How do people find their talents and what theu love to do?

[SeanshterMonster]

No matter how hard I try, bo matter how long I do it, and no matter how many things I do I can't do nothing. I have no skills or talent. Being a "good person" won't get be far in life let's be honest. I tried art and painting which I like to do but I've done that for almost 5 years and I'm still really really bad at it. No matter how many videos I watch and how many lessons I try to take for anything at all I can't seem to learn and get better at anything I do.

[SenileOldMan]

My passion didn't really align with my skills. I was decent at something I wasn't particularly interested in from childhood and that became my career. It gave me financial security and I still think it was the wise choice at the end of the day but I never loved it so much.

Actually like you, I wanted to be an artist, or maybe someone who combines multiple mediums together like a filmmaker or comic book illustrator and writer (I would have preferred it if I could have done both).

I think if you want to accelerate as an artist though, sometimes you just have to say "fuck it" and throw everything out. Return to the basic pen and paper and draw, draw, draw. Analyze what you draw and start finding a design language emerging in what you favor. 5 years should still be enough to understand the fundamentals like form, perspective, anatomy, composition. I think what you might need is style if you want to go further with that. I didn't find mine until long after I graduated university and already settled into my career.

[SeanshterMonster]

I know the fundamentals. But putting it on paper Ican't. I can't draw a simple character even if it's cartoon. All I can do Is blocks and dragons. And I hate it so much, I've filled sketch book after sketch book filled with characters that have 10000 things wrong with them and I ended up burning or breaking them apart out of anger and frustration.

[lightbulb27]

I have a theory your best gifts come out of your strongest emotional experiences. So it may be compassion, emapthy, nurturing and such and there are professions where that is key... like medical, psychological, nutrition, etc.. Other than that, not sure other than trying and trying harder.

I had to work hard at everything I ever did whether school, racing, golf, computers, music. I always went from worst to pretty good, great in computers. nothing was easy. I learned to play music by joining the church band... unplugged until I was decent enough to hear, then eventually main guitar. just gotta do it, thent ry something else.

now I'm trying to learn basketball. you know how hard that is being short, old? but it forces my brain to work in new ways.

never stop learning. immerse yourself in opportunities...

[_brianna]

maybe you should start working on yourself, i learned that when i worked on myself i started finding out things i liked. sometimes asking these questions can be helpful too
1. what would i do as a child the most?
2. what did i spend the most money on?
3. what is the thing i don't like? (the reverse it and thats the thing you do like.

[SeanshterMonster]

1) play games or try to read
2) video games and magic the gathering
3) anything that has to do with public speaking, leadership, or politics.
The only stuff I like is art, breaking stuff, or fixing stuff but those last 2 never happen. Everything else is either really really dull or infuriating. I mean even when I draw I get frustrated and even so angry at myself for not being good enough that I destroy my sketch books and my paintings.