Amina AlTai

So in reality, everybody has a zone that they are off the charts brilliant at.

where we don't have to push force or effort.

It's just innate.

Our gifts kind of flow in that space.

And I always use the example of a child who's a musical virtuoso because they come to the planet with that gift kind of, right?

But they have to keep honing it and getting better at it to really like live into the genius.

And that's available for all of us.

But I cannot tell you

I think it must happen in virtually every coaching session.

I cannot tell you how many people I've sat across from and they are just incredible humans.

And they will look at me and say, I do not have a zone of genius.

And I'm literally like looking at the gold medals in the background or like I see the 360 reviews that they get inside of their organization.

And it's so clear to me.

But, you know, the way that we've come to understand genius, I think it's part of the problem, right?

We think that it's only high IQ scores.

We think that it's only STEM, right?

Yeah.

And when I was researching for the book, I traced the lineage of the word genius all the way back to ancient Rome.

And it was often a hero and rarely a heroine.

And there was a study that was done by 92nd Street Y, and they found that girls as young as six think that genius is a male trait.