WEBVTT 00:00:04.062 --> 00:00:05.621 Rebecca Griffith is back on the show. 00:00:05.682 --> 00:00:06.123 Rebecca. 00:00:06.142 --> 00:00:08.003 Good morning. 00:00:08.022 --> 00:00:09.003 Always good to see you with 00:00:09.042 --> 00:00:12.944 your ring light now properly attached. 00:00:12.964 --> 00:00:13.384 You look great. 00:00:15.025 --> 00:00:15.724 We like books. 00:00:16.364 --> 00:00:16.964 For a while there, 00:00:17.045 --> 00:00:18.006 I wasn't reading as much. 00:00:18.085 --> 00:00:19.326 I think it's because I 00:00:19.365 --> 00:00:20.565 wasn't traveling as much. 00:00:21.227 --> 00:00:22.327 And then since the last time 00:00:22.347 --> 00:00:23.126 you were on the show, 00:00:23.187 --> 00:00:24.486 which was just like a week or two ago, 00:00:25.187 --> 00:00:26.568 I wound up diving into like 00:00:26.748 --> 00:00:27.707 three different books. 00:00:28.007 --> 00:00:29.129 It's Feast Your Famine with me. 00:00:29.408 --> 00:00:30.048 What do you want me to do? 00:00:31.117 --> 00:00:33.499 I only finished my romance novel. 00:00:33.658 --> 00:00:34.100 I'm not going to lie. 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:34.579 That's all that I have. 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:35.820 I'll get to the romance novels. 00:00:35.941 --> 00:00:36.960 I have not yet gotten to the 00:00:36.981 --> 00:00:37.661 romance novels. 00:00:38.421 --> 00:00:39.463 But do you want to talk about your, 00:00:39.603 --> 00:00:40.182 we're just going to talk 00:00:40.203 --> 00:00:40.783 about book and what we 00:00:40.802 --> 00:00:41.584 learned from it so far. 00:00:41.743 --> 00:00:42.723 Mine is a little mind 00:00:42.783 --> 00:00:44.604 blowing for me personally. 00:00:44.625 --> 00:00:46.085 Tell me. 00:00:46.146 --> 00:00:47.127 I want to let you go first though. 00:00:47.146 --> 00:00:47.307 Well, no, 00:00:47.447 --> 00:00:49.247 you got to go first because I 00:00:49.268 --> 00:00:49.768 thought we were talking 00:00:49.807 --> 00:00:51.929 about our StrengthsFinder. 00:00:52.070 --> 00:00:52.909 Oh, we can do that. 00:00:52.950 --> 00:00:53.670 This is related. 00:00:53.689 --> 00:00:55.091 Okay, I'm ready. 00:00:55.170 --> 00:00:55.430 Okay. 00:00:55.551 --> 00:00:57.552 So I am in the middle of listening to 00:00:58.734 --> 00:00:59.375 which is a little different 00:00:59.395 --> 00:00:59.936 for me as well. 00:00:59.956 --> 00:01:00.655 I'm usually a reader, 00:01:00.816 --> 00:01:02.296 but I'm listening to the 00:01:02.398 --> 00:01:04.039 six types of working genius. 00:01:04.118 --> 00:01:05.359 Are you familiar with this book? 00:01:05.620 --> 00:01:07.641 No, but apparently I need to be. 00:01:07.781 --> 00:01:09.042 It's wild. 00:01:09.281 --> 00:01:09.862 Now, of course, 00:01:09.882 --> 00:01:10.683 like all these books 00:01:10.742 --> 00:01:13.344 promise to be mind changing. 00:01:13.385 --> 00:01:14.206 It's going to change your mind. 00:01:14.766 --> 00:01:15.966 This one is, I think, 00:01:16.007 --> 00:01:17.968 great in its application and simplicity. 00:01:18.128 --> 00:01:19.489 So essentially what this guy 00:01:19.509 --> 00:01:20.629 figured out was he was 00:01:20.650 --> 00:01:21.811 working for an ad agency 00:01:22.510 --> 00:01:23.951 and he would do stuff that 00:01:24.012 --> 00:01:25.293 you did at an ad agency, 00:01:25.332 --> 00:01:26.194 like creative stuff. 00:01:27.509 --> 00:01:29.429 And he would thrive and he 00:01:29.448 --> 00:01:30.209 was doing great and 00:01:30.230 --> 00:01:30.989 everything was blowing up 00:01:31.010 --> 00:01:32.109 and he found purpose and he 00:01:32.129 --> 00:01:33.129 would go home and be happy. 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:35.329 And then he got promoted, did so well, 00:01:35.349 --> 00:01:35.891 he got promoted. 00:01:37.031 --> 00:01:38.710 And that's what happens at work. 00:01:38.730 --> 00:01:39.290 You get promoted. 00:01:39.331 --> 00:01:40.870 Yeah. 00:01:41.210 --> 00:01:42.412 And your job changes because 00:01:42.451 --> 00:01:43.471 now your job is a boss. 00:01:43.552 --> 00:01:45.311 Now your job is other people 00:01:45.512 --> 00:01:46.531 not doing the thing. 00:01:48.112 --> 00:01:48.912 And he was miserable. 00:01:49.492 --> 00:01:50.692 And of course, why would you be miserable? 00:01:50.772 --> 00:01:51.992 You got promoted, you got more money, 00:01:53.293 --> 00:01:54.474 but that's not what he was good at. 00:01:56.250 --> 00:01:57.170 So he keeps going. 00:01:57.189 --> 00:01:59.730 He keeps seesawing these things because, 00:01:59.751 --> 00:02:00.010 of course, 00:02:00.031 --> 00:02:01.572 it wasn't that obvious when he did it. 00:02:01.912 --> 00:02:03.531 Now my light is out. 00:02:03.611 --> 00:02:04.912 It wasn't that obvious what 00:02:04.932 --> 00:02:08.513 was going wrong in the moment. 00:02:08.552 --> 00:02:09.332 So he winds up, 00:02:09.372 --> 00:02:10.294 his wife is having this 00:02:10.373 --> 00:02:11.454 very clear and candid 00:02:11.493 --> 00:02:12.413 conversation with him. 00:02:13.074 --> 00:02:13.715 And she says, 00:02:15.435 --> 00:02:16.335 you know what you're going to have to do, 00:02:16.395 --> 00:02:16.594 right? 00:02:16.754 --> 00:02:17.375 And he's like, what? 00:02:17.495 --> 00:02:17.915 And she's like, 00:02:17.936 --> 00:02:18.475 you're going to have to 00:02:18.536 --> 00:02:19.475 open on your own agency 00:02:19.795 --> 00:02:20.455 because you're going to 00:02:20.475 --> 00:02:21.395 need to be the boss of everything. 00:02:21.436 --> 00:02:22.377 So then you get to do whatever. 00:02:22.676 --> 00:02:23.396 And that worked. 00:02:24.689 --> 00:02:27.330 for a while until his staff 00:02:27.371 --> 00:02:30.271 was almost like, this guy is an a-hole. 00:02:31.013 --> 00:02:31.853 We don't like him. 00:02:31.953 --> 00:02:32.733 What's going on? 00:02:32.932 --> 00:02:34.954 They literally impromptu 00:02:35.314 --> 00:02:36.694 were in a meeting room in 00:02:36.735 --> 00:02:38.156 front of a whiteboard and 00:02:38.175 --> 00:02:39.836 they came up with the six 00:02:39.895 --> 00:02:40.937 types of working genius. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:42.721 So here's what they are. 00:02:42.961 --> 00:02:44.342 They're just, so now keep in mind, 00:02:44.502 --> 00:02:45.903 this isn't like StrengthsFinders. 00:02:45.943 --> 00:02:46.944 We'll get to StrengthsFinders. 00:02:47.366 --> 00:02:48.227 Yeah. 00:02:48.266 --> 00:02:50.549 StrengthsFinders was like, there's like, 00:02:50.688 --> 00:02:52.811 there's like, there's like, there's like, 00:02:52.830 --> 00:02:55.554 there's like, there's like, there's like, 00:02:56.055 --> 00:02:56.495 there's like, 00:03:00.399 --> 00:03:01.558 And then I paid for the one 00:03:01.579 --> 00:03:02.680 where it gave me my top five. 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:03.919 And I'll bring mine up and 00:03:03.939 --> 00:03:04.520 you'll share yours. 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:06.979 This says there are six 00:03:07.020 --> 00:03:08.260 types of working genius. 00:03:08.961 --> 00:03:11.721 We all can do all of the 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:14.981 tasks except like a stoplight. 00:03:15.502 --> 00:03:16.921 Two are always green. 00:03:17.302 --> 00:03:18.223 They give us energy. 00:03:19.242 --> 00:03:21.843 Two are like yellow competencies. 00:03:22.524 --> 00:03:23.364 We can do them. 00:03:23.704 --> 00:03:24.883 They're neither here nor there. 00:03:25.704 --> 00:03:26.383 They don't light me up, 00:03:26.403 --> 00:03:27.245 but they don't drain me. 00:03:27.264 --> 00:03:28.564 And then there's two that drain us. 00:03:29.793 --> 00:03:31.473 So this guy realized when he 00:03:31.493 --> 00:03:33.294 was like a regular creative 00:03:33.314 --> 00:03:34.355 guy at an ad agency, 00:03:34.675 --> 00:03:36.157 he was doing greens all day. 00:03:36.217 --> 00:03:37.197 And he was bang, bang, bang. 00:03:37.236 --> 00:03:37.737 Everything's great. 00:03:37.798 --> 00:03:38.418 I'm good at it. 00:03:38.937 --> 00:03:40.019 This goes back to Ica guy. 00:03:40.239 --> 00:03:40.718 I'm good at it. 00:03:40.739 --> 00:03:41.319 The world needs it. 00:03:41.340 --> 00:03:44.401 I can get paid doing it. 00:03:44.701 --> 00:03:45.122 And I love it. 00:03:45.962 --> 00:03:46.062 Yeah. 00:03:46.082 --> 00:03:46.742 Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. 00:03:46.763 --> 00:03:47.924 So greens are like Ica guys. 00:03:47.943 --> 00:03:48.924 Okay. 00:03:48.943 --> 00:03:49.705 Every once in a while, dude, 00:03:49.745 --> 00:03:51.306 like some jobs require like 00:03:51.485 --> 00:03:53.086 you to do some yellow stuff. 00:03:53.167 --> 00:03:53.247 Yeah. 00:03:53.645 --> 00:03:55.926 But the idea was he wasn't a 00:03:55.986 --> 00:03:58.088 bad person or worker. 00:03:58.348 --> 00:04:00.349 He was doing the wrong work for him. 00:04:01.531 --> 00:04:01.770 Right. 00:04:02.510 --> 00:04:04.412 So that made him kind of an a-hole. 00:04:05.073 --> 00:04:05.673 So they were like, well, 00:04:05.693 --> 00:04:07.274 then we need to take your red, 00:04:07.413 --> 00:04:09.134 your frustration. 00:04:09.155 --> 00:04:11.776 So they're called geniuses, competencies, 00:04:12.317 --> 00:04:13.918 and frustrations, like a stoplight. 00:04:13.937 --> 00:04:15.378 Greens are good, yellows, 00:04:15.938 --> 00:04:17.540 and then reds are soul-sucking. 00:04:18.641 --> 00:04:19.982 The funny part is... 00:04:21.091 --> 00:04:22.733 what I would consider soul-sucking, 00:04:23.132 --> 00:04:25.052 a friend might be like, I love that, 00:04:25.413 --> 00:04:25.632 right? 00:04:25.653 --> 00:04:26.574 Because if you're like Jimmy, 00:04:26.694 --> 00:04:27.913 organize a spreadsheet every day, 00:04:27.973 --> 00:04:28.954 I'd be like, nope, 00:04:29.235 --> 00:04:32.016 rather rub salt in my eyeballs. 00:04:32.036 --> 00:04:32.755 Like couldn't do it. 00:04:32.915 --> 00:04:34.235 But some people love that. 00:04:34.576 --> 00:04:36.216 So the task is neither good nor bad. 00:04:36.557 --> 00:04:38.398 It is either a fit or a not fit for you. 00:04:38.697 --> 00:04:39.538 So you read the book or 00:04:39.577 --> 00:04:40.358 listen to the book and then 00:04:40.377 --> 00:04:41.098 you take this test, 00:04:41.117 --> 00:04:42.119 which I haven't taken yet, 00:04:43.038 --> 00:04:44.680 but I used AI and I'm sort 00:04:44.699 --> 00:04:45.639 of taking the test anyway 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:47.319 and found out that I've 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:48.581 kind of got my order 00:04:49.764 --> 00:04:50.144 Locked in. 00:04:50.223 --> 00:04:51.225 So what I want to do for you, 00:04:51.264 --> 00:04:52.206 cause you know me well enough, 00:04:52.305 --> 00:04:53.206 I'm going to give you all 00:04:53.245 --> 00:04:54.387 six of these things and a 00:04:54.406 --> 00:04:55.307 little description. 00:04:55.747 --> 00:04:58.009 And then I want you to tell 00:04:58.029 --> 00:04:59.750 me which ones you think I am. 00:05:00.872 --> 00:05:01.851 My order is all right. 00:05:02.372 --> 00:05:03.293 But are you going to do that 00:05:03.312 --> 00:05:04.533 for me so that I know? 00:05:04.593 --> 00:05:04.973 Yes. 00:05:05.173 --> 00:05:05.495 Yes. 00:05:06.115 --> 00:05:07.975 Um, um, 00:05:09.838 --> 00:05:11.238 what do you think about the book so far? 00:05:11.298 --> 00:05:12.720 And this idea, like what, like, cause you, 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:13.600 you were doing eyebrow 00:05:13.660 --> 00:05:14.701 raises and stuff like that. 00:05:14.906 --> 00:05:15.225 Well, 00:05:15.245 --> 00:05:16.807 so it's funny because I was thinking 00:05:16.827 --> 00:05:18.009 about a conversation that I 00:05:18.048 --> 00:05:19.990 had with my boss before I 00:05:20.091 --> 00:05:21.992 started my business. 00:05:22.612 --> 00:05:24.915 And it was like that guy, like, you know, 00:05:24.935 --> 00:05:25.817 where he was like, 00:05:25.916 --> 00:05:26.937 it's either time to like 00:05:27.077 --> 00:05:28.119 move on or do something 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:29.540 else or like get promoted. 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.701 And and then the promotion 00:05:31.762 --> 00:05:33.043 options for me didn't feel 00:05:33.084 --> 00:05:36.107 like it would be a good fit. 00:05:38.129 --> 00:05:39.250 And so I actually want to 00:05:39.269 --> 00:05:40.250 share that conversation 00:05:40.269 --> 00:05:41.271 that I had with him because 00:05:41.310 --> 00:05:42.512 it was really helpful. 00:05:43.331 --> 00:05:45.394 And he basically said, like I said, 00:05:45.413 --> 00:05:46.093 I've been waiting for the 00:05:46.113 --> 00:05:47.274 clinical ladder to change. 00:05:47.375 --> 00:05:49.016 I just feel like it's changed, 00:05:49.055 --> 00:05:50.357 but nothing's changed for me. 00:05:50.416 --> 00:05:51.737 Like there's nowhere else for me to go. 00:05:51.757 --> 00:05:52.218 For me, exactly. 00:05:52.237 --> 00:05:56.660 I'm still here on the clinical ladder. 00:05:56.860 --> 00:05:58.240 There's nothing else up here. 00:05:59.822 --> 00:06:00.543 And he kind of said, well, 00:06:00.562 --> 00:06:01.343 you've been pushing your 00:06:01.382 --> 00:06:02.423 face against the top of the 00:06:02.463 --> 00:06:03.485 clinical ladder for years. 00:06:04.507 --> 00:06:05.608 a real long time. 00:06:05.788 --> 00:06:08.689 So your choices are to like, he's like, 00:06:08.750 --> 00:06:11.591 every clinical ladder has a ceiling, 00:06:11.870 --> 00:06:13.531 like just the way that works. 00:06:13.651 --> 00:06:14.612 And there are leadership 00:06:14.653 --> 00:06:16.612 positions and there are, you know, 00:06:16.774 --> 00:06:18.553 other like research positions, 00:06:18.593 --> 00:06:19.995 like there are these options, 00:06:20.634 --> 00:06:22.115 or you can go out into the 00:06:22.136 --> 00:06:23.516 world and do what you're 00:06:23.557 --> 00:06:26.077 doing here on a bigger scale. 00:06:27.257 --> 00:06:28.699 And so that was really the 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:30.560 impetus for me to go from 00:06:31.540 --> 00:06:32.961 can I make a PT in the 00:06:33.002 --> 00:06:35.904 emergency department here outstanding to, 00:06:35.964 --> 00:06:36.906 can I put a physical 00:06:36.946 --> 00:06:38.067 therapist in every 00:06:38.107 --> 00:06:39.228 emergency department in the 00:06:39.247 --> 00:06:39.928 United States? 00:06:40.730 --> 00:06:42.432 And so do I work clinically 00:06:42.471 --> 00:06:43.632 as much as I did before? 00:06:43.733 --> 00:06:46.016 No, I am now a per diem therapist. 00:06:46.596 --> 00:06:48.879 But that allows me to not 00:06:48.939 --> 00:06:49.980 lose those pieces that I 00:06:50.060 --> 00:06:51.262 loved about what I was doing, 00:06:51.702 --> 00:06:54.127 but not be constrained by 00:06:54.166 --> 00:06:56.029 the top of a ladder and not 00:06:56.149 --> 00:06:58.052 be pushed into the next step, 00:06:58.072 --> 00:07:00.154 which is maybe people management. 00:07:00.896 --> 00:07:02.538 And I don't know that that's my strength. 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:03.598 Correct. 00:07:03.658 --> 00:07:04.459 It's a different job. 00:07:04.899 --> 00:07:07.762 So the best nurse in an 00:07:07.862 --> 00:07:10.024 emergency room doesn't mean 00:07:10.064 --> 00:07:12.026 she's going to be the next charge nurse, 00:07:12.047 --> 00:07:12.146 right? 00:07:12.166 --> 00:07:13.146 That's the person in charge of the nurse. 00:07:13.767 --> 00:07:14.569 It does not mean that. 00:07:14.869 --> 00:07:15.369 It doesn't. 00:07:15.910 --> 00:07:16.990 So just the best clinician 00:07:17.011 --> 00:07:17.690 or the one who's been there 00:07:17.711 --> 00:07:18.952 the longest doesn't mean 00:07:18.973 --> 00:07:19.432 they're going to be the 00:07:19.833 --> 00:07:21.415 greatest clinic director. 00:07:21.855 --> 00:07:22.536 No. 00:07:22.596 --> 00:07:23.216 Reverse. 00:07:23.456 --> 00:07:25.317 I see academies, associations, 00:07:25.377 --> 00:07:25.899 businesses... 00:07:26.798 --> 00:07:27.399 You know who they put in 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:28.622 charge of communications 00:07:28.641 --> 00:07:29.283 and social media? 00:07:29.583 --> 00:07:30.603 The youngest person because 00:07:30.644 --> 00:07:32.507 they understand the TikToks. 00:07:32.826 --> 00:07:34.949 And I'm like, you're doing it wrong. 00:07:35.269 --> 00:07:36.230 You need someone who knows 00:07:36.271 --> 00:07:37.353 how to do it and likes 00:07:37.392 --> 00:07:38.795 doing it because the likes 00:07:38.834 --> 00:07:39.696 doing it part is going to 00:07:39.716 --> 00:07:41.617 make them persevere to learn it better. 00:07:41.637 --> 00:07:42.079 Yeah. 00:07:42.485 --> 00:07:43.187 right and I was having a 00:07:43.247 --> 00:07:43.987 conversation with an 00:07:44.067 --> 00:07:44.947 occupational therapist the 00:07:44.968 --> 00:07:45.927 other day she went to the 00:07:45.947 --> 00:07:49.050 big uh aota conference and 00:07:49.389 --> 00:07:50.271 she said she was really 00:07:50.310 --> 00:07:51.350 excited about the new 00:07:51.391 --> 00:07:53.293 president of aota and I'm 00:07:53.333 --> 00:07:55.954 really hopeful and we got 00:07:55.973 --> 00:07:56.995 into this conversation 00:07:57.035 --> 00:07:58.456 about whether the the 00:07:58.495 --> 00:07:59.456 president of your 00:07:59.475 --> 00:08:00.557 professional association 00:08:00.576 --> 00:08:02.778 should be a clinician and 00:08:02.838 --> 00:08:04.238 clinicians always feel like 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:05.319 the person leading them 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:06.461 should be a clinician 00:08:06.521 --> 00:08:08.041 because they want somebody 00:08:08.062 --> 00:08:10.043 to understand what clinicians go through 00:08:10.992 --> 00:08:11.512 But to me, 00:08:11.572 --> 00:08:13.033 the skill set for leading a 00:08:13.113 --> 00:08:14.713 massive organization and 00:08:14.733 --> 00:08:15.834 the skill set for being a 00:08:15.874 --> 00:08:17.675 clinician are completely different. 00:08:17.735 --> 00:08:19.454 Are they both outstanding skill sets? 00:08:19.875 --> 00:08:20.235 Yes. 00:08:20.836 --> 00:08:22.576 And there might be some crossover. 00:08:23.415 --> 00:08:24.096 For sure. 00:08:24.297 --> 00:08:24.976 Do you want some? 00:08:27.918 --> 00:08:29.937 I want the best match, right? 00:08:30.038 --> 00:08:32.078 I want somebody who understands what I do. 00:08:33.078 --> 00:08:33.918 But I need somebody who 00:08:33.958 --> 00:08:36.659 knows how to run a massive organization. 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:38.740 And I see people complaining 00:08:38.801 --> 00:08:39.740 about how much... 00:08:40.870 --> 00:08:42.211 People get paid in different 00:08:42.272 --> 00:08:43.432 roles and different things. 00:08:43.472 --> 00:08:45.774 And why does this person get 00:08:45.854 --> 00:08:46.875 paid this much? 00:08:46.894 --> 00:08:48.735 And I'm the one seeing the patients. 00:08:48.755 --> 00:08:49.296 And I'm like, well, 00:08:49.336 --> 00:08:52.238 because the pricing for 00:08:52.278 --> 00:08:53.938 this skill set is different 00:08:53.979 --> 00:08:55.539 than the pricing for this skill set. 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:58.761 I'm not saying one is better or not. 00:08:59.280 --> 00:08:59.541 All right, 00:08:59.581 --> 00:09:00.581 so since I got a little bit of a 00:09:00.640 --> 00:09:01.221 time crunch. 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:02.522 Yeah, sorry. 00:09:02.721 --> 00:09:03.981 I'm going to give you the 00:09:04.042 --> 00:09:05.461 definition of each of the 00:09:05.522 --> 00:09:06.783 six types of working genius. 00:09:06.883 --> 00:09:08.503 And then, so if you want to take notes, 00:09:08.523 --> 00:09:09.143 because there's six, 00:09:09.283 --> 00:09:10.322 I sort of get lost when we start. 00:09:10.383 --> 00:09:12.583 All right, so they are called, 00:09:12.624 --> 00:09:13.543 I'll just give you the names first, 00:09:13.563 --> 00:09:14.384 then I'll give you the definition. 00:09:14.423 --> 00:09:18.644 They are called wonder, discernment, 00:09:19.985 --> 00:09:22.485 galvanizing, enablement, 00:09:23.379 --> 00:09:26.561 tenacity and invention so 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:27.402 now I'll go through them in 00:09:27.522 --> 00:09:28.282 that order and I'll give 00:09:28.302 --> 00:09:29.283 you a little now now you 00:09:29.302 --> 00:09:30.163 can sit there and you can 00:09:30.203 --> 00:09:31.323 check off or be like do a 00:09:31.423 --> 00:09:32.825 yes no or maybe because 00:09:33.024 --> 00:09:33.765 you're not gonna have to do 00:09:33.785 --> 00:09:34.907 like which one are my bests 00:09:35.346 --> 00:09:36.227 you're doing green yellow 00:09:36.288 --> 00:09:39.549 red genius uh let's see 00:09:39.690 --> 00:09:40.711 wonder discernment 00:09:41.610 --> 00:09:43.192 galvanizing enablement 00:09:43.511 --> 00:09:44.832 tenacity and invention 00:09:44.852 --> 00:09:47.075 invention invention 00:09:48.345 --> 00:09:48.865 So now I'll give you the 00:09:48.904 --> 00:09:49.806 definition of the 00:09:49.826 --> 00:09:51.006 description and you can 00:09:51.126 --> 00:09:54.129 guess which are two Jimmy's two geniuses, 00:09:54.528 --> 00:09:56.490 competencies, frustrations, green, 00:09:56.509 --> 00:09:56.811 yellow. 00:09:57.270 --> 00:09:59.331 So wonder sensing this 00:09:59.371 --> 00:10:00.673 person senses potential or 00:10:00.712 --> 00:10:02.394 possibility asking big 00:10:02.433 --> 00:10:06.057 questions about what could be better. 00:10:06.417 --> 00:10:08.018 Discernment using intuition 00:10:08.077 --> 00:10:10.519 and instincts to evaluate 00:10:10.599 --> 00:10:11.759 ideas and solutions. 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:12.760 Good judgment. 00:10:14.446 --> 00:10:16.988 Galvanizing, rallying, inspiring, 00:10:17.087 --> 00:10:18.149 and pushing people into 00:10:18.249 --> 00:10:21.292 action around a project or an idea. 00:10:21.633 --> 00:10:22.192 Enablement, 00:10:22.614 --> 00:10:24.735 providing support and help to 00:10:24.956 --> 00:10:26.197 others' ideas and efforts. 00:10:26.758 --> 00:10:28.038 This person is ready to assist. 00:10:29.419 --> 00:10:30.000 Tenacity, 00:10:30.421 --> 00:10:32.102 driving work across the finish line, 00:10:32.363 --> 00:10:35.245 committed to completing tasks and goals. 00:10:36.149 --> 00:10:39.049 and invention creating original ideas, 00:10:39.270 --> 00:10:39.831 solutions, 00:10:39.931 --> 00:10:42.871 or plans from scratch loves brainstorming, 00:10:43.393 --> 00:10:46.594 which are Jimmy's geniuses, competencies, 00:10:47.193 --> 00:10:47.815 frustrations. 00:10:48.054 --> 00:10:48.715 What are your guesses? 00:10:48.735 --> 00:10:50.076 Okay. 00:10:50.375 --> 00:10:51.856 I think your geniuses are 00:10:51.937 --> 00:10:52.917 invention and wonder. 00:10:52.937 --> 00:10:55.298 Okay. 00:10:55.378 --> 00:10:59.580 And I would say your yellows 00:10:59.900 --> 00:11:01.881 are discernment and enablement. 00:11:01.902 --> 00:11:02.601 Okay. 00:11:04.015 --> 00:11:05.177 And your red ones are 00:11:05.236 --> 00:11:06.957 tenacity and galvanizing. 00:11:08.057 --> 00:11:09.298 I have originally have 00:11:09.339 --> 00:11:10.458 galvanizing in yellow. 00:11:11.019 --> 00:11:11.299 Good. 00:11:11.379 --> 00:11:12.059 That's what I have. 00:11:12.100 --> 00:11:12.659 So you would change. 00:11:12.701 --> 00:11:13.740 So why did you switch that? 00:11:13.801 --> 00:11:14.942 Why did you put galvanizing 00:11:15.062 --> 00:11:16.842 in red in frustrations for me? 00:11:17.143 --> 00:11:18.423 I'm curious. 00:11:18.462 --> 00:11:20.865 Well, because I feel like wonder for sure. 00:11:20.904 --> 00:11:22.284 I feel like it's a green one for you. 00:11:22.325 --> 00:11:23.086 So here's what I had. 00:11:23.125 --> 00:11:23.566 I'll just do it. 00:11:23.605 --> 00:11:25.047 So yeah, I have invention and wonder. 00:11:25.672 --> 00:11:27.374 well see those two right so 00:11:27.734 --> 00:11:29.115 invention originally I was 00:11:29.174 --> 00:11:30.035 not going to have in your 00:11:30.056 --> 00:11:30.636 greens oh okay to me that 00:11:30.677 --> 00:11:34.320 was the definition I was 00:11:34.340 --> 00:11:35.741 like oh that's definitely 00:11:35.782 --> 00:11:36.883 jimmy so when I heard the 00:11:36.903 --> 00:11:37.803 words I was like that's not 00:11:37.823 --> 00:11:38.583 jimmy but then when you 00:11:38.604 --> 00:11:39.565 said the definition I was 00:11:39.605 --> 00:11:42.067 like definitely and then 00:11:43.191 --> 00:11:44.231 I originally thought 00:11:44.292 --> 00:11:45.471 discernment would be one of 00:11:45.491 --> 00:11:46.153 your top ones. 00:11:46.192 --> 00:11:47.673 So I guess maybe if I have 00:11:47.692 --> 00:11:49.714 to pick like my final 00:11:49.815 --> 00:11:51.575 answer is that tenacity and 00:11:51.634 --> 00:11:53.416 discernment are your reds 00:11:54.057 --> 00:11:54.917 and galvanizing and 00:11:54.956 --> 00:11:56.298 enablement for your yellows. 00:11:56.437 --> 00:11:58.058 So I had Will, do you know Will Humphries? 00:11:59.846 --> 00:12:02.168 Will's a PT at Arizona, similar to me. 00:12:02.227 --> 00:12:03.488 And he brought this concept 00:12:03.528 --> 00:12:04.769 to me or he's like a third 00:12:04.808 --> 00:12:05.649 person to bring this up. 00:12:05.928 --> 00:12:07.129 And he's like, Jimmy, you're just like me. 00:12:07.190 --> 00:12:09.049 You're an invention galvanizer. 00:12:09.331 --> 00:12:10.691 And then as I started taking the test, 00:12:10.730 --> 00:12:12.511 I'm like, I can do galvanizing. 00:12:13.152 --> 00:12:13.432 Yes. 00:12:13.572 --> 00:12:13.912 But I want, 00:12:14.052 --> 00:12:15.393 I want to be next to the galvanizer. 00:12:16.013 --> 00:12:17.433 like I'm the robin to the 00:12:17.874 --> 00:12:18.953 bat to the galvanizer's 00:12:18.994 --> 00:12:20.715 batman yeah I could do it 00:12:21.014 --> 00:12:22.475 in a pinch but it's not my 00:12:22.495 --> 00:12:22.995 it's not the thing I want 00:12:23.015 --> 00:12:23.956 to be doing the most amount 00:12:23.975 --> 00:12:25.017 of time no because it takes 00:12:25.037 --> 00:12:26.236 a lot of energy I'd rather 00:12:26.256 --> 00:12:27.437 just run into the burning 00:12:27.477 --> 00:12:28.918 building and be like I'm 00:12:28.957 --> 00:12:30.278 going instead of hey 00:12:30.318 --> 00:12:31.139 everybody let's run into 00:12:31.158 --> 00:12:32.480 the burning building I'm 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:33.460 like an invention is your 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:34.760 number one that's like your 00:12:34.780 --> 00:12:36.341 faith and then wonder for 00:12:36.380 --> 00:12:37.961 sure right so now I'm gonna 00:12:38.001 --> 00:12:40.842 guess for you okay I'm 00:12:40.883 --> 00:12:42.724 doing this live okay so let 00:12:42.744 --> 00:12:43.563 me look at these again so 00:12:43.583 --> 00:12:45.004 I'm gonna do that 00:12:46.602 --> 00:12:47.743 I know you had to do it live too, 00:12:47.802 --> 00:12:48.623 but I'm not good. 00:12:49.043 --> 00:12:50.224 I'm not good at discernment. 00:12:50.443 --> 00:12:51.923 So I think you, 00:12:51.943 --> 00:12:53.303 I think you are good at discernment. 00:12:53.344 --> 00:12:55.684 So I would put discernment at the top. 00:12:57.264 --> 00:13:01.806 I would put wonder also at the top. 00:13:01.966 --> 00:13:03.346 So do discernment and wonder 00:13:03.365 --> 00:13:04.346 for you in your greens. 00:13:06.145 --> 00:13:08.706 I would do galvanizing and 00:13:08.746 --> 00:13:10.407 tenacity in your reds 00:13:11.086 --> 00:13:13.668 frustrations leaving in wait, 00:13:13.707 --> 00:13:15.567 galvanizing and man, 00:13:17.576 --> 00:13:19.120 I think you're a yellow invention. 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:20.442 I think your invention would 00:13:20.462 --> 00:13:21.645 be a competency. 00:13:22.567 --> 00:13:24.932 And now I've got galvanizing enablement. 00:13:25.293 --> 00:13:26.375 Tenacity is on your bottom. 00:13:26.434 --> 00:13:26.996 You're like me. 00:13:27.236 --> 00:13:27.577 I think. 00:13:27.938 --> 00:13:28.298 Yeah. 00:13:28.820 --> 00:13:28.921 Yeah. 00:13:29.754 --> 00:13:30.634 And I think you would be a 00:13:30.674 --> 00:13:31.975 galvanizer in your yellow. 00:13:31.995 --> 00:13:32.655 You do it, 00:13:32.716 --> 00:13:33.735 but it wouldn't be your primary 00:13:33.755 --> 00:13:34.956 because that's a lot of energy, 00:13:35.015 --> 00:13:36.176 which means enablement 00:13:36.535 --> 00:13:37.397 would be on the bottom. 00:13:37.956 --> 00:13:38.277 Am I close? 00:13:38.297 --> 00:13:38.797 What is discernment again? 00:13:38.817 --> 00:13:41.297 Read that one again. 00:13:41.336 --> 00:13:42.677 Discernment is like, 00:13:42.697 --> 00:13:43.618 do you ever just someone 00:13:43.697 --> 00:13:45.317 who has like really good taste, 00:13:45.457 --> 00:13:46.399 you pitch them an idea. 00:13:46.479 --> 00:13:47.938 And even if they're not in 00:13:47.979 --> 00:13:49.698 your area of expertise, they're like, 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:51.399 hang on, why would that work? 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:52.960 And you're like, well, and they're like, 00:13:55.184 --> 00:13:55.865 I don't think it's there. 00:13:56.005 --> 00:13:56.546 They're not going to tell 00:13:56.566 --> 00:13:57.225 you how to fix it. 00:13:57.426 --> 00:13:57.986 That's different, 00:13:58.246 --> 00:13:58.767 but they're going to be 00:13:58.787 --> 00:13:59.868 able to assess like, 00:13:59.908 --> 00:14:00.548 these are the people who 00:14:00.587 --> 00:14:02.309 can walk into a room and they're like, 00:14:02.590 --> 00:14:04.971 needs a cat, needs a couch, needs a rug, 00:14:05.071 --> 00:14:05.672 needs a plant, 00:14:06.152 --> 00:14:07.773 but in like any setting in like, 00:14:08.293 --> 00:14:09.293 like they're good. 00:14:10.115 --> 00:14:10.674 Not you. 00:14:11.075 --> 00:14:11.414 No, 00:14:11.556 --> 00:14:13.736 I feel like if I had to pick my top two, 00:14:13.777 --> 00:14:15.778 it'd be wonder and galvanizing. 00:14:16.278 --> 00:14:17.219 Oh, okay. 00:14:17.239 --> 00:14:19.259 Cause I like to think I motivate people. 00:14:19.520 --> 00:14:19.701 Well, 00:14:19.721 --> 00:14:22.241 that's good at like seeing people's 00:14:22.261 --> 00:14:23.842 gifts and helping motivate 00:14:23.863 --> 00:14:24.644 them towards it. 00:14:25.225 --> 00:14:27.447 and um so I would pick 00:14:27.506 --> 00:14:29.528 galvanizer and wonder for 00:14:29.548 --> 00:14:32.149 my top two and then maybe 00:14:32.528 --> 00:14:36.129 discernment and invention 00:14:36.289 --> 00:14:38.191 second and then tenacity 00:14:38.250 --> 00:14:40.072 and enablement last yeah 00:14:40.111 --> 00:14:42.692 tenacity is tough but those 00:14:42.712 --> 00:14:43.493 are the people remember 00:14:43.513 --> 00:14:45.354 when I did party with a purpose yeah 00:14:46.187 --> 00:14:49.812 I, it wasn't on purpose, purpose, 00:14:50.533 --> 00:14:52.154 but Karen Hughes from the 00:14:52.195 --> 00:14:53.615 Academy of Leadership and Innovation, 00:14:53.996 --> 00:14:54.677 we sort of, 00:14:55.258 --> 00:14:56.440 I pitched the idea in a Zoom 00:14:56.460 --> 00:14:58.062 call and she and I sort of 00:14:58.101 --> 00:14:59.322 found each other and she was like, 00:15:01.024 --> 00:15:02.167 and in my guess, she's, 00:15:02.847 --> 00:15:04.490 I think her number one would be tenacity. 00:15:05.791 --> 00:15:06.932 And I feel like the two of 00:15:06.971 --> 00:15:08.452 us together have so many good ideas, 00:15:08.493 --> 00:15:09.354 but we can't get them over 00:15:09.374 --> 00:15:09.833 the finish line. 00:15:09.854 --> 00:15:10.094 Correct. 00:15:10.754 --> 00:15:11.595 So without Karen, 00:15:11.615 --> 00:15:12.796 that event wouldn't have happened, 00:15:12.895 --> 00:15:13.756 even though everybody saw 00:15:13.876 --> 00:15:15.278 me as the person who put it on, 00:15:15.758 --> 00:15:16.739 because I was the loud one. 00:15:16.798 --> 00:15:18.159 I was like the one asking the questions. 00:15:18.460 --> 00:15:21.201 But without a Karen, without a tenacity, 00:15:21.322 --> 00:15:22.702 and she's probably enablement, 00:15:23.003 --> 00:15:25.004 without a Karen, that doesn't happen. 00:15:25.784 --> 00:15:26.666 It's a really great idea 00:15:26.686 --> 00:15:27.426 that sits on the shelf. 00:15:27.525 --> 00:15:28.586 Ideas are a dime a dozen, 00:15:29.408 --> 00:15:30.327 but you have to be paired. 00:15:30.408 --> 00:15:32.970 And so what's the takeaway from all this? 00:15:32.990 --> 00:15:34.551 I need a higher tenacity. 00:15:35.816 --> 00:15:36.035 Well, 00:15:36.235 --> 00:15:38.596 Will has an organization called 00:15:38.636 --> 00:15:39.998 Virtual Rockstars where he 00:15:41.359 --> 00:15:43.318 is like a matchmaking 00:15:43.359 --> 00:15:45.259 service for virtual assistants. 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:46.181 You need to talk to Will. 00:15:47.142 --> 00:15:48.162 Because Will is going to 00:15:48.182 --> 00:15:49.842 have you take six types of working genius, 00:15:50.163 --> 00:15:51.123 and he has everybody that 00:15:51.163 --> 00:15:53.004 works who wants to work for him take it, 00:15:53.244 --> 00:15:55.504 and he matches the right people. 00:15:55.845 --> 00:15:57.525 Because now you have a common language. 00:15:57.605 --> 00:15:59.245 You have a common nomenclature, 00:15:59.365 --> 00:16:00.506 as the academics would call it. 00:16:00.787 --> 00:16:01.567 And you're able to say, 00:16:01.947 --> 00:16:03.028 Jimmy doesn't need to hang 00:16:03.087 --> 00:16:04.687 out with Will on a regular 00:16:04.707 --> 00:16:06.109 basis in a good way. 00:16:06.269 --> 00:16:07.788 The problem would be so many 00:16:07.869 --> 00:16:09.009 ideas but no execution. 00:16:09.750 --> 00:16:10.769 But you get Jimmy and Will 00:16:10.789 --> 00:16:12.270 in a room once a month and 00:16:12.291 --> 00:16:13.770 we get fifty ideas and then 00:16:13.791 --> 00:16:14.991 we give it to a discernment 00:16:15.032 --> 00:16:15.731 person and we go, 00:16:16.011 --> 00:16:16.812 which are the two that are 00:16:16.831 --> 00:16:18.072 most likely to succeed? 00:16:18.312 --> 00:16:18.572 Good. 00:16:18.852 --> 00:16:19.972 You hand it to a tenacity 00:16:20.033 --> 00:16:21.192 enablement person and you're like, 00:16:21.493 --> 00:16:22.333 help them execute. 00:16:23.293 --> 00:16:24.653 This explains a lot of why 00:16:24.953 --> 00:16:25.754 the stuff that I do. 00:16:26.095 --> 00:16:26.735 People have been telling me 00:16:26.894 --> 00:16:28.014 to launch a course on how 00:16:28.034 --> 00:16:28.955 to teach podcasters how to 00:16:28.995 --> 00:16:30.755 podcast for years. 00:16:30.816 --> 00:16:31.296 I could do it. 00:16:31.875 --> 00:16:32.616 I don't have a tenacity or 00:16:32.636 --> 00:16:33.297 an enablement person. 00:16:33.317 --> 00:16:33.397 Yeah, 00:16:33.836 --> 00:16:35.596 I've got a whole book of things that 00:16:35.616 --> 00:16:37.738 I want to do. 00:16:38.393 --> 00:16:38.712 Right? 00:16:38.972 --> 00:16:39.854 But this explains, 00:16:40.274 --> 00:16:41.274 but here's the flip side. 00:16:41.735 --> 00:16:43.596 The tenacity and enablement 00:16:43.615 --> 00:16:44.956 people are sitting around going, 00:16:45.317 --> 00:16:46.518 wish I had someone to tee 00:16:46.538 --> 00:16:47.317 off on a good idea with. 00:16:47.357 --> 00:16:48.899 Now hiring tenacity. 00:16:49.979 --> 00:16:50.659 Neither of these, 00:16:50.860 --> 00:16:52.541 none of these six are better or worse. 00:16:52.961 --> 00:16:54.782 It's just understanding who you are, 00:16:55.523 --> 00:16:56.462 what gives you energy. 00:16:56.602 --> 00:16:57.443 I could go to a conference 00:16:57.464 --> 00:16:59.043 and talk to people all damn day. 00:16:59.325 --> 00:17:00.804 I know people who that drains them. 00:17:00.825 --> 00:17:01.446 Yeah. 00:17:02.323 --> 00:17:02.744 I get it. 00:17:03.144 --> 00:17:04.424 Doesn't mean what I do is better. 00:17:04.464 --> 00:17:06.705 It's just understanding you 00:17:07.185 --> 00:17:08.707 and like Lego bricks, 00:17:09.267 --> 00:17:10.666 which ones you should link 00:17:10.727 --> 00:17:13.028 up with in different situations. 00:17:13.048 --> 00:17:14.088 This is not universal 00:17:14.989 --> 00:17:16.789 because if it was a brainstorming sesh, 00:17:17.309 --> 00:17:18.951 a tenacity is annoying 00:17:18.971 --> 00:17:20.090 because they're like, are we done yet? 00:17:20.151 --> 00:17:21.551 And I'm like, dude, I don't, I don't know. 00:17:21.951 --> 00:17:24.573 We're going to go far wide and deep. 00:17:24.593 --> 00:17:25.553 The discernment people are 00:17:25.593 --> 00:17:27.134 really annoying during that too. 00:17:27.998 --> 00:17:28.979 But so they're better and 00:17:29.038 --> 00:17:29.859 worse in different, 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:30.540 they're just better or 00:17:30.601 --> 00:17:31.041 worse in different. 00:17:31.082 --> 00:17:31.362 But like, 00:17:31.461 --> 00:17:32.703 I need you not in the room while 00:17:32.743 --> 00:17:33.986 I'm doing that because I 00:17:34.026 --> 00:17:35.186 want to have all the ideas. 00:17:35.346 --> 00:17:36.848 I don't want to judge the ideas right now. 00:17:36.888 --> 00:17:37.470 And I don't want to have to 00:17:37.509 --> 00:17:38.832 explain them yet. 00:17:39.454 --> 00:17:39.914 Right. 00:17:40.275 --> 00:17:41.816 And then if it's a bad idea, 00:17:41.855 --> 00:17:42.556 tell me later. 00:17:42.695 --> 00:17:44.135 But right now I need to just 00:17:44.215 --> 00:17:45.215 get the idea out there 00:17:45.256 --> 00:17:46.717 because maybe the piece of 00:17:46.737 --> 00:17:47.957 that idea is going to end 00:17:48.076 --> 00:17:49.217 up being the idea. 00:17:49.936 --> 00:17:51.178 I call them idea parts. 00:17:51.278 --> 00:17:52.518 I'll be like, I have an idea part. 00:17:52.978 --> 00:17:54.157 I don't have a fully formed idea. 00:17:54.478 --> 00:17:56.219 You bring that in my mind to 00:17:56.259 --> 00:17:57.419 a discernment person. 00:17:57.939 --> 00:17:59.720 They'll be able to be like, huh? 00:17:59.819 --> 00:18:00.079 Yeah, 00:18:00.140 --> 00:18:01.279 you're eighty five percent of the way 00:18:01.299 --> 00:18:01.519 there. 00:18:02.679 --> 00:18:03.479 And then if they have a 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:04.960 little maybe more enablement in them, 00:18:05.019 --> 00:18:05.721 they'll be able to go, 00:18:06.181 --> 00:18:07.041 what if you did that? 00:18:07.102 --> 00:18:08.082 And you're like, damn, 00:18:08.122 --> 00:18:09.103 I never would have saw that. 00:18:09.563 --> 00:18:10.403 Yes. 00:18:10.503 --> 00:18:11.304 We're better when we 00:18:11.324 --> 00:18:12.964 understand ourselves and 00:18:13.005 --> 00:18:15.046 the people on our team. 00:18:15.946 --> 00:18:16.666 This book is wild. 00:18:16.747 --> 00:18:18.228 It was eleven dollars on Audible. 00:18:18.647 --> 00:18:20.328 I don't get a nickel. 00:18:20.368 --> 00:18:21.710 I was going to do the one 00:18:21.730 --> 00:18:23.611 you said last week, the Mel Robbins one. 00:18:23.631 --> 00:18:24.451 But now I'm going to bump 00:18:24.471 --> 00:18:25.432 this one up the list 00:18:25.491 --> 00:18:27.333 because this one Mel Robbins is great. 00:18:27.792 --> 00:18:28.114 She's great. 00:18:28.134 --> 00:18:28.773 I'm still reading it. 00:18:28.814 --> 00:18:29.453 And I bought the book. 00:18:31.750 --> 00:18:32.872 that is sort of how you 00:18:32.932 --> 00:18:33.832 interact with the world. 00:18:33.872 --> 00:18:35.053 Mel Robbins' Let Them Theory. 00:18:35.073 --> 00:18:36.233 Yeah. 00:18:36.294 --> 00:18:36.513 I mean, 00:18:36.594 --> 00:18:37.835 I read the first two chapters and 00:18:37.855 --> 00:18:38.555 I'm like, get it. 00:18:38.674 --> 00:18:38.835 Like, 00:18:39.115 --> 00:18:40.096 I'm not saying I can't learn more 00:18:40.115 --> 00:18:40.556 from the book, 00:18:40.635 --> 00:18:41.396 but I'm pretty sure she's 00:18:41.416 --> 00:18:42.136 good at explaining and 00:18:42.156 --> 00:18:43.498 she's going to re-explain 00:18:43.518 --> 00:18:45.538 the same concept two more times. 00:18:46.259 --> 00:18:47.359 I'm listening to Six Types 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:49.121 of Working Genius and I'm like, hot damn. 00:18:49.280 --> 00:18:49.701 They've also, 00:18:49.820 --> 00:18:51.041 now they've switched their business. 00:18:51.082 --> 00:18:51.442 They are, 00:18:51.561 --> 00:18:52.923 the guy who invented this is still, 00:18:52.982 --> 00:18:53.943 I think, an ad agency, 00:18:54.304 --> 00:18:55.263 but half of their business 00:18:55.284 --> 00:18:56.664 is going into giant corporations, 00:18:57.025 --> 00:18:58.925 teaching this and doing workshops. 00:18:59.205 --> 00:18:59.987 He made his own job. 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:02.421 Yeah, 00:19:02.500 --> 00:19:04.041 I'm even just thinking about like 00:19:04.642 --> 00:19:06.242 medical teams and how this 00:19:06.262 --> 00:19:07.663 would be really helpful too. 00:19:08.424 --> 00:19:10.185 Because how are medical teams usually, 00:19:10.286 --> 00:19:13.167 what's the hierarchy? 00:19:13.208 --> 00:19:13.949 Gosh. 00:19:13.989 --> 00:19:16.330 Degrees, number of years in service, 00:19:16.711 --> 00:19:17.010 right? 00:19:18.112 --> 00:19:18.491 Whatever, 00:19:18.711 --> 00:19:20.373 like none of those are working genius. 00:19:20.574 --> 00:19:21.433 How long you're there? 00:19:22.035 --> 00:19:23.675 I mean, get it, like seniority. 00:19:23.695 --> 00:19:25.277 What certification you have. 00:19:25.317 --> 00:19:26.877 What certifications, what degrees, 00:19:27.077 --> 00:19:28.159 what your specialty is. 00:19:28.778 --> 00:19:29.759 But what if the invention 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:30.621 guy is the janitor? 00:19:31.868 --> 00:19:32.869 And I'm not knocking janitors, 00:19:32.890 --> 00:19:33.869 but I'm just saying we 00:19:33.890 --> 00:19:34.730 would discount that 00:19:34.770 --> 00:19:36.932 person's idea based on their status, 00:19:36.951 --> 00:19:38.833 their perceived status using air quotes. 00:19:38.853 --> 00:19:40.773 Okay. 00:19:40.854 --> 00:19:41.513 Wild, right? 00:19:41.534 --> 00:19:41.614 Yeah. 00:19:43.474 --> 00:19:44.915 So I have to go to a meeting 00:19:44.935 --> 00:19:45.557 in three minutes. 00:19:45.817 --> 00:19:46.017 Yeah. 00:19:46.496 --> 00:19:47.856 but I wanted to share this with you. 00:19:47.957 --> 00:19:49.198 I was listening to this book going, 00:19:49.337 --> 00:19:49.958 Rebecca needs this. 00:19:50.219 --> 00:19:51.378 Cause you and I are wonder 00:19:51.419 --> 00:19:52.700 invention sort of people-y 00:19:53.421 --> 00:19:54.260 and you've come to me. 00:19:54.401 --> 00:19:55.561 I think I can help other 00:19:55.582 --> 00:19:56.542 people with their ideas and 00:19:56.603 --> 00:19:58.084 executions a lot easier than myself, 00:19:58.124 --> 00:19:59.105 but that's sort of a 00:19:59.204 --> 00:20:00.184 universal truth anyway. 00:20:01.105 --> 00:20:02.146 But I can see you, you're like, 00:20:02.166 --> 00:20:02.767 I want to write a book. 00:20:02.787 --> 00:20:03.667 I'm like, hell yeah. 00:20:04.587 --> 00:20:05.628 My first instinct is you 00:20:05.648 --> 00:20:06.309 need someone else to write 00:20:06.349 --> 00:20:07.130 the book with you. 00:20:07.630 --> 00:20:08.191 You're the, 00:20:08.250 --> 00:20:09.832 here's someone put it in this context. 00:20:11.413 --> 00:20:13.654 Wonder invention people, galvanizers, 00:20:14.214 --> 00:20:15.135 we're the wow people. 00:20:16.169 --> 00:20:17.069 But we need to help people. 00:20:18.030 --> 00:20:18.330 Yes. 00:20:18.550 --> 00:20:19.211 So I've been called a 00:20:19.251 --> 00:20:20.353 visionary without a plan. 00:20:20.492 --> 00:20:22.035 And I will own that. 00:20:22.915 --> 00:20:23.215 Own it. 00:20:24.037 --> 00:20:24.777 I will own that. 00:20:25.810 --> 00:20:31.394 But it's a great vision. 00:20:31.413 --> 00:20:31.993 So if you're the person who 00:20:32.034 --> 00:20:32.855 can make the plan, like, you know, 00:20:32.875 --> 00:20:33.194 I'm open to that. 00:20:33.214 --> 00:20:33.394 Please. 00:20:33.414 --> 00:20:34.375 This is if you want to go fast, go alone. 00:20:34.394 --> 00:20:35.496 If you want to go far, go together. 00:20:35.756 --> 00:20:36.215 Is that right? 00:20:36.256 --> 00:20:36.435 Yeah. 00:20:36.455 --> 00:20:37.817 Fast, alone, far together. 00:20:38.457 --> 00:20:39.458 Parting shots for today. 00:20:39.478 --> 00:20:41.078 This is a truncated episode 00:20:41.118 --> 00:20:42.159 live stream because I have 00:20:42.179 --> 00:20:42.920 a meeting to go to. 00:20:43.579 --> 00:20:44.359 It should be my lunch, 00:20:44.380 --> 00:20:45.040 but I'm doing a meeting. 00:20:45.141 --> 00:20:46.701 But what would you leave with everybody? 00:20:46.761 --> 00:20:47.382 Parting shot today. 00:20:49.386 --> 00:20:50.428 I think my parting shot is 00:20:50.448 --> 00:20:52.348 just accept who you are and 00:20:52.588 --> 00:20:53.849 go forward into where your 00:20:53.890 --> 00:20:55.310 strengths are instead of 00:20:55.351 --> 00:20:56.451 trying to force yourself to 00:20:56.490 --> 00:20:57.392 be good at something that 00:20:57.412 --> 00:20:58.291 you're not and something 00:20:58.311 --> 00:20:59.532 that doesn't serve you or 00:20:59.633 --> 00:21:00.453 others and something that 00:21:00.473 --> 00:21:01.753 you don't enjoy and partner 00:21:01.773 --> 00:21:02.515 with the right people. 00:21:02.875 --> 00:21:03.955 I love hanging out with you 00:21:03.976 --> 00:21:05.296 because we are fun and we 00:21:05.316 --> 00:21:06.257 do fun things together. 00:21:06.376 --> 00:21:08.077 We're not going to write a book together. 00:21:08.417 --> 00:21:10.318 We're not going to run a company together. 00:21:10.638 --> 00:21:11.460 We shouldn't. 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:11.880 No. 00:21:12.460 --> 00:21:12.760 We shouldn't. 00:21:13.520 --> 00:21:16.103 I would say the... 00:21:17.261 --> 00:21:18.481 Success you're seeking is 00:21:18.521 --> 00:21:19.722 hiding in the work you're not doing. 00:21:20.423 --> 00:21:22.423 And sometimes, a lot of times, 00:21:22.463 --> 00:21:26.444 and I'm speaking from myself, it's me. 00:21:26.684 --> 00:21:27.665 Hi, I'm the problem. 00:21:28.226 --> 00:21:28.566 It's me. 00:21:28.846 --> 00:21:29.566 Sometimes you are the 00:21:29.586 --> 00:21:30.727 limiting factor in that. 00:21:31.287 --> 00:21:33.326 So get out of your own way. 00:21:33.688 --> 00:21:34.347 And sometimes it's 00:21:34.407 --> 00:21:35.468 understanding what you're great at, 00:21:35.728 --> 00:21:36.628 what you're not so great at, 00:21:37.088 --> 00:21:37.828 and then hiring or 00:21:37.868 --> 00:21:38.689 partnering for the things 00:21:38.709 --> 00:21:39.229 you're not great at. 00:21:39.589 --> 00:21:40.890 Or in this case of Working Genius, 00:21:41.190 --> 00:21:43.990 the things that you might, you can do, 00:21:44.111 --> 00:21:45.392 I can do a tenacity task. 00:21:45.471 --> 00:21:46.372 I've run the Ironman. 00:21:48.167 --> 00:21:50.150 Same. 00:21:50.250 --> 00:21:50.830 I can do it, 00:21:51.371 --> 00:21:53.854 but some tenacity tasks suck 00:21:53.894 --> 00:21:54.634 the life out of me. 00:21:54.714 --> 00:21:55.796 I'm just not going to finish them. 00:21:55.816 --> 00:21:57.278 Yeah. 00:21:57.337 --> 00:21:57.798 So, all right. 00:21:57.817 --> 00:21:59.039 That's my parting shot for today. 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:00.161 We'll be back next week with 00:22:00.221 --> 00:22:02.042 longer to dive in with Rebecca Griffith, 00:22:02.063 --> 00:22:02.663 the EDDPT.