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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2025-03-24 · 39 min · 6,673 words

1043: How to Uncover Your Hidden Aptitudes and Choose the Work You’re Meant to Do with Betsy Wills

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Institutes you cannot study for. They are innate. So there's actually fifty two that can be measured. For some people, learning a job is harder than actually doing a job. Like acquiring the skill may take them longer and be more of a struggle. But all of us can do anything with practice. But the point two is why would you? We all have things we've got to get competent at, but why spend a lot of time trying to perfect it or apologizing for why we're not the best at it? You will be bored.

And frustrated if you are not using your aptitudes. A lot of people's boredom and depression is oftentimes because of an un developed aptitude. So in the end, this is all about empathy and it's about love. It's about not seeing other people as a broad version of us.

Really valuable information. Mm-hmm. That's Betsy Wills. She's the founder of Youth Science and a pioneer in democratizing aptitude assessments. She's also the co-author of Your Hidden Genius.

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