Two signals reveal your geniusfrom @kolbykirschner

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Most people think genius is rank, but the truth is, genius is usually the thing that feels too easy to you. And there are two strange signals that reveal it. Problem is, most career advice tells you to follow either your skills or your interests. But those change all the time. The real signal is the stuff that has always been tier. And one of the biggest clues is a feeling that most people try to ignore, jealousy. When you see someone online, you feel that little sting, don't push it away. Feeling is usually pointing at something that you wanna express, but you haven't claimed it yet. Maybe you see someone teaching online, building things, creating videos, and inside you always say, I wish I was doing that. That's not rank. That's a breadcrumb. Write down the last three people that you felt jealous of, then ask worse, what exactly about them triggered it? That answers points towards your genius. There's another signal that's even stronger. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied this for decades. He discovered something called flow. It's the state where you get so focused, so lasered, that time just disappears. You start working on something and suddenly two hours are gone. That's usually a sign that you're operating near your natural genius. Think about the last time that two hours just vanished. What were you doing? That's worth investigating. If you haven't had this feeling about something, you're not trying no. You're not getting yourself out there enough to try new things. But your genius usually doesn't feel special to you. It feels normal, easy, even obvious. Those two signals, jealousy and flow, usually point right to it. Once you see those signals, you start noticing them everywhere.