Sean: Now there are some listeners here may be wondering, okay, how can I do that? How do I know my strengths? What's the next step for them?

Jason: One of the ways that - one of the best ways that you can actually understand what is your strengths, imagine this like, so Sean when you first started doing your work and all that, right?

When you're doing certain things about your work, are there some tasks that you look forward to?

Sean: Yep, for sure.

Jayson: You enjoy doing you look forward to, and when you're doing that task as time kind of stand still, Like "Hey what three hours has passed?" You get great satisfaction as well.

Sean: Yeah.

Jason: Yeah. So all these things are clues to the strengths that you have.

So one best way. And I called it the whole idea of your emotional compass. Let your emotions be the compass of where your strengths are. So give you an example. If you're doing 10 different tasks at work, I can almost guarantee you maybe three are things that energize you. Rest of them you are okay doing, maybe four. The last few, it drains you, emotionally it drains you.

So one best way really is to take stock of all the things that you do. You can be an entrepreneur, you can be a business unit leader, or you can even be an individual contributor. Of all the things that people ask you to do or you must do, what are the things that energize you the most, you feel alive when doing it? And when you feel alive, you must like, when you're doing the task, you look forward to that task. Then while you're doing it, wow time goes past, really fast. You get into this thing called the flow. And when you understand that when you finish that task, you look back, Hey, I want to do more of that.

So your emotions play a great part in understanding how you navigate, what are strengths that you have and what are some of the things that you may be not using your strengths. So use the emotional compass that you have to say that, "Hey, yeah, I do feel energized during this." That's a clue.

And after a while, when you take stock of all these things, and if you go back into time, the last five years, 10 years, and you put in more different tasks that you do, and another 10 tasks, different tasks you've done over the last 5-10 years, you will see a pattern.

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