A quick self-assessment: are you the achiever or are you the underdog? Is your talent valued by all people or do they think it weird? These two questions are hard-hitting – you can tell whether you are to be awarded with Most Likely to Succeed or if you’ll get otherwise.
Businesswoman Annette Moser-Wellman has written a book called The Five Faces of Genius. In this book, she gives 5 profiles of workers and how they are situated in the workplace. Know this: if you think you’re a weakling, think again. One of the Genius Faces might surprise you – for weaknesses can actually be a source of strength.
The following are taken from the second chapter of Wellman’s book.
The Seer: The Power to Image
“Seers see pictures in their mind’s eye, and these pictures become the impetus for ingenious ideas. In the same way that someone can imagine his team’s final jump shot at the buzzer or how his living room would look with a new color of paint, highly creative people use the skill to of the seer to imagine new ideas. Seers are guided by the images in their mind’s eye, visualize in great detail, and are able to manipulate these images along the way to maximize their impact and expand their ideas. Mozart describes his Seer moment: ‘When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer… provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance.’ The image leads to the breakthrough.”
To be continued…