What Is Your Genius?

I am one of those guys who believes that our skills fall into 4 categories:

Our Genius - things we are the best at, that give us energy when we are doing them and we have a passion for, things that never seem like work.

Very Competent - things we are very good at doing, enjoy, but not our primary driver and passion

Competent - things that we can muddle through and accomplish but seem like a lot of hard work to us

Incompetent - things we are not good at, drain our energy whenever we do them, make us dread showing up for work.

Someone asked me, for example, how I motivated myself through the early years of struggling through building a business. I could not answer the question - as I thought about it, I never had to worry about motivation - I worried about a lot of other things (operations, finance, marketing, stress, time, health, etc...lol you get the picture) but I was always eager to get up and fight through the work day.

So the question is, have you ever asked yourself what gives you energy, what are the things you do that never seem like work, what is your Genius?

And the flip side, what are the activities that drain you and you are not motivated by?

If you are daring enough, I am curious as to what they are so let me know once you have thought about it - post it in the comment section below.

I personally like to hire people and encourage their Genius Quadrant - while trying to cover off their Incompetent Quadrant. But it is often very difficult as a lot of people have never evaluated and are reluctant to admit to what our quadrants are. Sort of like soaring on our weaknesses instead of soaring with our strengths.

On this note - I met a couple of people this week who were functioning at their genius category - it was really great to watch.