same spot

If you don't use your talent, you're on the same spot forever.

- David Shen

Talent

Talent is a necessity.

- David Shen

envy vs. talent

A lot of time, you know exactly what your talent is yet you envy other people's talent. You go into a career that is part of your envy but not part of your talent. This happens to a lot of people I know and the result is not pretty.

- David Shen

search for the talent

When you're young, everything is fun. It's fun to search for your talents. When you're old, everything is work. It's no longer fun to search for your talents. The truth is no matter how old you are, your talents are always waiting for you.

- David Shen

talent vs. time

Talent doesn't diminish over time but your curiosity to search for your talent does.

- David Shen

talent vs. emotion

Have you ever notice that if you play with something that you have talent with, you seem to calm down and everything goes smoothly. If you play with something that you don't have talent with, your emotion seems to go up and down and there's no sense of fulfillment.

- David Shen

good vs. great

I always thought that I want to be good at everything. Then, I realize I am a mediocre at everything. Now, I change my mind. I want to be great at one thing. I'll find other people who are great at other things.

- David Shen

money vs. talent

If you follow the money but not the talent in your career, it might work in the short run. In the long run, it's going to not going any where.

- David Shen

Talents?

Do you have talents? Of course you do. You just need to find it.

- David Shen

Car

The other day, I tried to figure out a car problem. It took me 2 days to figure out exactly what's going on. My wife came into the garage and took a look at the car problem and resolve it in 5 minutes. I was shocked. I start to realize that car is my interest but not my talent. I can still spend some time playing with car but I will need to find my talent some where else.

- David Shen

Talk show host

I like radio talk show. When I was young, I was determined to be a radio talk show host. One day, I realize that I enjoy listening to the radio talk show but it's not easy for me to just talk to a microphone.

What's the talent for any field?

If that person can just try out a field and become a natural in the 1st 5 minutes, then this person has the talent.

- David Shen

Talent

Each field has its talent.

If you have the talent, you'll play well in this field.

- David Shen

time vs talent

Others spend a life time but it takes you only a minute to achieve the same result. This is talent.

- David Shen

environment vs. talent

Your talent is always within yourself. It shines or hides depend on your environment.

The environment includes
1. the people you associate with
2. the career/hobby you currently have

- David Shen

2 choices

You have 2 choices.

1. Find your talents.
2. Go with the flow.

You know the consequences.

- David Shen

Part of you

Don't ignore your talent because it's part of you.

- David Shen

Make them shine

Your talents already show up when you're 2 years old. Your goal in life is to make them shine.

- David Shen

Talent and result

The fastest way to get result with your talent is to find mentors and partners. Your mentors show you the rope and your partner compliments your talents.

- David Shen

part time

If you aren't sure if your talent can support your family, you can always work part time.

- David Shen

Goal vs. talent

The sooner you find your talent, the sooner you reach your goal.

- David Shen

The precious gifts

We all have angels. When we were born, our angels give us gifts called talents. Our life time goals are to find and use those precious talents.

- David Shen

Big achiever and you

If you believe that only the big achievers have talents, you're WRONG.

The only difference between you and them is they found their talents.

- David Shen

Life goal vs. talent

What's the major difference between people who have achieve their goal in life and people who haven't?

They found their talent.

- David Shen

class vs. talent

If I have an opportunity to go back to college again and choose between 2 classes:

Class A: It's no brainer class. Piece of cake
Class B: It's a hard course. I think I can learn a lot from this course.

I would take class A any times.... If it's part of your talent, all classes are pieces of cakes. If it's not part of your talent, it doesn't matter if you try your best. The result is mostly likely zilch.

- David Shen

The rule of hard work

Hard work pays off in the short term.

In the long term, you got to have talents.

- David Shen

time vs. your talent

If you don't have the talent in a particular field, you result is minimum even if you put in 10 years of your life time.

- David Shen

my wish vs my talent

I always wish my talent is in computer programming.
Then, one day, I wake up and realize my talent is some where else.

- David Shen

time vs. your talent

What doesn't change over time?

your talent

- David Shen

benefit for your love ones

If you know your talent can create immense value for your love ones and others, would you consider searching for it?

- David Shen

don't ignore your talent

Your talent doesn't diminish
but your ignorance of your talent will.

- David Shen

The talent and you

You might not know it.

Your talent is obvious when you're 3 years old.
Your talent is obvious when you're 18 years old.
Your talent is still obvious when you're 81 years old.

- David Shen

Not a good idea

You might think it's ok to not find your talent. Just go with the flow.

I can tell you this. It's a bad idea.

- David Shen

the people with talents

In each field, there are people with talents.
We call them, leaders.

- David Shen

Drive a car

Interest and talent are like driving a car.

If you have the talent, you drive 200 miles per hour.
If you have the interest, you drive this car for the next 60 years.

If you don't have the talent, you drive 0.000001 mile per hour.
If you don't have the interest, you drive this car for the next 60 seconds.

- David Shen

inside vs. outside

If you look inside, you see your talent.
If you look outside at other's talent, you tend to forget about your own unique ability.

- David Shen

age vs. talent

If a person has talent, it doesn't matter if he's 12 years old boy or 72 years old man. He can still produce the same outstanding result.

- David Shen

experience vs. talent

Your 10 years of experiences with this career don't mean much if you don't have the talent.

- David Shen

Hint not to continue

You know that you don't have talent when

1. you see the result.
2. you feels frustrated every time when you do it.
3. you can feel the resistance every time you do it.

- David Shen

Find your talent

You don't improve your ability.
You find your ability.

- David Shen

History vs. talent

Your history provides a trail of what your talent is.

- David Shen

Going through life

If you think that you can go through life without using your talent...

Think again

- David Shen

Career vs. talent

It's very easy to see if you have talents.

Just look at the result.

- David Shen

Life goal

What is your goal in life?

It's most likely that you got to use your talents to achieve this goal.

- David Shen

Amazing place

If all of us use our talents, the world would be an amazing place.

- David Shen

Doesn't change

The thing that doesn't change in your life time is

your talent

- David Shen

Talent

Will talent bring you happiness? not necessarily
Will talent bring value to your love ones? definitely

- David Shen

Move on

If you spend 5 minutes on a career and it doesn't click, move on. If you spend 5 minutes talking to a person and you still couldn't figure out what's going on, move on.
The only exception to this rule is: When it's critical (e.g. the doctor will determine the fate of your love ones.), you got to change your pattern any way you can.

- David Shen

To use talent forever

Once you figure out your talent, you got to pay attention on 3 things to continue with this talent:
- the people that you associate with
- the career that you have talent with
- the thing that you use every day with

- David Shen

Find one

You have multiple talents.
Please find out at least one in your life time.

- David Shen

Environment

It's not enough to find the talents. I got to find the people who can help me to provide values to my love one and others.

- David Shen

Know when to cut

You need to spend 100% of your time on the most important thing in your life, yet other people's agenda which is different from yours impacts you deeply. If you can, keep a good distance from that person.

- David Shen

Talent vs. History

Your history provides you a trail of what your talent is.
Don't ignore your history.

- David Shen

Envy vs. talent

If you are envious about other's ability, you probably don't have this talent.
The truth is if you have this talent, you know exactly what's going on.

- David Shen

Fulfill your dream

How much you fulfill your dream depends on how you use your talent.

Warren Buffet did it.
Bill Gates did it.

- David Shen

The solution to find talent

If you want to find out your talent, go through your history.
What happen in each grade?
What event do you handle easily?

If you want to find out your talent, find out your hero.
Find the ones who provide immense value to others and
has similar pattern to yours.

- David Shen