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Everything worth your time on the question: What am I actually good at?

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What am I actually good at: talk it through

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Evidence of Strength

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Name one thing you think you are unusually good at, then make the case for it using occasions rather than adjectives.

Names a claimed strength and asks for the occasions that prove it.

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Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Best for working out which of your attention actually returns something.

The original work behind absorbed attention: the conditions are a clear task, immediate feedback and difficulty roughly matched to skill. Useful here as a discriminator. Attention that absorbs you and attention that merely holds you feel similar in the moment and leave you in completely different states afterwards.

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