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Personal Narrative Analysis

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I feel like people can go their entire lives feeling like they don’t have a talent. Personally, I felt like this for most of my childhood. I was not some great musician, dancer, or artist, there was no part of me that felt like a gifted writer or some brilliant mathematician. Still there was always one thing that I could do, and that’s think in new and innovative ways. One may ask how an ability everyone has can be a talent. From every technological innovation and mathematical challenge to every social theory and brilliant novel, there’s a monstrous amount of thought that goes in. But this isn’t your average, everyday thinking, it’s associative, “man-behind-the-curtain”, mad scientist, type thinking. This “through-the-looking-glass” way of thinking is my greatest talent and has helped me in …show more content…

As a student with fine motor skills issues it was difficult to convey the twisted web of ideas running through my mind at any given moment. I found comfort in the spoken word and eventually visually showing the connections I was making. It was around this time that I found web prewrites, which later developed into my love of flowcharts and word association as a cat pulls its yarn around a room. As time went by it became easier for me to convey my thoughts and ideas in the written word. Yet I felt like I had lost so much time waiting for skill to develop that I had to pack as much as possible into everything I write. My greatest talent, my ability to think in beautifully twisted ways would not become a hindrance, I would not allow it. My goal became harnessing all this untapped potential. I developed a very dense and convoluted writing style that packed in every thought running through my head. In this essay, I am letting this verbose, fluid, way of thinking come through unrestrained, though I have learned to write clearly and concisely, I feel this better displays my talent for associative

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