Stuck in a Rut, Given Talent TM

What is a Given Talent?

A Given Talent is something that is totally unique to you. Everybody has a Given Talent. You do it everywhere and everyday effortlessly. It gives you tremendous energy when you use your Given Talent. Knowing your Given Talent is the key to finding lifelong career happiness.

Below are some examples of a few real life Given Talents as well as what they are doing with it. These were uncovered using our Career, Home and Happiness Connector. You will quickly notice how a Given Talent is much different than an acronym produced by a canned personality test. We have kept our clients names anonymous for confidentiality, using random initials for their names.

Students

S.C. is someone who:

Enters a group and instinctively senses which individuals are lacking energy
Watches them display their energy and identifies with them
Offers her trust to them
If they don’t accept her trust, then she offers even more trust to them
She continues to watch their energy, looking to see if there is improvement
If they accept the trust and react in a positive predictable manner, she continues to foster the relationship
Once the person she is helping establishes self-sufficiency and independence, she moves on to help elsewhere

S.C. is about to graduate from college to become a nurse in a rehabilitation center. She has volunteered during her summers at a local AIDS shelter.

R.O. is someone who:

When he first encounters a problem, he logically and instantly slices the problem into small pieces
If he has the answers to the small pieces, he is done.
For the unsolved problems, he does research to see how each piece is affected by the other pieces (known and unknown)
He breaks the unsolved problems down one more level
He does this over and over again until all the pieces that were once a part of a huge and unexplored problem are now solved

R.O. is currently a senior in college, considering entering crime scene investigation, or other lab based careers.

Career

R.Q. is someone who:

Is fascinated and pursues unique stories of people attempting to accomplish a meaningful life goal by...

In his mind, seeing them accomplish the task and imagining the emotions and challenges they will experience
Using that vision to genuinely connect to them and reaches a trusting agreement to share the experience
Blending in and becoming a part of the experience
Sharing the emotions of their accomplishments and disappointments of the experience
Sharing the story so others are moved by the emotions of the accomplishment and of overcoming any disappointments
Maintaining a personal relationship with the subject even after the experience is completed

R.Q. is currently a cameraman for a sports organization. Because he can’t share in the story as much from behind the camera as he can in front of the camera, he is looking for a position where he interacts more with his subjects (such as an experience writer, author, etc.)

S.A. is someone who:

Is always watching and reading to collect and store interesting data to reuse later
Accesses the stored data when encountering a new challenge
Privately assembles each piece of data logically and sequentially to determine how to overcome the challenge
Constantly reworks assembled pieces to find the very best working model in his mind
Pulls the trigger and tackles the challenge only after the puzzle is completely solved and overcoming the challenge becomes feasible
Stores away learnings from the experience of the challenge
Shares learnings about past challenges through stories to help others overcome their own obstacles

S.A. is currently VP Marketing pursuing CEO positions in organizations where he can learn and teach. He teaches in his spare time at local universities.

H.A. is someone who:

Intensely watches the actions of people and processes
Picks up and analyzes repetitive patterns of behavior
Connects those patterns of behavior with an assumption about the core essence of whatever it is he is watching.
Tests your assumptions by continuing to watch for reactions to actions
Predicts the next response of whatever he is watching
Incorporates what he’s learned into his knowledge base for a deeper understanding of himself and others

H.A. is currently in the military doing work in Iraq. He is pursuing other less dangerous ways to make use of his Given Talent.

A.N. is someone who:

Seeks opportunities to move others closer to his way of thinking
Tells stories, pokes fun or does actions that are “phony outrageous” (appear to be more outrageous than they really are) and are intended to move them
Watches and listens for a reaction
Gets a charge from the reaction
Evaluates from their reaction whether they can be drawn even closer to his point of view
Looks for another opportunity

A.N. is currently a direct marketing consultant and motivational speaker. Not only does A.N. use his Given Talent in his work, he also does it at home. He can even remember using his Given Talent as a young child, when he used to routinely tell his dad outrageous stories and do outrageous things to get his attention. H.A. attracted a crowd even then.

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Merrill W. – Harvard Business School Grad

Stuck in a Rut's unique process for divining given talent and then using that knowledge to change a life is worth ten times the price.

Diane G. – Administrative Assistant done with Pretending

As I am fast becoming a lousy Great Pretender, I am grateful to have found you and The Clarifier process. I wish I could remember more about the experience because I doubt I will ever have another one like it.

Rory L. - Customer Service Representative looking for R&D work

I always kind of knew how I think, but I've never been able to describe it to anybody because it seems so complex. It was mind boggling how quickly you guys were able to drill down and tell me exactly how I think in more detail than I ever thought possible. It was amazing! You nailed it!

Nancy C - Life Coach happy in her job

You don't know how much this is helping me. It gives me a new sense of myself. Your process lets me find out who I am in a fun setting and be totally OK with it.

Romano L. - Tech Specialist looking to get out

I have been working with Dave from the Stuck in a Rut and it has been great. You will find a friend; who really wants to help and takes joy in helping. His help and advices would probably cost hundreds or thousands in the open market.

Brian R. - College student majoring in science

I shared my Given Talent with my parents and family and they all thought it was dead on.

Bianka S. – Student who chose nursing as a career

It seems as though my talent is going to be playing itself out this summer. I am going to be taking the assistant nursing class and getting certified so I can do that this summer in a rehab center! I am so excited.

Mike M. - Insurance Consultant

BINGO!!! You nailed it right on the head! That’s is really where my strengths and talents meet.