Abilities largely determine the success of a person in a particular field of activity. Choose for yourself the sphere of self-realization in accordance with your abilities, and then the likelihood of your success increases.
Abilities are individual psychological characteristics of a person that are necessary for the successful implementation of various types of activities. In psychology, traditional abilities and special abilities are traditionally distinguished.
General abilities
Under the general abilities understand the intellectual abilities of a person. Intelligence - these are the abilities that are responsible for the success of a person in mental activity. The following cognitive abilities depend on the general level of intelligence:
- memory,
- Attention,
- the ability to think (the ability to compare, analyze, distinguish the main from the secondary),
- imagination,
- representation (for example, the ability to represent a three-dimensional figure in a drawn flat pattern),
- possession of speech.
All people possess intellectual abilities, but the degree of their development varies from low to high. Most people have more clearly expressed some intellectual abilities (for example, some people can communicate well, they have a good memory), while others have others (for example, abstract-logical thinking, due to which a person quickly and correctly solves mathematical problems).
Special abilities
If intellectual abilities are responsible for the success of a person as a whole in life and, especially, in the field of mental work, then special abilities are responsible for the success of a person in specific activities.
For example, special abilities include:
- sports ability
- musical (sense of rhythm, absolute pitch),
- artistic (ability to visualize and express images in art),
- math
- technical
- and others.
Each person has the ability to several activities. But, as a rule, abilities in one or two areas are most pronounced.