Ask others
Talk of your friends and family you trust to be totally and completely honest with you. Ask one or two of them what they think your strengths are? What do your teachers compliment you on? On the other side: what do they say you’re bad at? Doing career quizzes and chatting with your guidance counsellor about your interests really helps you decide what you want to do in university.
Look at your grades
Check your old report cards. What subjects did you do well in? Consider if what you're good at matches what you love doing. For example: You may have done well in all your accounting tests, but you can’t see yourself working with balance sheets at all. Or, you may want to be the next Bill Nye the Science Guy, but you can’t handle writing lab reports. You need to be happy with what you’re studying since money and careers aren’t everything! It’s important to take time to really consider whether you can see yourself studying this one subject for four to five years and eventually passing them.
Try something new
Another tip is to try something new like a new club, a new part-time job, or a volunteer opportunity. Have you tried something and surprised yourself that it came easily to you (e.g., filming, coding, editing someone’s homework)?
