![]() It’s an idea that people grasp quickly and gives them something clear to work with. The goal in that work was to first identify those things that are in our zone of genius and then work towards spending the vast majority of our time doing them, leaving as much as everything else as we can to be taken care of by others. As Einstein reputedly said, “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.” The idea behind it is a sound one – that we all have certain things that come so easily to us that we don’t even recognize them as genius in action, either assuming that “everyone can do that” or that it’s no big deal because it takes no particular amount of focused effort to make it happen. Any time one of us works something out that’s outside of our normal sphere of expertise, which in my case can be anything from making a spreadsheet to sorting out a tech issue at an for an event, we’re rewarded (or reward ourselves) with an exclamation of “#geniusisinfinite”.īut in exploring things further, it becomes obvious that genius – the attendant spirit of intelligence and innovation that lives in all of us – has more than one critical characteristic…įor a number of years, I worked with and shared a concept called “the zone of genius” as part of my coaching. The hashtag part of the exploration came out of a running joke at my company.
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