The Genius Project - a 7 year study of nearly 200,000 individuals - revealed the two defining skills that differentiated the top performers from the rest.
Originally, Jay Niblick's psychometric profiling company 'Innermetrix' were looking for a correlation between certain competencies and high performance. Thankfully, there wasn't a strong link between any natural talent and high performance. This means that high performance is within everyone's reach.
What the study did find however, were two acquired skills. The top performers had a high level of these two skills, and the lower the level of performance, the less these skills were present.
Those two skills were self-awareness an authenticity.
- Self-awareness: this is an accurate understanding of what you are good at, and perhaps more importantly, what you are not good at. The average level of self-awareness was 57% across the study. The 5th level performers (what we called the Genius level), typically had around a 90% level of self-awareness.
- Authenticity: this is a measure of how true you are to your self-awareness. A high level of of authenticity means that you do what you are good at, and don't do what you're not good at. The top performers had around a 90% level of authenticity.
The good news, is that these two skills are acquired skills. With some work on self-awareness, and some focus on authenticity, we all have the potential for Genius performance.
To find out more about the Genius Project, visit http://www.whatsyourgenius.com/
~ to your Genius!
Paul.
