Picasso

What Are My Talents?
What are my talents? What makes me good at some things and terrible at other things? Nature and Nurture both play a role. We aren’t born as blank slates, as conventionally thought. We each have a set of pre-existing hardwired aptitudes or “natural talents.” Although we have a capacity to learn knowledge from our culture […]