I don’t consider myself having any talent, I recently noticed I might like Arts but I’m not even good at it.
Is it possible for someone to not have any talent or skill they’re really good at?
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You have to know that everyone with a talent worked for it. The only reason you don’t have talents is that you haven’t worked for them.
No one just “possesses” talents, like it’s a watch or a cell phone, something they could buy, receive as a gift, or keep in their pocket.
People gain talents through practice, and if they stop practicing, they can lose them.
I can draw, for example, and today it may appear that I just “possess” that talent. But I can draw because I spent hundreds of hours during my childhood drawing. If I don’t draw for a long time, I’m not as good when I come back to it.
It’s also never to late to develop a talent, but the key is always to put in the work. I learned to play the guitar at 29 years old, and I did it by practicing, for hundreds of hours.
Some talents take a long time to develop. I learned to write and research over decades of doing it. My first papers were, to put it mildly, very bad. Now I think I write well. But as with everything I do, I always work to get better. People who are good at things never did what you’re doing to yourself: they never told themselves they were not good at something, they told themselves they weren’t good at it yet.
With practice, you can have any talent you want. You’re being too hard on yourself. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.
What do you want to be? An artist? A scientist? A musician? Whatever it is, go work at it. Just because you can’t do something now doesn’t mean you won’t be able to do it later. That’s what learning is. Go draw a shitty picture, but don’t say “I’m a bad artist” because you drew a bad picture. Instead, draw another one, and you’ll see, it will be better. Draw more after that, and they’ll get better too. Read books about how to draw, take lessons, get tips from pros.
If you only draw one picture, see that it’s really bad, and then tell yourself you suck and quit, you will always suck. If you draw another and try to do better, you will do better. Keep doing that over and over, and eventually you’ll have find you just have a hand that works.
No skills are inborn, and there are no shortcuts to getting a new skill. Every person with a talent paid for that talent with time. No one is good at anything until they practice.
If you want a talent, stop telling yourself that you don’t have any talents; tell yourself that you don’t have any talents yet, then go put the work in to get one.
First, recognize that your worth is not dependent on your abilities.
Second, decide what you enjoy the most, whether you are good at it or not.
Third, try to learn as much as you can about the thing you enjoy doing. Find out if there are ways of incorporating it into a career.
Fourth, find out what steps are necessary for building competence and being allowed to work in your chosen field. Make a plan.
Fifth, develop a growth mindset. Understand that even if you aren’t a natural at something, you can use failures to learn, and you can end up developing skills over time through practice that may exceed the skills of someone who had a natural talent that they took for granted and failed to nurture. If you think of skills as things you can develop, you will likely do better than someone who thinks skills are inherent and unchangeable, because when you fail, you will keep trying instead of just hating yourself for being untalented. You will take creative risks without the fear of losing your status as one of the naturally competent ones, and those risks will help you learn even more.
You are in the rare position of having a wide range of choices. Most people get stuck trying to pursue a career in the one thing they are good at, or worse, end up doing something else while pining to do the thing they would actually be good at. You, on the other hand, have total freedom! Do something great with it, or at least go down trying!