Josh Wilson's Working Genius

Your Working Geniuses

According to your Assessment, you have the Genius of INVENTION and DISCERNMENT, which are described below. These are the activities that give you joy, energy, and passion. As a result, you are quite skilled in these areas.

DISCERNMENT

The Genius of Discernment involves making sound judgments relying on instinct and intuition across a wide variety of situations. It entails pattern recognition and integrative thinking, rather than expertise, knowledge, or data. As such, people with Discernment have a knack for and derive energy and joy from evaluating whether or not an idea is sound, or if it requires further tweaking and adjustments. The benets of Discernment are many, even if they are somewhat difcult to pinpoint as a result of the intuitive nature of the gift. They include curating, evaluating, and identifying the best ideas, and avoiding the ones that aren’t good, or rening those that aren’t yet ready.

INVENTION

The Genius of Invention is about coming up with novel ideas and solutions to solve problems and address issues. Invention involves creativity and original thinking, often with little direction. People with this genius are condent and inspired by a problem that has no apparent solution, and they derive energy and joy from getting the opportunity to take a rst crack at coming up with a new idea. The benets of this genius are generally well- understood in society, and include anything related to innovation, novel thinking, and original problem-solving.

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https://www.workinggenius.com/wg-podcast-post/50-working-with-ids

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Your Working Frustrations

According to your assessment, your areas of frustration are ENABLEMENT and TENACITY which are described below. It’s particularly important to know your frustrations for two reasons. First, you will want to avoid spending too much time doing activities in these areas because this usually leads to weariness and dissatisfaction. Second, you will want to avoid feeling unnecessarily shameful or guilty about not being naturally gifted in these areas.

What is your working genius?

Check out the assessment here - https://www.workinggenius.com/