Coaching practices for How to Know What You Are Best at

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I honestly can’t tell whether I’m genuinely exceptional at anything or just decent
• If you asked me to name what I’m actually good at, I’d freeze
• I’m pulled in a dozen directions and none of them is clearly the thing
• Left to my own judgment I either think I’m better than I am or get scared off the very things that would help most
• I know there are a couple of things I’m genuinely good at, but I use them just to get by

Practices that may help

1. Reality-check the best-at circle with outside input
   Ask credible people who have seen your work directly whether you have genuine advantage — not people who love you.
   The Hedgehog Concept
2. Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
   Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
3. Map your three circles honestly
   Separately answer each circle — passion, best-at, economic engine — before looking for the intersection.
   The Hedgehog Concept
4. Use a challenge-calibration partner or coach
   Have a more skilled observer set the challenge level — your own assessment is biased.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
5. Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
   Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
   The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self
6. Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
   Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
7. Track the accuracy of your domain predictions
   Keep a record of what you predicted in your area of claimed expertise and score it.
   The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Understood Clearly
8. Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
   Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
9. Identify the specific domains where you are most overconfident
   Calibration is domain-specific — find where your confidence most exceeds your accuracy.
   Calibration Training
10. Map your personal IZOF from past performance data
    Identify the anxiety and emotional state that preceded your best and worst performances to find your individual zone.
    The Zone of Optimal Functioning: Hanin’s IZOF Model

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