“But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” Luke 5:16 NIV
The discovery and expression of your talents and gifts is an overflow of the personal intimate moments you create. For some people, self-intimacy is not important, and they, therefore, struggle to understand who they are and why things work differently for them.
How do you know more about your spouse? It’s by spending time together and having the right conversations. Such meetings lead to insights into who the other person is. If all you did was sit and stare into each other’s eyes, that’s not intimacy, but an eye contest. You get no new knowledge that way.
Some personalities find it easier to build self-intimacy than others, but anyone can do it. It simply involves spending time alone to learn from your actions and experiences, be vulnerable with yourself, figure things out and just enjoy the moment. Such restful states take your mind to elevated planes you normally won’t get to amidst all the noise of work life.
You don’t primarily discover your gifts, talents, and strengths by first asking other people. To me, that’s working backwards. It’s best to always have a clue and then have others confirm your suspicions. You get such clues when you spend time alone to reflect on past experiences, exploits, joyful moments, moments of swift execution and mistakes.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re just starting out as an intern or you’re a global executive. There’s so much more that you’re yet to discover. Your next discovery during a moment of self-intimacy could be the solution you need for your next breakthrough.
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