Penelope Trunk wrote a nice article recently on The Brazen Careerist blog that echoes what I seem to keep re-learning over and over again. We basically know what our personalities are like, and our core personalities rarely change much:

“It’s nearly impossible to eradicate our life of SHOULDS, because we all want to make the right decisions. But I think I could have figured out right decisions for me a lot faster if I had realized how much we reveal about our true selves when we’re young.”

She includes a good exercise to help you remember what you’re good at, what comes naturally.

Penelope’s blog is a pretty good read in general. I also enjoyed her recent interview on Marty Nemko’s career advice radio show/podcast, where she HIGHLY RECOMMENDED blogging. So much so that it made me want to go start a blog — even though I already have one!

Alternate title for this post: “You Already Know What You’re Good At Writing / Blogging About “

Link (to “Why you already know what you should be doing next” via The Brazen Careerist)