A key is useless until it fits. Talent works the same; find the right lock.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

A capacity with nothing to open is just an oddity. Being quick with numbers, good at calming people down, able to fix things, funny in a crisis. None of that means much in the abstract, and all of it becomes valuable the moment it meets a situation shaped to need it. Finding the match is a real search, not a sign that the key is defective.

Take the thing you are unusually good at and go looking for a lock this week. Offer it to one person, one team, one job, and see what it turns.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What talent of yours has not found its use yet?

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