Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

Finding your Element involves understanding the powers

My life, like yours, is a constant process of improvisation between my interests and personality on the one hand and circumstances and opportunities on the other. The one affects the other. Many of the opportunities you have in your life are generated by the energy you create around you.

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.

“The saddest thing to me,” says Dr. Brooks, “is seeing someone take the job because it pays well and then spend all that money on toys to cheer themselves up for being so miserable in their jobs. The people who are doing what they love hardly feel they’re working at all, just living.”

When you’re in your Element, your sense of time changes. If you’re doing something that you love, an hour can feel like five minutes; if you are doing something that you do not, five minutes can feel like an hour.

He suggests that there are eight different learning styles.

of the primary ways that Brian Schwartz helps his clients sort through their interests is by identifying how good they feel when embarking on them. It is critical to identify this as you try to figure out what you’re meant to do.

What we can assume is that they believe that being part of El Sistema helps their children to think differently about themselves and the world around them, and once they begin to do that, they open themselves up to an enormous range of possibilities that they would never have experienced otherwise.

Seeing what others achieve who share your passion can drive you to push the boundaries of your own work and to raise the bar of your own aspirations.