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You've got more skills than you realize.
Here's how to identify them.
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Here's how to identify them.
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STEP 1: Pick one skill you know you have.
It can be something you do for a living or as a hobby, something you studied or people tell you you’re good at.
Ideally, it’s a skill you’re passionate about or at least enjoy using, but it doesn’t have to be.
It can be something you do for a living or as a hobby, something you studied or people tell you you’re good at.
Ideally, it’s a skill you’re passionate about or at least enjoy using, but it doesn’t have to be.
The skill you choose will be a compass for the hidden skills you’re about to unearth.
So choose something likely to lead you down a path you’d want to go.
So choose something likely to lead you down a path you’d want to go.
STEP 2: Identify three component skills.
Every skill you have is a compilation of other skills.
This means when you identify an existing skill you have as you did in step one, by definition you’ve also identified a series of related skills within it.
Every skill you have is a compilation of other skills.
This means when you identify an existing skill you have as you did in step one, by definition you’ve also identified a series of related skills within it.
For example, let’s say your main skill is you’re a good writer.
If you’re able to write well, you probably have the following related skills:
* The ability to generate ideas
* The ability to communicate
* The ability to capture and hold people’s attention
If you’re able to write well, you probably have the following related skills:
* The ability to generate ideas
* The ability to communicate
* The ability to capture and hold people’s attention
You’ve just gone from the one skill you know you have to discovering you actually have four distinct skills.
See how that works?
Now, let's dig deeper...
See how that works?
Now, let's dig deeper...
STEP 3: Repeat the exercise for each component skill.
Follow this simple format:
If I have the ability to [Insert Component Skill], then I must also have the ability to [Insert Sub-Component Skill #1], [Insert Sub-Component Skill #2], and [Insert Sub-Component Skill #3].
Follow this simple format:
If I have the ability to [Insert Component Skill], then I must also have the ability to [Insert Sub-Component Skill #1], [Insert Sub-Component Skill #2], and [Insert Sub-Component Skill #3].
In our writer’s example, it might look like this:
* If I have the ability to generate ideas, then I also have the ability to create things, solve problems, and innovate.
Or...
* If I have the ability to communicate, then I also have the ability to teach, lead, and influence.
* If I have the ability to generate ideas, then I also have the ability to create things, solve problems, and innovate.
Or...
* If I have the ability to communicate, then I also have the ability to teach, lead, and influence.
STEP 4: Put your skills in a list.
You've not identified at least 12 "hidden" skills you have.
You’ll notice the list above is focused on skills and not jobs — that’s intentional.
You've not identified at least 12 "hidden" skills you have.
You’ll notice the list above is focused on skills and not jobs — that’s intentional.
It’s fine to list jobs/professions if you’d like, but the goal of the exercise is to separate what you’re able to do from the professions that may value those skills.
Doing so broadens your thinking about what you may be able to do in your career or work moving forward.
Doing so broadens your thinking about what you may be able to do in your career or work moving forward.
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