All transitions from one level of mental capability to the next can be hard. For high-potentials, who go through more transitions than normal people, they can be down right terrifying because they feel like a complete emotional breakdown.
Details Matter If You Want to Succeed
You can make money by taking advantage of people’s arrogance that the small stuff is idiot’s work. Sweating the details means raising the level of work up, not dumbing it down.
Why Psychotherapy Can Be Worse Than Not When You’re A Hidden High Potential
I recently had an exchange in another site with “Marcy”, who talked about some judgments that she had about some of her previous therapists who didn’t fit with her. (One of her old therapists, with whom she did good work, wrote a book with Warren Rule. I think this says a lot about her.) She was trying to find a …
Best Secret For Succeeding When You’re “Smart”
t being August, I thought it a good time reiterate the most useful piece of coaching I can give you: do you what you’re good at doing.
It seems so simple that feels almost insulting to receive as advice: Do what you’re good at. It seems like such a truism.
Except that so many high potentials just don’t see it.
Reduce Career Risk By Moving Closer To Danger
There’s a reason why I talk about so many different ways of looking at your career, things like Levels of Work, the 7 Languages of Achievement, domains of work, and even personality differences. It’s all about helping you stop making career decisions that have almost no chance of working. For you. Because, you see, what’s risky for most people is …
Why Society Tries to Destroy Its Hidden High Potentials
It always surprises me that caring, thinking people don’t seem to understand the problems of hidden high potentials. I had to stand up (again!) for a friend at his wedding this last weekend. He’s German and marrying my sister-in-law, so it’s been more work than usual. I’ve stood up so many times I could write a manual on it &emdash; …
Even in the Library, Biggest Person Takes the Heat
Did you know that if you have more capacity to do work than the people you work with, they’ll oftentimes respond by addressing things to you even though you’re not the boss? I’m busy putting the finishing touches on the launch of a new program Overachievers or Adult Underachievers, people who are not doing a role that is big enough …
Working Where You Don’t Fit Can Make You Sick
Let’s return to something Mary wrote in a comment about my post, “Knowing Who You Are Can Get You Out of Underachievement“: When I read “Underachievers, Are You Simply Out of Flow” and then Andrew Olivier’s “Our Working Journey and Stress”, I could hardly believe my eyes. I diagnosed myself immediately. I have been on 2 sick leaves, the last …
“What’s With This ‘Coding’?” A bit of personal manifesto
One of the problems with having grown a blog out of one’s own thoughts (and conversations with friends) is that the early stuff always looks a little questionable. Last time, I linked to a post from 2004 October in which I used some of the technical language about the Capability of Information Processing coding. The language rightly raised some eyebrows. …
What You Might Do vs. What You Can Do
I have been muddying up the difference between what you can now do and what you could do now, say with the right training; between the size of your capability bucket and how much is in it. One is current capability while the latter is your current capacity. Glenn Mehltretter of PeopleFit reminded me in a comment he left on …