Top 20 Ways to Identify Hidden Skill Set
Each and every individual in this world is different from one another and not just in appearances, but also in their skills and abilities. Every single individual is gifted with a skill set. However, the majority of people never have the opportunity to explore their possessed hidden skill sets.
20 Ways How to Identify Your Hidden Skills and Utilize Them
Most of the people do not bother to discover their possessed talent. Exploring and understanding hidden talents isn’t much of a difficult task, it only requires time, effort and patience.
Following the guidelines, you can also identify your possessed hidden talents:
1- Say No To Negative & Over-Thinking
Negative or overthinking is what ruins one's mental peace and sanity. It stops a person from being creative or productive or even alive. Because of negative and overthinking, people tend to underestimate and become uncertain of their own selves. By halting negative and overthinking, you can easily and comfortably determine your hidden talents.
2- Keep An Open Mind
Keeping an open mind allows you to think clearly and lets you achieve goals that you wanted to achieve forever. Open-mindedness unlocks up a whole lot of opportunities in life, assisting in determining hidden skill sets.
3- Reconsider The Past
Rethink and reminisce over your past. The past is the best teacher one can have as it teaches what can’t be learned from anywhere. Going over the past can help in identifying hidden talents.
4- Find What Brings You Joy
Find what makes you happy. The things that make you happy might also be your special hidden talent but you never realized. Determine what activity brings peace to you and turn it into your strength by uncovering it as a special talent.
5- Celebrate Tiniest Victory
Success big or small is a success. And success should be celebrated with enthusiasm and zeal. Rejoicing tiniest victories can lead to recognizing hidden talents. The smallest of success when achieved over and over again is realized as a special talent.
6- Assess Failures
Failures are like best friends. Never take failure as a setback. Instead consider them a friend who never lies and tells you honestly about your qualities you are good in and what actions you shouldn’t repeat. After failing, evaluate the reason for failure and the lesson learned from it. By doing this you’ll know if you loved doing or lack of interest leads to failure.
7- Keep a Journal
Keep thoughts flowing and collect them in a journal. Writing is the best self-assessment. Writing helps keep thoughts on track and also motivates them. By writing your thoughts you’ll realize that a lot of your thoughts circle back to one main thought. By writing you can maintain your personal space and openly share all of your secrets with yourself and come back to them later. Writing helps in realizing and determining hidden special skills.
8- Experience Life
Travelling, especially solo, lets you experience raw life to its fullest. While traveling you are meeting with countless opportunities and possibilities. Meet new people, observe different cultures, and experience new cuisines and get to see natural exotic sights. While traveling you also endeavor new challenges, struggles and inspirations. Traveling leaves a long-lasting impact on the human mind, body and soul and changes a person’s entire life and perspective of life.
9- Ask Friends To Highlight Your Best & Worst Qualities
Real friends are those who are brutally honest and guide you by highlighting both your positive as well as negative sides and assists in improving them. Everyone sees you differently. Use your friends’ perspective of you or ask people in your surrounding about yourself and use their perspective to work on yourself and make yourself better. This way when good qualities are highlighted you get to know your special hidden gift.
10- Introspection
In today’s fast-paced, globalized and technologically advanced times people forget to look at their selves. Spending time with oneself is important. To know yourself, spend some time with yourself. Go for a walk or have a coffee alone. Rummaging through old memories and mind and asking questions from oneself helps in understanding your own self and allows you to recognize your hidden strengths.
Introspection is a quality we all have but lack due to our obsession with distractions has reduced our skill to scrutinize ourselves of a difficult task, it only requires time, effort and patience.
11- Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Burst out of your bubble and step outside of your comfort zone. By stepping outside the comfort zone you get to truly test your strengths, improve abilities and find purpose. Be it the nourishment of mind or transition into a new career with new skills, one needs to gather up all energy and confidently taking new risks and resisting fear. This allows you to see and recognize your hidden talents.
12- Find A Mentor
At times, one needs expert advice and guidance. Mentors help with seeing the ground reality by providing counsel and guidance. A mentor not only guides but also helps face the cruelties and hardships of the world, guiding what to do and what not to do.
13- Take a Personality Test
Personality tests aren’t one size fits all. They are mere tools to explain complex personality patterns in n easy way. Myers — Briggs Type Indicator is one of the popular personality testing tools. When a certain category of personality type is determined, strengths and weaknesses can easily be traced and can be used to your advantage.
14- Embrace The Change
With time everything changes. Change can either be constructive or destructive, depending on how it is acknowledged. With age your taste change, strengths grow. Basically, you change. Don’t tell yourself you can’t be the same again. This way you won’t be giving yourself a chance to explore hidden talents. Let go of the preconceived notions and truly and honestly absorb the world around you. The openness and embracement will lead you to countless opportunities and possibilities.
15- Respect Your Decisions
As Dumbledore said, “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Respect your decisions and choices. Have no regrets after making a decision or choice because at that moment when making the decision or choice you felt peace. Stand by your choices and decisions as they describe who you are. Also disrespecting personal choices and decisions lead to a lack of confidence and inferiority complex.
16- Love What You Do
Do what you love and love what you do. You might be a master of skill and still lack interest in that skill. Do the things you love and love the things that are done by you. This way you’ll be making yourself happy and hence giving your best. Loving a gifted talent makes it unique.
17- Turn Your Hobby Into Your Profession
Making your hobby into profession makes it easy to explore hidden talents as you get to work in a comfortable area hence exploring becomes easy and greatness is achieved.
18- Make Honest Efforts
No straight path or shortcut can lead to finding a hidden talent. Give your 100% to achieve outstanding results. Honest efforts result in success even when natural skills aren’t much polished.
19- Look For Talent In Others
Inspiration leads to aspiration. At times acknowledging others for their talents makes you realize your own talents. Ask them to be your mentors, giving you advice and having chat over coffee. Reaching out and recognizing talent in others helps build connections and opens up tons of new opportunities.
20- Remember Gratitude
Always be thankful and show gratitude. When people are thanked, it means they have helped in one way or another. Gratitude makes you and others around you happy. It helps people connect to something bigger than them. Acknowledges goodness within themselves. This might seem like a small thing but is talent. Not always let your talents be in service for others, use them for yourself. Give yourself, so that your ability to give to others also grows.
