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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

004: Finding and Maintaining Your Genius with Gina Marotta

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Gina Marotta turned the tables a bit as she asked me numerous questions to uncover my areas of "genius," the zone where I naturally shine. She shows you how to do the same.


— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) The value hiding in frustrating encounters with people.

2) How to stay in your genius groove when other forces might knock you off.

3) The benefits of play


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— ABOUT GINA — 

Gina Marotta loves work and wants you to as well. She is a thought-leader & strategic guide around what she believes is the most essential element for work to be fun, fulfilling, and fruitful: knowing and expressing one’s own inner genius. She spends her days writing, speaking, and counseling around genius to help people uncover and step into their most natural talents and the work they were born to do. She is lovingly known as “The Genius Guru.”

• Gina’s website: www.ginamarotta.com

• Gina's Facebook: Gina Marotta


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Article: Myers-Briggs thinkers vs. feelers.

• Article: The age cutoff for a “millennial.”

• Website: Step Up women’s network

• Study: Gallup employee engagement studies

• Book: Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz

• Podcast: Optimize by Brian Johnson

• Video: TED talks

• App: Pocket Google Chrome extension to read longer online content later.

• App: Instapaper

• App: Audible audio books

• Tool: Four “magical questions” to compile data daily on your genius.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:18.1

OK, well, once again, I am super excited

0:20.9

to introduce our next guest.

0:22.4

It is Gina Maratta and I met her

0:25.3

randomly at the bar Pops for Champagne when I had some guests in from out of town and

0:30.6

before we knew it she had struck up a conversation with us she was firing ice

0:34.6

breakers at us and we've stayed in touch all this time so she's a lot of fun she

0:39.1

has a real knack for being intuitive and and getting it with people so it's going to be pretty cool.

0:45.2

She's got some great nuggets associated with finding your genius and along those lines she shared

0:50.6

some particularly valuable pieces associated with the value actually that's hiding within the

0:56.1

frustration you experience when you're working with other people as well as how to say a consistently

1:01.2

performing well in the groove in your genius zone and about the

1:06.5

career enhancing power of play.

1:09.2

To check out all this good stuff in a visual format visit awesome at your job

1:13.5

dot com slash eep for that's letters e p arabic numeral four so

1:19.9

here's genius story the gene number out loves work and wants you too as well.

1:25.0

She's a thought leader and strategic guide around what she believes is the most essential element

1:29.4

for work to be fun, fulfilling, and fruitful, knowing and expressing one's inner genius.

1:36.0

She spends her days writing, speaking, and counseling around genius to help people uncover

1:40.5

and step into their most natural talents and the work they were born to do.

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