Talent: Refers to a person’s natural aptitude or skills: This means being good at something without any training.
Figure out what you are good at, think about what it is that you love to do most when you have free time. If you are drawn towards it, it’s a natural talent. Ask everyone you know especially your friends, classmates and family, to give you an honest assessment about what they think you love or is your talent.
Passion: Is an intense desire or enthusiasm for something.
It can be characterized as a strong feeling of love towards an activity which you enjoy and love doing. You can have more than one passion.
Using the following scenarios:
If you love and enjoy helping sick people then you could be a great nurse, doctor or psychologist or anything that is linked to health professions.
If you love putting stuff together or fixing broken materials, driving and coming up with absolute great innovations then you could be a great engineer, architect, and mechanic, pilot, the list goes on.
If you love helping and teaching others with their academic work then you could be a teacher, lecturer, professor.
The intense love for singing, recording or drawing may be an indication that you would become a future musician, DJ or anything related to Arts.
The desire to defend, provide advice, object and critically analyze views could lead into law, mediator, legal adviser or practitioner.
And lastly if you enjoy being in charge, leading, selling items it could be food, snacks or anything that is hand-made or crafted may be a sign that you will be an entrepreneur, industry leader or manager.
Monetization of your passion: This is fundamentally a step on how to turn your passion into profit, to make money while doing something you love. Start exploring and engaging in activities you are passionate about, participate in sports as they might assist you in finding your hidden talent or passion. Identify a problem which your passion or business is solving, come up with a name and a slogan/tag line for your business, select your target market and carry out a market research, test your product/service through offering free samples for evaluation purposes, do research about existing business who are doing a similar business as yours, learn and differentiate.
Determine your costs whether it is the time you will spend to create it, the resources that you will need especially if you will need materials to create your product and different specialists to assist you move forward, see how much money you will need to invest in order to get started and set your price, lastly promote your product/service and make sales from your clients.
Questions:
1. What makes your heart sing?
2. What is that one activity you would do even if there no monetary reward?
3. What do you spend most of your time in?
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