The Leader Factor

Excavate Your Talents


Listen Later

Today's lesson:
Excavate Your Talents

Key Points:
The National Endowment for the Arts tells us that the average person possesses 500-700 different skills and abilities. Yet, Gallup tells us that only 10% of people are able to identify their natural talents. Everyone has special gifts, talents, and aptitudes– areas where their potential ability is two or three standard deviations from the mean. The problem is, many of us can’t see them because they are not obvious. No one comes with a list of their talents. They’re all discovered. We all require additional self-awareness, awareness that only comes with additional effort, discovery, experimentation, or in short, excavation.


Today's key action:
Go ask ten people who know you well this question: “What do you think I’m better at than 9/10 people?”

  1. Write down their responses.
  2. See if you can find a pattern in the responses. Drill down, excavate, and then put in the work.


...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Leader FactorBy LeaderFactor

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

35 ratings


More shows like The Leader Factor

View all
Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Hidden Brain

43,566 Listeners

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast by Life.Church

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast

10,731 Listeners

Coaching for Leaders by Dave Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

1,457 Listeners

Good Life Project by Jonathan Fields / Acast

Good Life Project

3,324 Listeners

HBR IdeaCast by Harvard Business Review

HBR IdeaCast

1,833 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

112,394 Listeners

Worklife with Adam Grant by TED

Worklife with Adam Grant

9,193 Listeners

FranklinCovey On Leadership by FranklinCovey

FranklinCovey On Leadership

213 Listeners

At The Table with Patrick Lencioni by Patrick Lencioni

At The Table with Patrick Lencioni

1,130 Listeners

A Bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek

A Bit of Optimism

2,118 Listeners

Coaching Real Leaders by Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Coaching Real Leaders

665 Listeners

Huberman Lab by Scicomm Media

Huberman Lab

29,128 Listeners

ReThinking by TED

ReThinking

634 Listeners

HBR On Leadership by Harvard Business Review

HBR On Leadership

157 Listeners

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast by Civility Media

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast

8,392 Listeners