Bright Idea Deck

Yellow Feeling APTITUDE

Associations

Encourages:

having a knack or innate ability to do a certain thing, choosing to do or to emphasize whatever it is that you do best, encouraging or promoting skill, providing training, playing it by ear.

Cautions against:

discounting the value of instruction, unjustified pride, failing to recognize or reward talent, failing to develop an innate skill, neglecting your talents.

Exploration

1. Why might this young woman be playing the piano with her eyes closed? What do her posture and expression suggest about her mindset as she plays? How might factors like these cause, contribute to, or maintain your current situation?
2. What does it suggest that this young woman needs no sheet music as she plays? How might your own situation benefit from playing it by ear?
3. How might the age of this young wroman be significant? To what extent is aptitude a substitute for practice or experience? How might the difference in aptitude and experience be involved in your current situation?
4. What aptitudes or natural talents do you possess? How do these impact or influence your experience of the situation at hand? How might they limit your ability to handle the situation well? How might these be used to resolve your current issue?
5. Imagine meeting someone with the ability to resolve your issue quickly and easily. What natural talents or innate skills would this person possess? What people within your network of contacts possess these qualities? How might you involve them in resolving your situation?

Commentary

Where does the music come from? Memory? Magic? We can’t be sure. Her fingers flicker across the keys, filling the air with moods and melodies. "She’s got the knack for it," we say, but what she does is less e matter of playing an instrument by ear and more a matter of becoming an instrument the universe can play. We all have gifts, some of us are just more aware of ours. What mountains might you move if you mastered this woman's inward focus? What miracles could you work if you put your aptitudes into practice?