CHAPTER 3
How to Stand Out
Three Lessons for Building Your Strengths
Lesson 1: Your Genius Is Precise
Current thinking about effectiveness advises us to be flexible, versatile, quick studiers, ready, willing, and able to jump from one challenge to another. A close scrutiny of excellence, however, reveals that our edge—our particular genius—is precise. We each have specific areas where we consistently stand out, where we can do things, see things, understand things, and learn things better and faster than ten thousand other people can. When we find ourselves in these areas—our strengths “zone,” if you will—we are magnificent. Self-assured and flushed with success, we imagine we can do just about anything that we turn our minds to.
Yet we can’t. ...
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