Popularized by psychologist and author, Gay Hendricks in his bestselling book,
The Big Leap, “zone of genius” is another term for purpose or passion.
In his landmark book, The Element, British author and speaker, Sir Ken Robinson calls it “your element”. Hungarian-American psychologist and author, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, [pronounced like ‘ME-high Cheek-SENT-me-high] calls it “flow state”‘ in his book by that title.
We’ve all heard idioms like: “He took to it like a fish to water“, and the concepts of time disappearing when we’re in our element. That’s also your zone of genius.
