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Leaning into strengths and passions

Leaning into strengths and passions

From the course: Employee to Entrepreneur

Leaning into strengths and passions

Here's the great news. Everyone has a zone of creative genius. Now, let me define my terms here. Zone meaning an area, a topic, a subject, a field. Zone of creative. Creative does not mean artistic. Creative and artistic are two different things. Not everyone is artistic, but everyone is creative. Creativity has to do with innovative problem-solving, problem-solving in a way that no one else has ever solved the problem before. And genius, unique, innovative. Everyone has at least one zone of creative genius. This is also known as where your strengths and passions lie. Think of it as the thing you've always been interested in, even when you were a kid, and maybe even sort of mysterious. Like, I don't know what it was about pottery, but, you know, I was just mesmerized from the first time I saw it or heard about it. I have a friend who said they always loved spreadsheets. Every time they saw a spreadsheet, they saw a story inside the numbers. And now they have a business helping people…

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