Genius ?
Marie Curie, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, indisputably… When compared to us, the term leaves one skeptical.
And yet, we all have a “zone of genius”, affirms the American psychologist Gay Hendricks, who coined the concept in his book
The Big Leap
(1) published in 2009, and immediately became an international bestseller.
If it is experiencing renewed success today, it is thanks to its 4 zone dial which resonates with concepts such as ikigai, the mission of life or more generally, the urgency to flourish, to don't miss out on your life.
Hendricks therefore identified 4: the zone of competence (others can do as well as me), the zone of incompetence (others do better than me), the zone of excellence (I excel in my field and the others want me to stay there) and finally, the genius zone (I excel at what I do and someone else couldn't do it like I do).
It is precisely this area that we must identify and exploit…
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