How to use chatGPT to find your genius and build systems for success. Strengths + Blind Spots.

What happens when you stop trying to be good at everything and instead design your life around what you're naturally brilliant at? Today we dive deep into the revolutionary concept of knowing your genius and strategically organizing your life around it to achieve success that only few can dream of - empowered by AI genius. Breaking coffee plungers might seem like clumsiness, but what if these "flaws" are actually signposts pointing to your natural strengths? The traits that make us "elephants in china shops" in some contexts are often the very same qualities that make us exceptional in others. Those absorbed in deep thinking and pattern recognition might break a few things along the way, but they also see solutions that others miss. This episode walks you through practical steps to identify your natural talents using proven assessment tools like DISC, CliftonStrengths, and the VIA Character Strengths Survey. We show you how to leverage modern AI tools to create personalized systems that both amplify your strengths and protect you from your blind spots. The goal isn't avoiding hard work, it's ensuring your efforts flow in the direction where you naturally excel. Drawing inspiration from Yu-kai Chou's framework in "10 Hours of Play," we explore how extraordinary success comes from following your personal hero's journey. Where are the doors wide open for your particular genius? How can you stop knocking on closed doors and instead find the places where your talents are valued like gold? When you operate in your zone of genius, hard work feels more like play as natural as swimming is for a fish. Ready to transform your approach to success? Take the strength assessments linked in our show notes, explore Cho's book, and use AI to build systems that support your natural brilliance. Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

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  Hey guys and welcome back to another Change Wired Podcast episode. Today, you're gonna walk away empowered more than ever with tools, ideas, very practical, sense-backed, something that you can apply right away, so you could win in life easier. Change Wired Podcast, today guys, we explore how to rewire your habits, your systems and your thinking for a life full of impact, alignment and fulfillment. Today's episode is about knowing your genius and, very importantly, designing your work and life around it.

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  We'll talk about why self-awareness isn't just some personal development fluff that your company or maybe your coach make you do, but instead it's a strategy for building a life that works, building a life of worldly success.

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  We're gonna talk about our strengths, guys, and we're gonna talk about how you can learn better and more about your strengths and, most importantly, how to then use AI, among other systems, to help you apply those strengths where it matters the most, bringing you most fulfillment and the most positive impact and value in the world. I wanna start with a personal incident and story. Today, this morning, I broke another, another one, another one of those coffee planters, glass all over, morning cleanup, not the coffee I wanted to make for sure.

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  But the, uh, why I'm telling you this story? It's not the first plunger that I broke and not gonna be the last. And I'm totally okay with that. I'm staying right now with my parents, like, um, my dad might not be really appreciative of this fact, but that is just me. I wouldn't hire myself to sell some crystal in some luxury boutique shop. I'm like a elephant in a china shop, um, absorbed in my own thinking and ideation while making my coffee, uh, not really paying attention to anything outside of me. And that's how you get your coffee plunders, among other things, broken.

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  Which doesn't work if you do end up working in a, a luxury shop selling crystal or expensive china. But this kind of character traits are known to be features of great thinkers and inventors, among which is Einstein, who never said the phrase, but it is attributed to him, "Don't judge a fish genius by its ability to climb a tree." Meaning, we all have our geniuses and different strengths and attributes. When applied to their own contexts, produce disasters, like a lot of broken coffee plunders,

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  which reminds me, you know, they always advertise like, "Oh, it's made of glass, it's so pure." But for people like myself, it's not a feature, it's a bug. Because, uh, a lot of things in, sort of, that surround me end up flying around me, uh, while I'm again absorbed in ideation, thinking, and seeing patterns that nobody notices, uh, creating models and, and systems, bringing clarity.

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  To in systems, systematic simplicity, to where other people just see mass. You know, my clients that I work with, especially who I work with for a long period of time, one on one, they often tell me, Julie, you know, I've never thought about this in this way. Or I love the thing you said, I'm gonna use it. So what I realized, and still, I guess, kind of in the process of applying it fully to capitalize on all the different opportunities in life, what I realized is seeing patterns and things that others miss, and then building systems to put that new knowledge, new insight, new

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  way of seeing things you haven't seen before into practice for people, with people. That's my superpower. And also, again, thinking deeper about concepts and seeing patterns and creating or distilling those pieces of systems which a lot of, which the most of the world will miss, and putting them into some solutions, which then allows the world to function better, or all of us achieve our goals better. So that's my superpower. And as I'm reading yet another book on how to build the fulfilling, impactful, successful

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  life, I dug out all of my assessments, DISC assessment via strengths, inaction assessment, attributes, cliff strength, I dug them all out and I put them in ChatGPT and asked ChatGPT, can you please help me create a schedule? And the way to sell, to offer my work, the way to organize my work and recovery schedule, and even sales conversation, so it feels energizing. And so I apply my strengths to actually, for example, create more business versus.

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  Feeling like it's super, super hard to sell stuff. And because of that, because I use a method that is not my internal strengths or not natural to me, ending up not really succeeding, because again, somebody else said, this is how you should do. My way of selling things based on all of these assessments is collaborative exploration. Basically, I'm having conversations and helping people to see where they're missing, there are blind spots, patterns that they haven't noticed. And then asking, do you want to work on this together and build systems around that? So you get the results that you want and we're going to work on it step by step.

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  And here is the first insight that you can put in place, you can put in action right away and go get the results. And people know that they're going to get the results because they think that they haven't noticed and they somehow intuitively know that that's the missing piece in the picture, in the puzzle that they needed to solve the specific problem or issue to move forward. That is all to say, guys, that more and more, as I'm kind of getting frustrated with knocking on doors which are closed for me and where my talents and genius are not that appreciated. Instead of that, I'm asking myself these days more often, coming up to my 38th birthday,

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  just short, couple of weeks or so, a little bit more than that. I'm asking myself, where are the doors that are wide open? Where are the places where my talents and genius can be used to their most potential? Where can I develop that even more? So it's really like that one of a kind diamond that you wouldn't get anywhere else. Where are the doors that are wide open? And I keep knocking on the doors that are closed, losing and draining myself so much. And this book that I've, I'm reading right now by Yu Kai Cho, one of the leading game designers, he even has a page on Wikipedia.

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  Ten hours game, ten hours of play, I believe that's, let me look it up. Ten hours of play, Yu Kai Cho, I'm looking it up this up till. Ten hours of play unlock a real life legendary success. And the book is amazing because it walks you through the success journey of people who achieved extraordinary success by all worldly measures, from Oprah to Disney and a lot of other people like Gandhi. So he walks you through a system, a model that he saw, because by the way, Yu Kai is

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  also someone who sees patterns and comes up with ideas and creates systems and can envision models, and that's what he's doing for a living. So I find a lot of similarities between myself and Yu Kai. So he created this book, Ten Hours of Play, kind of actualizing, creating actionable model for living out your hero's journey. Each of us in this life is a hero of your own story, of your own journey, with your own strengths, attributes and capabilities and quests and your life's mission for which you are perfectly designed.

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  And when you follow this path, when you follow this model, figuring out your mission, your attributes, your skill set, your allies, your quests, to develop further your strengths and create more value in the world, when you follow this path, amazing things start happening. Not only that, you're gonna feel like you're this fish swimming in waters, going deeper and going up, extracting some pearls of wisdom versus the same fish trying to climb a tree and having really hard time doing that, because it was never designed for that, right? So that is the book 10 Hours of Play:

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  How Unlock Your Real-Life Legendary Success. A lot of stories, great framework, but it misses some things like character assessments, which you need to go to other places, like some of the places where I mentioned, which I mentioned on my blog, some of the best character assessment might help you, for example, to find your strengths and to then apply in life. The V I A Character Strength Survey, the DISC, I'm gonna link them in the show notes, so these are

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  the best proven ways to assess your character strengths, so then you can apply them in your life and parts of them are free, some of them are cost some money, but not a lot. And I believe if you want to have a life of success and truly capitalize on your strengths, on your genius and achieve extraordinary success without feeling like you have to kill yourself and burn yourself out to do that, that is the way to go. You need to figure out what's your mission, what your strengths are, where you can apply them, where they are valued the most like gold. And then get out there and organize your schedule, your work, your relationships around that. And that's

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  seems to be from the history of amazing extraordinary people. That's how you achieve extraordinary success without killing yourself over it. Not that you're not gonna work hard, but that's, as they say, that hard work gonna feel like play, like swimming in water feels for fish. Try go swimming, see how easy it feels for you, right? So you're not exactly fish. The character assessment, three of them are linked in the show notes and another practical takeaway. Pick up the book 10 Hours of Play, amazing. It will give you a great framework of where to look for the missing pieces. So you achieve the success you want and you feel the most fulfilled.

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  Fulfilled and you feel like when you work hard, it's like play. Instead of being draining and de-energizing and burning you out. So pick up the book. Check out three strengths assessments in the link in the show notes. And the last but not least, uh, you guys, again, I think of me breaking another plunger, coffee plunger. I'm just not creating for smaller detail oriented work. Like ask me to do a detailed tax report, not gonna happen, not because I don't understand math or I couldn't do it for some reason. But because just, it's just not my strengths and it gonna feel so draining.

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  And I realized it a long time ago, but it's taken me forever to apply it to my life. And what I did also on the practical side of things and living in the AI era that we are living in. I gathered all this assessment, put it on my, in my chat GPT. And I also gave chat GPT a little bit more guidance, like, you know, following through on detailed stuff is my blind spot. So can you help me build a system with reflections daily and weekly? To make sure that I protect myself from those weaknesses and blind spots. And I also don't train myself trying to uh, do the sales in a push away, which is not my way.

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  And then failing cannot getting anywhere. Instead, help me to lean into my strengths like collaborative exploration. So I actually help more people sell more and get to develop my strengths more to bring even more value. So use chat GPT to create systems which will help you to capitalize on your strengths and build system to protect yourself from your own blind spots and weaknesses. So they don't trip you. And instead, you kind of like build bridges above them and walk over to where you need to go. And all that you said, that is not selfish or somehow avoiding hard work. No, you're gonna be working hard.

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  But on the right things which bring more value and more to the world and more success to you. So actionable steps from today before we jump into them, don't forget to share, review, give it to people that you also would like to succeed and feel fulfilled and happy, creating value in the world. Share with them this podcast and then get out there and keep yourself accountable on doing the strengths assessment and then using chat GPT to put that into action and keep yourself, keep each other accountable on what you do each day and each week on these insights because knowledge is not power, it's just potential power. Then when you use it, that's what you get the outcomes. But share, review,

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  read on all the podcast platforms where you find this podcast and the practical takeaway, pick up the book, that's like additional assignment, ten hours of play to leave out your hero's journey. Number two, check out the links for three most approved and popular, but popular for a good reason, science-backed strengths assessments. You have your disc, you have your Cliff Strengths Finder and you have your again actionable strengths survey. So a couple of them are free, the rest you wanna pay for to get more detail.

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  When you do that, then put them in chat GPT and ask to help you design your work, your schedule, your recovery, your task. Help chat GPT to design systems to capitalize on your strengths and protect you from your own blind spots and weaknesses. So pick up the book, do the assessment, talk to chat GPT to build a system and that's it, guys. Let's be the fish who swims the waters and not who tries to climb the trees. Because again, not only you're gonna create more value than ever in the world,

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  but also you're gonna live the most extraordinary, most fulfilling life. And I'm raising my water to that with electrolytes and thank you for your attention. Until next time, keep growing.