Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
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Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
There is a difference between aptitudes and abilities. Aptitudes are part of your raw potential. To realize that potential, you need to apply and refine them.
The educational theorist David Kolb, for example, believes that one can learn by being a converger (one who is strong in the practical application of ideas, approaches learning in an unemotional fashion, and has relatively narrow interests), a diverger (one who has a strong imagination, is good at generating ideas and seeing things from different
... See moreaway from courses they would like to take in school by well-meaning parents, friends or teachers who tell them they will never get a job doing that. Real life often tells a different story.
“Making the original trip to Japan was a huge lifestyle change. I left a job that was incredibly secure and promised a lot of financial rewards if I stuck with it. But I didn’t love it. And I think that the passion I have for what I do now is ultimately going to result in the same lifestyle I had before. I’m not just teaching, I’m doing lots of
... See moreThe reason Dr. Schwartz examines family history so carefully is that he sees family background as fundamental to a person’s outlook on career.
To find your Element you may have to challenge your own beliefs about yourself.
You create your life and you can recreate it. As the psychologist George Kelly says, “No one needs to be a victim of their own biography.” Or, as Carl Jung puts it, “I am not what has happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
Many of us wish we were good at poetry or graphic design or mixology or any of a million other things, but have avoided them because our only experiences at trying to learn them were negative.
You live as we all do in two worlds.