everybody is born with a natural
strength a talent it’s usually
discovered when we’re much younger but
many times we don’t give the skill much
importance we don’t think it’s worth
developing and we forget about the skill
and move on with our lives
winds up happening we go to we go to get
a education we get a job and we settle
for being average in our profession
because we don’t stand out I’m a
mechanical engineering undergrad and I
currently work at an aerospace company I
can handle both responsibilities because
I love what I do
I found a major where I’ve successfully
combined my natural born talents with my
career interests so my natural-born
talent is being an artist actually I can
paint and draw I these are my two free
hand oil paintings I paint these with no
formal training so all throughout being
a kid people would tell me when they
looked at my drawings they would ask are
you taking art classes and I tell them
no I’m not then they’d follow up with
Wow you’ve got a natural talent as an
artist so with this type of feedback I
developed the mindset to use my talents
in a career and so I broke down the
skills of an artist yes I could draw but
more importantly I could visualize I
could see what I was going to put on my
canvas before I dipped my brush in paint
this took innate imagination and
creativity and so when I entered college
I was exposed to the possibilities where
I could apply this talent I’ve always
had a strong interest in science and
astronomy and that led me towards the
field of space exploration
and it was then that I was introduced to
the world of engineering so I did
research on what engineering was and I
found that engineers make products to
make the world a better place
well artists create and make objects to
be enjoyed by society so I saw
similarities engineers also use
creativity and imagination to find
solutions also to artists I saw a lot of
overlap between art and engineering and
when I try to explain the people this
connection I saw no one believed me
everyone said that art in engineering
are two different worlds that don’t
cross over so I’m not working on the
next Mars rover but I am working for an
aerospace company and what I do there is
I there’s a tooling to help with
production so one of the tools I made
were these covers that protect these
circuit cards while they’re mounted on
these aluminum frames the circuit cards
are populated with electrical components
that are extremely sensitive and so I
was asked to make these covers to
provide mechanical protection I was
asked to make these covers two weeks
before my internship ended my department
had recently purchased a 3d printer and
they said let’s give the intern
something to do on the 3d printer so I
started designing these covers with
sketches on paper my artistic side came
out I showed my bosses my sketches and
they understood and gave me the green
light to move forward so I was
communicating my ideas through my
strengths which were with freehand
drawing so then I started modeling on
the computer and again my 3d
visualization skills kicked in
I delivered these products these covers
within one week I went from concept to
delivering a functional prototype and it
made everyone happy and then that was
what the read covers and then I got a
laundry list of tools to make it because
the word got out and then I made these
black covers that protects their cars
and a different type of frame so what
happened I successfully combined my
natural born strength with my formal
training in mechanical engineering and
also I turned into the go-to guy for 3d
printing in my department I was living
heaven on earth because I combined two
disciplines that seem unrelated and it
worked to my advantage so I use my
skills to visualize in my job for all of
you your talents are different and your
application of them are going to be
unique to you for example let’s say
you’re you have a strength in event
planning right maybe you’d like to plan
the family vacation or a birthday party
better yet you’re the one they call to
to put it all together if your job does
not require planning consider rotating
to another role as a program coordinator
your skill is to plan that it that
family vacation are gonna cross over
such as keeping track of bookings
vendors headcount and staying on budget
your innate skills as a planner would
carry you through your job role and
people would see that enthusiasm and
assign you more work in that area pretty
soon you’re gonna be rocking your job
and feel great doing it so first step
you need to identify your talent and you
do this by searching your past
experiences and searching deep within
yourself you got to think back to when
someone has told you you’re great at
this thing it’s something people come to
you for something that people love about
you
and oftentimes you lose track of time
when you’re doing it
some examples of talent can be reducing
complex ideas to simple to understand
terms or seeing the big picture in group
projects it can be anything next is to
put it in practice as soon as you put
your your strengths to work you’re gonna
see each Ange on the quality of your
work because these innate skills come
out of you naturally and as you keep
using them you’re gonna develop them
further and further the idea is to do
make career choices within your
strengths if you do these things you’re
going to stand out you’re gonna do
things better than most and ask yourself
what’s the difference between using and
not using your natural born strengths if
I had not used my abilities as an artist
to design those covers in my engineering
job I would not have delivered them
within such a short deadline I would
have missed the opportunity to make a
name for myself
and my company as an intern so for me
it’s art for you it’s something else so
go out there and play your strengths
thank you
[Applause]
strength a talent it’s usually
discovered when we’re much younger but
many times we don’t give the skill much
importance we don’t think it’s worth
developing and we forget about the skill
and move on with our lives
winds up happening we go to we go to get
a education we get a job and we settle
for being average in our profession
because we don’t stand out I’m a
mechanical engineering undergrad and I
currently work at an aerospace company I
can handle both responsibilities because
I love what I do
I found a major where I’ve successfully
combined my natural born talents with my
career interests so my natural-born
talent is being an artist actually I can
paint and draw I these are my two free
hand oil paintings I paint these with no
formal training so all throughout being
a kid people would tell me when they
looked at my drawings they would ask are
you taking art classes and I tell them
no I’m not then they’d follow up with
Wow you’ve got a natural talent as an
artist so with this type of feedback I
developed the mindset to use my talents
in a career and so I broke down the
skills of an artist yes I could draw but
more importantly I could visualize I
could see what I was going to put on my
canvas before I dipped my brush in paint
this took innate imagination and
creativity and so when I entered college
I was exposed to the possibilities where
I could apply this talent I’ve always
had a strong interest in science and
astronomy and that led me towards the
field of space exploration
and it was then that I was introduced to
the world of engineering so I did
research on what engineering was and I
found that engineers make products to
make the world a better place
well artists create and make objects to
be enjoyed by society so I saw
similarities engineers also use
creativity and imagination to find
solutions also to artists I saw a lot of
overlap between art and engineering and
when I try to explain the people this
connection I saw no one believed me
everyone said that art in engineering
are two different worlds that don’t
cross over so I’m not working on the
next Mars rover but I am working for an
aerospace company and what I do there is
I there’s a tooling to help with
production so one of the tools I made
were these covers that protect these
circuit cards while they’re mounted on
these aluminum frames the circuit cards
are populated with electrical components
that are extremely sensitive and so I
was asked to make these covers to
provide mechanical protection I was
asked to make these covers two weeks
before my internship ended my department
had recently purchased a 3d printer and
they said let’s give the intern
something to do on the 3d printer so I
started designing these covers with
sketches on paper my artistic side came
out I showed my bosses my sketches and
they understood and gave me the green
light to move forward so I was
communicating my ideas through my
strengths which were with freehand
drawing so then I started modeling on
the computer and again my 3d
visualization skills kicked in
I delivered these products these covers
within one week I went from concept to
delivering a functional prototype and it
made everyone happy and then that was
what the read covers and then I got a
laundry list of tools to make it because
the word got out and then I made these
black covers that protects their cars
and a different type of frame so what
happened I successfully combined my
natural born strength with my formal
training in mechanical engineering and
also I turned into the go-to guy for 3d
printing in my department I was living
heaven on earth because I combined two
disciplines that seem unrelated and it
worked to my advantage so I use my
skills to visualize in my job for all of
you your talents are different and your
application of them are going to be
unique to you for example let’s say
you’re you have a strength in event
planning right maybe you’d like to plan
the family vacation or a birthday party
better yet you’re the one they call to
to put it all together if your job does
not require planning consider rotating
to another role as a program coordinator
your skill is to plan that it that
family vacation are gonna cross over
such as keeping track of bookings
vendors headcount and staying on budget
your innate skills as a planner would
carry you through your job role and
people would see that enthusiasm and
assign you more work in that area pretty
soon you’re gonna be rocking your job
and feel great doing it so first step
you need to identify your talent and you
do this by searching your past
experiences and searching deep within
yourself you got to think back to when
someone has told you you’re great at
this thing it’s something people come to
you for something that people love about
you
and oftentimes you lose track of time
when you’re doing it
some examples of talent can be reducing
complex ideas to simple to understand
terms or seeing the big picture in group
projects it can be anything next is to
put it in practice as soon as you put
your your strengths to work you’re gonna
see each Ange on the quality of your
work because these innate skills come
out of you naturally and as you keep
using them you’re gonna develop them
further and further the idea is to do
make career choices within your
strengths if you do these things you’re
going to stand out you’re gonna do
things better than most and ask yourself
what’s the difference between using and
not using your natural born strengths if
I had not used my abilities as an artist
to design those covers in my engineering
job I would not have delivered them
within such a short deadline I would
have missed the opportunity to make a
name for myself
and my company as an intern so for me
it’s art for you it’s something else so
go out there and play your strengths
thank you
[Applause]
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