If you want to know yourself better, here are 20 questions you can ask yourself. 

They are representative, not exhaustive.

There are many more questions but this is a blog post! 

Learn your strengths and weakness in all areas but focus on your strengths.

YOUR GIFTS AND TALENTS

Your gifts, attributes, loves, talents, and strengths are evident in early childhood. They may not have been recognized appropriately but they were evident to observant people. If your gifts and talents have been missed, they are dormant. They are still there, but you have to identify them before you can do anything with them. Abilities and talents are like muscles, they atrophy if they are not used.

Did your abilities get developed or do they still need to be? Your gifts and talents are a given. You have them when you are born. Whether they develop or not is a function of the family, society, education, and training that allows you to develop skills and abilities in the areas of your talents and gifts. The inherent ability is there to play the flute but you have to study it and practice in order to develop that talent. Everyone is creative but if that creativity is squashed and not nourished, it will atrophy.

Millions of people take up sports and the arts when they retire. Things they always wanted to do but never could because of life’s limitations. Some of  these things could have been life works but not if they were never acknowledged or trained. 

Creativity also gets thwarted because people don’t recognize it outside the customary boundaries. Everyone acknowledges that the arts are creative but most people don’t recognize or other fields as being creative.

BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE CREATIVE TOO

You rarely hear of businessmen being praised for being creative yet good business people must be creative all the time in order to survive, never mind thrive. Years ago intelligence meant simply IQ (intelligence quotient) and it meant intellectual ability only, that is, essentially traditional ‘school smarts.’ But there are many more kinds of intelligence.

Psychologist Gardner, in his book Multiple Intelligences, has identified nine types ranging from musical and logical-mathematical to spatial and interpersonal. Refer to his work on the net and see where more of your unidentified or unrecognized talents lie.

People are usually much better at saying what they are not good at than what they are good at. I’m asking you to be excellent at recognizing what you are good at! It’s also sometimes easier to figure out what you are not than what you are. And it may be easier to determine what you don’t want than what you do. It might even be that you don’t know what you are until you know what you are not. It might be that you won’t know what you want until you know what you don’t want.

This is helpful only to a limited degree.

If, for example, I ask you what countries you do not want to visit and you name 10 or 20 you still have not learned anything much about which countries you would like to visit. Still, it can be a useful exercise.

You might say you don’t want to visit a country with a cold climate which suggests you prefer warm or temperate ones. It narrows the field somewhat.

We can come at the problem of determining what we want and are good at by asking and answering questions from both the positive and the negative sides. 

Please be free, creative, and truthful in this exercise.

There are only 19 questions but the information you get will be extremely helpful to you. And you will immediately see what other kinds of questions will present themeless to you

I can help you with that.

Be specific in all your answers. Let’s start at the beginning, in childhood.

We’ll take sports and the arts to start.

1.What did you love to do? 

2.What games did you like to play? 

3. Did you like playing with friends? 

4. Playing alone?

5. Did you like sports or not? 

6. Were you good at them or not? 

7. Which sports did you play? 

8. Which ones did you play well?
9. Which ones did you love even though you may not have excelled at them? 

10. Why did you like them?

11. Did you like Reading?

12 What arts did you like and explore?

13. Art? (Painting, drawing sculpting)? 

14. Acting? 

15. Dancing? 

16. Other arts? 

17. Were you good at them or not? 

18. Which ones did you love even though you may not have excelled at them? 

19. Why did you like them?

20. What question would you ask of yourself? 

These questions are the tip of the iceberg.

To find out more about yourself and your talents, gifts and abilities and how you can develop them and use them in your life, come to Self-Knowledge College.

It’s the beginning of your education of your real self.

I’ll have a course soon called  Secrets of Success Through Self-Knowledge.

If you would like to be on the advance information list, just email me daleyfrank0@gmail.com

 You’ll learn more than you ever thought possible about you!

-Frank