Writing
Finding Your Greatest Skills Through Writing
What am I good at, anyway?
Most of us feel so painfully average. Sure, the words we bend and weave sound alright, and we may fight to the death for all of our “darlings” against the almighty editor. But when it comes to expressing our specific skills, we’ll back ourselves a wall trying to worm out of the question.
What am I good at? What skills can I offer? Uh… no comment.
Weird, huh?
But knowing what you’re at least halfway decent at could make a big difference. When we know what we do well, we can leverage those skills to our advantage.
Take, for example, someone who’s really good at creating titles for articles. It seems like an ok skill, right? Useful, but not exactly groundbreaking.
Knowing that’s a skill means they don’t have to focus on learning how to make good titles. In fact, if they don’t know they’re good at titles, they might “learn” bad habits from self-reported experts and accidentally make their skills worse.
Even better, though, they can study what they do to make good titles and teach it to others. Or, learn how to improve their already high skill and get paid to create titles for others.
