How To Know What You Were Wired To Do

[@suppiD]

Three Wires: Talent - What we do really well Passion - Role/type of work we really enjoy Mission - This is what I want to produce/what motivates our results Breakdown of the 12 talents: - Communication - Compassion - Connection - Discernment - Execution - Imagination - Inspection - Instruction - Justice - Logic - Organization - Persuasion

[@grange172]

How do i get on the phone with Ken? I'd love to get his input on my situation

[@bryan_witha_whyy]

Yes this is very true. Work sucks regardless but it is way harder when you can’t find joy or that it’s easy work. You don’t necessarily have to work a passion, but it should be something where you wake up daily with purpose.

[@micahwanner8002]

Ken ,thank you for all the content you create to help us find the way!!😊

[@garrettcal1812]

As a hobby I create tshirts. For the past couple of weeks I've been awakened in the middle of the night with ideas which I write down. I truly enjoy sharing my creations. I'm in a dead end job and the culture is toxic. I feel like a square peg in a round hole. Anyone been in this situation? Thanks

[@stevedavenport1202]

I am one of them. I am very gifted at ideas. I am glad you have an outlet for your creativity. Before the internet, it was very hard to find work if you were a creative type.

[@rickmapson9228]

Adaptability may be the number one for all the wrong reasons. Top management wants creativity. The problem is they don't want it from someone else. Most want yes men who will leave their creativity, discernment, and even problem-solving at the door.

[@wendyhartman-x5m]

So you've met my boss !

[@mystearicanohr9521]

Words coulda come straight from my dad! He worked in the thick of corporate America all my life and his stories…😑. He put up with it for us.

[@Rocko1II]

Jordan Peterson talks about this. He says creativity is useless at the bottom of a dominance hierarchy it is not respected nor tolerated but it is vastly needed the top of a dominance hierarchy The catch-22 is that truly creative people do not rise through a dominant hierarchy. So if you're creative person you need a develop your skills outside on personal projects or entrepreneurial projects and then once you get recognition for your creativity you can have input at the top of a dominance hierarchy that's the way you mostly have to do it. There are a few exceptions great organizations that will leverage creativity but they are the minority and it's never perfect that's always going to be uncomfortable and tedious to a creative person.

[@Rocko1II]

Also adaptability is a corollary to IQ.

[@bsmuds]

This is good content

[@chrisdorman-c5r]

This stuff is worth talking about. I think I get up every morning at this point having developed an inferiority complex to everyone I see on television or podcasts because they seem economically secure, and in demand. My life has not turned out anyway I expected. I completed a BS in mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona in 1995, and an MBA with the University of Phoenix in 2001. In between 1995 and 2000, I was in the U.S, Navy. But American culture has given me the impression it thinks I know nothing. My parents and other immediate relatives have given me the same impression. It is as if some entity has been operating through my parents and other relatives to make sure I have an inferiority complex to them. I had been mostly communicating with people through Facebook since 2021 until Facebook suspended my account. I do not know the specific rules I violated. Anyway, it is a terrible feeling when one has to feel inferior to other people. I am not sure what has been happening. I see my parents most of the time. And most of their content of what they say has been criticizing people they watch on television, mainly with respect to football and basketball games. I do not really want to be around my parents and other immediate relatives, because it seems like the only way to relate to them is to be made to be vastly inferior to them in terms of intelligence, as well as professional success. I am in my 50's, and perhaps my greatest desire is to have a productive life. I just do not know how that manifests itself in practice. I do not have a vehicle, unlike I guess most people in Las Vegas, Nevada. How are so many people able to make me feel so pitiable? I avoid getting a haircut from the girlfriend of my nephew because she can make me feel so pitiable. And it is as if I am supposed to develop an inferiority complex to all of them.

[@tkleo2006]

I’m trying this but the places I want to work are not replying back :(

[@regina4538]

Ken’s the best

[@CreditSolutionist]

He really is!

[@phoenixknight8837]

Great show!

[@shawnsapp6611]

No just want Career I love doing!

[@FUNNYBUNNI1]

What if your strength / passion is something that doesn’t leave money to Live ?

[@joshuacorbin221]

Manual labor is not antithetical to your passion, and, it might be the path rather than the barrier?

[@FUNNYBUNNI1]

@@joshuacorbin221 what? Who’s talking about manual labor? I was talking about musical theater and the arts

[@joshuacorbin221]

@@FUNNYBUNNI1 it's a "why not both" idea.

[@missylks1239]

@@FUNNYBUNNI1 I think there are ways to incorporate the arts and still make money. Theatre is harder. But, a way to be successful and still be artistic now(I believe) is mastering social media/marketing. Social Media management/marketing online is a growing market and if you can be the kind of person that makes jokes, drawings, memes, jingles, etc. that draw people into companies pages then a career awaits

[@timnorthup]

Do you think there’s room for three more talent categories? Artistry (visual, performing, crafting), Athletics (sports, fitness, health), and Task Management (hyper-focus, flow state, juggling many ideas at once) I didn’t see a talent for my ease of learning musical concepts, my ability to hyper focus and easily enter flow states. And I can see that many people (not me) have an uncanny raw ability with athletics/sports

[@christophermcelligott1593]

Well, my talents DON'T include writing reports, preparing Excel spreadsheets or going to meetings. My talents include seeing the big picture through the fog of piddling details, stepping on toes analyzing organizational problems and redesigning processes to GET THE JOB DONE PROPERLY, regardless of time or cost. Trust me, NOBODY will pay me to do that work.

[@jonathanclark2160]

One of the things I encountered in my career was a book called "Strengths Finder." Now I 100% disagree with the premise of this book. Here's why, the book focuses on what strengths you DO have as an individual and professional but it doesn't consider the idea that a person can build new strengths. For example when I first started programming I was awful at it. But over years of practice and work it became one of my strongest skills. I wonder how Ken's test compares to Strengths Finder.

[@stevedavenport1202]

You can't really turn true weaknesses into strengths. You can develop them to the point where they are not a liability, but you won't compete with somebody who is very talented by nature.

[@cpowerdesign]

Is it possible to have two wires? If so mine are the talent of imagination and inspection.

[@joshuacorbin221]

One would ask such a question if this were so

[@harryfieldson]

I'm definitely cynical from the misfortune I've had with companies during my career - but hearing C-level execs say their biggest concern is talent annoys me. I competed against over 100 other applicants for the most recent job I got (now leaving 2 years later), I put in an extreme amount of effort to demonstrate talent and enthusiasm when joining and after starting and for all that on display they had me churning out 3 people's worth of output of utter garbage a teenager could have been trained to make. The vast majority of places I've worked so far in my career have only reinforced the idea that the directors want their clients and customers to think they value things like talented staff, innovation etc. but the reality is if they could take a warehouse full of sweatshop workers on $2 a day they'd snap it up in a heartbeat instead. Never going back to corporate so long as I can help it.

[@karlstrauss2330]

What do I do if I’m mediocre in all 12 talent categories?

[@joshuacorbin221]

The mission, not capacity is the deciding factor

[@karlstrauss2330]

@@joshuacorbin221 I don’t even know what that means lol

[@joshuacorbin221]

@@karlstrauss2330 I guess if it were me, I'd build on whatever potential skills and opportunities I have now. It means talking to people who know me not relying on a multiple choice test. The people who know me best, count on my attention to detail. You probably have a mental block which needs to be addressed ASAP in a professional counseling setting.

[@DEBTFREEMIKE769]

Isn’t this book just a reworded version of your previous two books

[@joshuacorbin221]

I don't think that's really what we're looking at. The first book was networking and repetitive examples of why the network of connections and locations matters so much. ...not so helpful if you lack the self awareness and confidence to take care of people using your abilities, and I found I'm unlikely to use abilities without a worthwhile vision and purpose