Thread 33900665

You hear that everyone is good at something. Some people get lucky and find something they're good at at like 16 and do that thing and get exceptional at it, and make a lot of money out of it and live comfortably off their talent.
And many people never discover their talent and just go with the flow and live and die never having found their genius. Just a long trod of mediocrity.
So how do I find my talent? It's unrealistic to try every single thing in existence by the off chance you find out you're exceptional at fucking basket weaving.
There must be some recipe for genius.

take salvia and write down the first idea that comes to mind

>>33900665 (OP)
Create a mind map. Ask yourself what you enjoy or have enjoyed in the past

>>33900665 (OP)
>So how do I find my talent?
Talent is a meme, just work on developing a skill you enjoy instead. For 99.99% of people inborn talent is nowhere near sufficient enough to turn into a career, it's the dedication and hard work put over years and years that pays off.

>>33900665 (OP)
When are you going to stop aiming for success and start living? It's fine being third rate.

>>33900665 (OP)
Pretty much everyone starts by being shit at everything. If you were a genetic freak, you would have figured it out by the age of 16 already.

>>33900665 (OP)
>You hear that everyone is good at something.
From where, a fucking movie? Made in Pedowood?
Sorry, but most people by definition are just average. Some people might have a predilection or disposition to a certain hobby that motivates them to work hard and built discipline. Sure some people were born with the height to be great niggerball players or the brains to become great scientists, but most people just live basic ass lives with a few hobbies to keep them sane.
Stop expecting so much from life.

read up on neural plasticity

>>33900665 (OP)
>You hear that everyone is good at something.
You may well hear it, but it isn't true. Back when universal military conscription was introduced, the governments recognized a need to quickly match draftees and the MOSs that they would be best at. So they came up with the batteries of tests that they would give their male populations, that would score them on mechanical ability, electronics aptitude, mathematical skill, leadership, elocution etc. What they expected was that this battery of 20+ tests would suss out which one or two things each person was good at. What they found out instead was that people who were really good at one thing tended to be really good at everything else as well, and people who weren't good at something tended to be poor at everything else as well. So they made the tests harder, determined to make sure that the "good test takers" couldn't bluff their way through the exams. The results of the new tests were even more pronounced than the first test.
The researchers who were working on the tests eventually figured out a way to quantify how much effect the individual test subject had on his scores, independent of his training and study on the subject, and called this effect "G" (General Intelligence) and the analytic estimate of G they called "IQ".