Inform Yourself

My good friend Jay Niblick, founder of Innermetrix International, recently completed a study called The Genius Project. His study became the basis for his latest book, What’s Your Genius? I have worked with Jay for many years assisting organizations and individuals achieve a higher level of performance

Just Do the Math

To reach the point where you are truly authentic, where you fill a roal, you have to modify your existing role. You do this by stripping away, slowly, your dependence on non-talents one at a time, and increasing your dependence on your talents, one at a time. It’s really as simple as addition and subtraction. Add dependence on one talent – subtract dependence on one non-talent. Your journey to authenticity, and the 5th level of performance, is a matter of adding and subtracting, adding and subtracting, until you are sufficiently authentic and there are no more talents to become dependent on or no non-talents to stop depending on. I guess you could argue that the formula for becoming an authentic genius would be:

((+1)(-1))∞ = 5th level performance

• Add one talent
• Subtract one non-talent
• Repeat

We talked about shedding responsibilities or tasks from your role if they don’t rely on your talents, but sometimes you might have to add new responsibilities or duties that do rely on your talents. If it possible that your role was created without considering your natural talents and non-talents, it is just as likely that it doesn’t allow you to maximize all of your talents as it is that it expects you to rely on your non-talents. These new duties or responsibilities might need to be created and this is one of the ways in which you can create a more authentic role for yourself. The same three C’s of becoming authentic apply in this aspect as well. Through complimentary collaborations, being the one who a responsibility is delegated to or changing the way the role is done, you can add new opportunities for you to be a genius too.

~ Starting now, set to making these changes in your current roles ~

Do whatever you can to shed your reliability on that first non-talent you just wrote down above (your minimizer), and do whatever it takes to increase how much you rely on that one talent you just selected (your maximizer). I say “first” non-talent and talent because once you manage to add and subtract to your current role, your task will be to return to your report and select another talent and non-talent to repeat the process with.

As I said, it is actually that simple. At least the objective is. I wish I could help you specifically with what actual changes to make, and how to shed reliance on non-talents and add reliance on your talents, but the specifics of your job will dictate how you do that. In a blog or book form, unfortunately, there is no way I can hold all the information I need to suggest how you do that, but with what you’ve learned so far you should have everything you need to determine that for yourself.

While a blog or book won’t be able to interact with you enough to help you with some of the specifics of changing your life to become more authentic, we have created some programs where you can get that level of individualized, interactive help. Check out the additional resources page at http://www.whatsyourgenius.com for links to where you can get this level of personal help.