It's often said that everyone is talented at something, but the truth is that many people struggle with the issue of finding what they're truly good at and enjoy, especially in terms of choosing a career. It's also easy to get caught up in the expectation that if you have a talent that it should, by default, be something that comes to you naturally with little effort or need to practice. Often this is far from the truth.
Instructions
1. Remember your childhood. Your talents might actually be those things you enjoyed doing when you were a kid and weren't so caught up in what other people thought about it. If you enjoyed drawing as a child, consider taking it up again. If you enjoyed building with blocks, maybe you would enjoy converting this into a grown-up hobby of woodworking.
2. Take a quiz. Many online quizzes exist that will ask you a series of focused questions in the attempt to hone in suggestions of your interests and talents, often with regard to choosing a profession. Try taking a few of these and see what you think about the suggestions.
3. Try different things that you find interesting. It could be that you are amazingly talented at something you never even considered trying before. If you have always wanted to ride horses or play piano, try a sample lesson and see how it goes. You are never too old to try something new.
4. Practice those activities that you think you enjoy and want to be better at. In some cases, talent may be something you are born with, but it is probably even more common that talent is acquired over time with increased experience and practice. Someone who appears to be a talented pianist, for example, probably was not born with the ability to lay her hands on the piano and play beautiful music. More likely, she became a talented pianist by being determined enough to put in painstaking years of playing drills, practicing fingering technique and learning performance strategies with the help of a piano teacher.
