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>Where do I look for her passions?
I don't think you can. A person has to discover their own passions. All you can do is nudge it along by letting kids try a lot of different things and encourage them along when/if the going gets tough.
Some people never find their passion, or they're unwittingly discouraged away from it.
You might find this book interesting: http://www.amazon.com/The-Element-Finding-Passion-Everything/dp/0143116738/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
Good luck!
The Element - Ken Robinson This book might help.
Yes, it was to provide special needs kids with the education they needed. The creator of the SAT later renounced eugenics and the test itself, but assholes like Termen needed to apply it to the top end so he could keep getting research funding.
I learned about this stuff from Sir Ken Robinson's amazing book on the failed, modern educational system, "The Element."
I think special education for the numinous qualities of the gifted is certainly needed, but much harder to define. The space to let autodidacts teach themselves is probably the best thing schools could do for them.
Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration is probably the best work I've came across on the subject.
May I suggest The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Sir Ken Robinson.
The title may make it sound like a self help book, but it's not. Robinson posits some theories and ideas about what it means to be passionate, and the rest of the book are stories from creative people (Paul McCartney, Paulo Coelho) about what they do to stay passionate about their lives/work.
If you want a taste of Robinson before committing to a book, you can watch his TED talk about how schools are killing creativity.
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Sir Ken Robinson. He also did a very popular TED talk a big ago on how schools kill creativity. I find that reading stories of people finding success with their own skills is very inspiring and it makes you look at people in a brighter light. Robinson's book had some great stories in it. That and he's a great speaker. I'd recommend both the talk and the book.
There's a great book called "The Element" by Ken Robinson that is all about that.
He also has a TED talk
Lastly and perhaps MOST relevant is his new book called "Finding your element". In the first book I recommended he mostly uses examples of people's life from all areas that show how they became to love what they do, organizations that help along the way and the ones that are going the wrong way.
It really helped ME
good luck
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Correspondence courses in something that interests you? What do you enjoy? Get an entry level job at some big company and find someone to help you to develop your skills in whatever you want to do?
oh and read this
There are countless people who have defeated adversity and have gone on to lead successful lives (success by the way doesn't need to be defined as becoming wealthy).
We were all born with potential talents, skills and strengths, it's up to us to:
A.) find out what they are,
B) nurture and perfect them and
C) apply them with diligence and discipline
Most people don't suck at life, people that suck at life tend to project that onto everyone else to feel better about their own shortcomings.