Best of 2017: Finding Your Zone of Genius and Exceeding Your Personal Limitations with Gay Hendricks
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What exactly is “genius” and how do you use it? Gay Hendricks, a renowned psychologist and writer, has an idea of how to discover your “genius” and how you can use it to exceed what you previously thought you could do. Everything from contemplating what you love about your work to simply focusing on breathing for a short period of time, Hendricks understands how to find your zone of genius and exceed your limitations while doing so!
Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and practitioner in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence
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| 0:00.0 | What is my |
| 0:05.0 | my genius and how can I bring it forth to bear on my family and my culture and my business? |
| 0:11.0 | So those genius questions I think are things that we need to |
| 0:16.0 | cultivate in ourselves as a matter of discipline. It may sound odd to think of |
| 0:22.0 | discipline as taking some time each day to tune into what you're really all about, |
| 0:29.0 | but in a way, it's just as valuable as going to the gym for an hour. You know many people have |
| 0:35.3 | the discipline to go to the gym for a while but I've had it be so much |
| 0:42.0 | harder for busy business executives, particularly to gift themselves with that 10 minutes of deep reflection every day. |
| 0:51.0 | And that's all I ask people to start with by the way is 10 minutes. I don't ask |
| 0:55.2 | them to start doing a 30 minute meditation or a 40 minute. At first when I'm working with |
| 1:00.1 | them I ask them to sit there with me for 10 minutes and simply tune into their breathing. |
| 1:06.6 | And so to do everything else, we put it aside and we just create 10 minutes to focus in on breathing and then we might contemplate |
| 1:16.4 | one question like what is it that I most love about what I do in my work. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm Sreeni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative |
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