CHAPTER 1
Your Genius
Find Your Edge and Make It Work for You
You have a genius. Everybody does. If that strikes you as overblown, it’s probably because the word “genius” gets tossed around rather cavalierly these days. Everyone from the latest disposable pop star to a chef who knows how to make crème brûlée is dubbed with the term. In fact, if you search the words “Marcus Buckingham is a genius,” you’ll get … well, you won’t get any hits at all. But let’s not dwell on that. What I’m getting at is this: the word “genius” has become diluted, and it has evolved, as many words do, quite far from its original meaning.
“Genius” derives from the Latin gignere, meaning “to beget,” and its original sense in English described a guardian spirit present ...
Get StandOut 2.0 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
