Unfortunately, there’s no simple answer to finding your talent. Because really it’s about finding that talent which you are also motivated to do. And the motivation can come from a mix of places: both the use of the talent itself and other rewards (like money) it brings. Lots of trial and error and talking to people and research and thought is the basic approach.
But before taking that drastic step, you might want to also examine a bunch of other things. Like are there other things going in your life that are draining your energy? Are your other needs (e.g. needs for relationship, sleep, hydration, etc.) being met? How have you felt about your other work in this master’s program? How are your relationships with your peers and teachers? Any of these could affect your motivation.
You might want to also talk to people in the field and do some research to figure out whether this project really is representative of the work that you’d do on graduation. Often classwork has very little relationship to real-world work. So it might be the case that you’d love the actual career you’d get, but that you just have to drag yourself through a few classes to get there. And if necessary, you might just want to do mediocre work on this assignment. Allow yourself to be mediocre. Get a B, or heck, even a C. No big deal. That’s all that, under the circumstances, you may be capable of for this class. You gotta realize your limitations sometimes—and a limitation of motivation is just as powerful as a limitation of intelligence or talent.
Unfortunately, there’s no simple answer to finding your talent. Because really it’s about finding that talent which you are also motivated to do. And the motivation can come from a mix of places: both the use of the talent itself and other rewards (like money) it brings. Lots of trial and error and talking to people and research and thought is the basic approach.
But before taking that drastic step, you might want to also examine a bunch of other things. Like are there other things going in your life that are draining your energy? Are your other needs (e.g. needs for relationship, sleep, hydration, etc.) being met? How have you felt about your other work in this master’s program? How are your relationships with your peers and teachers? Any of these could affect your motivation.
You might want to also talk to people in the field and do some research to figure out whether this project really is representative of the work that you’d do on graduation. Often classwork has very little relationship to real-world work. So it might be the case that you’d love the actual career you’d get, but that you just have to drag yourself through a few classes to get there. And if necessary, you might just want to do mediocre work on this assignment. Allow yourself to be mediocre. Get a B, or heck, even a C. No big deal. That’s all that, under the circumstances, you may be capable of for this class. You gotta realize your limitations sometimes—and a limitation of motivation is just as powerful as a limitation of intelligence or talent.