What’s your genius?

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Do you know what kind of work brings you joy? I'm not talking about what you're good at. Like what actually brings you joy? That when you do it, you get energized and it's overflowing, you can tackle anything because you love it so much. There's this amazing framework by Patrick Lencioni called The Working Genius. It has six types of work that people can do, personal, professional, that bring them joy, drain them, or just like, ah, I don't really care either way. I got to share them with you because it is life-changing. First one is the genius of wonder. It is asking the question, what is broken? What could be better? Then after that, there's the genius of invention. It is ideas to fix what's broken. Then there's the genius of discernment. Deciding which of these ideas is best. After that, we got galvanizing. You take the idea, let's go get people on board, let's rally them, let's create some energy and vision behind it and get people excited to move forward. Then there's the genius of enablement, which is doing the thing. You receive the vision, you're like, yeah, I want to do this. Let's make it happen. And then of course there's tenacity. You can spell it widget. Tenacity is making sure that the thing is done to completion. It's like, we did the thing, but did we check all the boxes? Did we hit the goal? And so with all of these, it is this idea of there are two things that bring you so much joy that as soon as you tap into them for a moment, even if you have no context and no training, you will love it. Maybe you love brainstorming, coming up with ideas. Like if somebody just says something, you're like, oh, this is broken, you have tons of ideas. Or if you're somebody that just loves to be able to get a room together and get people to go do stuff, you just love to rally people and move them to action. But also, on the flip side, there's some things that you're like, how was that person able to come up with so many ideas and I got none? Or it takes me eight hours to come up with this one piece that they could do in five seconds. This is the working genius at play. You have two things that are your superpower. It doesn't necessarily mean that you are wonderful at them, but they bring you so much joy so that even in your spare time, you are likely to navigate and gravitate to doing those things more often, which means that you are probably good at them. But, here's the thing. This is a ranking system, not a rating. Because every job, every responsibility requires all of these things. We have to identify what's broken. We need to come up with ideas. We need to make decisions and get people on board and do the thing and make sure it's completed. But, how do we find people around us that are gifted and energized by the things that we maybe don't love, okay? hate, right? So, this Here's where the framework is helpful. I personally don't love to do galvanizing and tenacity. I feel frustrated by communicating like this and rallying people on board. And so, if I were to pass this off to somebody else, it feels like a burden to me, right? Will it be a burden to somebody else? Well, depends if it's their genius. Because to them, it could be a blessing. And today, I just want to ask you one simple question. What are your geniuses? What is that thing that brings you joy? How do you focus on doing it more?