What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

As mentioned in Petal #3, there are three things traditionally called skills:
knowledges, as here; functions, also known as transferable skills; and
traits or self-management skills. And as we saw there, a general rule
throughout this inventory is that knowledges are nouns; transferable skills
are verbs; and traits are adjectives or adverbs. If it helps knowing that,
great; if not, forget it! Our overarching principle throughout this book is
that if a generalization, or metaphor, or example, helps you, use it. But if it
just confuses you, then ignore it!!!
On this Petal #5, you will eventually write your final results—your
Favorite Knowledges/Fields of Interest, prioritized in the order of
importance to you—on this page.
Petal Five, Worksheet #1
Q&A: TEN SHORTCUTS FOR IDENTIFYING YOUR FAVORITE
KNOWLEDGES, SUBJECTS, FIELDS, OR INTERESTS (WHATEVER
YOU WISH TO CALL THEM)
On a blank sheet of paper jot down your answers to any or all of these ten
shortcuts:
1. What are your favorite hobbies or fields where you like to spend a lot
of your time? (Computers? Gardening? Spanish? Law? Physics?
Department stores? Hospitals? etc., etc.) Start a list.
2. What do you love to talk about? Ask yourself: if you were stuck on a
desert island with a person who only had the capacity to speak on a
few subjects, what would you pray those subjects were?
If you were at a get-together, talking with someone who was
covering two of your favorite subjects at once, which way would you
hope the conversation would go? Toward which subject?
If you could talk about something with some world expert, all day
long, day after day, what would that subject or field of interest be?
Add any ideas that these questions spark in you, to your list.
3. What magazine articles do you love to read? I mean, what subjects?
You get really interested when you see a magazine article that deals
with…what subject? Add any ideas to your list.