If you chose your career with links to purpose and passion, you are likely also choosing to draw from your unique mix of intelligences. The results? Expect innovation at work. The kind such as Xerox announced this week after they developed the first self-erasing paper.
The current climate is an ideal time to make those changes while sluggish systems we work for groan under the weight of not following Thomas Jefferson’s warning…
Our laws and institutions must keep pace with the discoveries of the mind.
People ask me all the time why I do what I do, and every time of start to answer I am stopped by an inadequacy to explain why I direct the
I’m a problem solver and thanks to Howard Gardner’s discovery of multiple intelligences, I find more solutions these days in hidden and unused parts of the brain. It allows me to help others to do the same – and that brings my interests full circle with my work that pays. So, for instance, if clients tell me they procrastinate and therefore lose deals to their competition, I help them to use parts of their brain to map out winning plans, that seemed unavailable to them earlier.
Here’s a quick thumbnail test to check your correlations between what you do at work and what you feel called and gifted to do. It starts with identifying your unique intelligences or strengths.
1. What do you come back to repeatedly, even after others might have given up?
2. What do people tend to tell you that you do especially well?
3. What do you stick with and persist in, regardless of barriers that get in your way?
When you answer those three questions you will likely be looking at your highest intelligence. Then the challenge with be to use more of that at work, or change careers as I did for the opportunity to follow a deeply felt call – one that more than pays the bills. What do you think?
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