I figured out what I was good at long before I could name it. I remember saying it back in university, before the agency, before any of the work that would later prove it: I’m a translator between two worlds. I understand each side deeply, and I know how to carry meaning across the gap between them.
I didn’t have a word for it then. It just felt true. Years later the work kept confirming it, and eventually other people handed me the proper vocabulary for things I’d already been doing on instinct.
I think a lot of people know their real skill earlier than they trust it. The naming comes later. The knowing is usually already there, quiet, before you give yourself permission to say it out loud.
What’s something you’ve always known you were good at, long before you had a name for it?