Finding Your Zone of Genius with Laura Garnett

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: Finding Your Zone of Genius with Laura Garnett
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 00:56:53
• Published: 2013-03-06 09:30

A few months back, we had Sarah Robinson here as a guest on BlogcastFM. While we were talking on gchat one day, she mentioned of a friend of hers named Laura Garnett. Laura turned to be full of brilliant insights on thriving in your career. Here are just a few of the highlights from our chat:

• Why Your Dream Job is Something that Doesn't Exist  
• What Enables People to Get Things Done at Crazy Levels
• The Beliefs that Are Key Ingredients to Success
• The Power of Having Challenges In Your Life
• How the Things You Think Are Best for You Can Turn into Bad Habits
• The 3 Distinct Stages in Your Zone of Genius
• Why Famous and Wildly Successful People Are Not Lucky 
• The 5 Keys to Building a Genius Brand
• Why You Can't Blindly Take Advice from People 
• What It Takes to Operate in Your Genius
• Some Amusing Thoughts on What It Would Be Like for Me to Interview Bill Clinton
• Making Money in Your Zone of Genius
• Why You Shouldn't Take On Any Work Just for Money 
• Optimizing Your Web Site to Land Speaking Engagements

Tweetable Insights Include:

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• Having a job that you don't like is a habit (Click to Tweet)
• Your greatest passion is generally linked to a challenge that you've conquered in your life (Click to Tweet)
• When you're building a brand for yourself, you're creating an experience for others (Click to Tweet)
• Get Support not Advice. Advice comes through someone else's worldview.  (Click to Tweet)
• We asses what's possible for ourselves based on what we've seen for others   (Click to Tweet)
• You have to enjoy the process, not the outcome (Click to Tweet)

Resources Mentioned Include:

• Stumbling on Happiness
• The Big Leap
• Flow

Laura Garnett is a talent strategist and leadership activator. Her mission is to create a world where all of us walk into the office happy, confident, and deeply committed. You can follow her on twitter @garnettl. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter. Oh, and we’d be really grateful if you write us a review in iTunes.