“Are You Wasting Your Talents?”

Talents are like people, they come in various shapes and sizes. There are karaoke singers and Grammy award winning performers, amateur sportsmen and Olympic athletes, scientists who fiddle about with insects and those who invent life-saving vaccines… Everyone who has a purpose has been given talent, each to an appropriate measure.

TYPES OF TALENTS

Talents, like humans, carry their own baggage manifesting in the following 4 ways:

Type -A- Talents:- These are known to self and others. This is the ideal. Bill Cosby knows he can act. We know this too because we’ve seen him on The Cosby show for years. Think what the world would be like if every hidden talent was brought to light and utilised. We would have fewer problems because more people would bring effective solutions to the table. A lot of half baked ideas are celebrated today because people with better ideas are not confident enough to share them. Sad isn’t it?

Type –B- Talents:- These are known to self but hidden from others. You may be aware of your skills but if they are under-developed and unused others will know absolutely nothing about them. Although your talents are a gift to you they ought to be shared as, one way or the other, you too have benefited from the talents of others.

I once knew a writer who wrote stories only for her own pleasure. She guarded her notebook jealously and wouldn’t let family or friends have a look. I respected her privacy of course but couldn’t help wondering if there was someone out there whose life could be touched by the message she withheld. If scientists invented medicines for their personal use alone, half the world’s population would be dead.

Type –C- Talents:- These are hidden from us but known to others. With a bit of constructive feedback and encouragement, we can begin to explore talents like these.

Type –D- Talents:- The worst of the bunch are talents and abilities that are hidden from both self and others. Double tragedy talents, I call them!

Are you a business owner or manager of an organisation? How much time and money are you losing everyday because of the abundance of undiscovered and undeveloped talents in your domain? How much are you losing by the hour due to short term absences and an uninspired workforce? Could you benefit from creating a work environment or social community that encourages creativity and innovation?

The core purpose of the work I do through book publishing, public speaking and consulting is to help individuals, businesses and communities boost productivity by discovering, developing and harnessing talents more effectively.

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Ogo Ogbata is the author of the inspirational book titled ‘Creativity and Sense: Discover Purpose, Inspire Your Team and Turn Passion into Prosperity!’