About the Book
It's time to discover your hidden genius--and embrace your life's work. Featuring access to the innovative YouScience aptitude assessment, Your Hidden Genius reveals your innate talents, interests, and personality traits along with the infinite paths that can lead to your utmost happiness, career success, and personal fulfillment.
"If happiness, success, and fulfillment are your intended destinations in life (and who doesn't want those?) Your Hidden Genius is your express-lane ticket." --Adam Taggart, entrepreneur; president and cofounder, Peak Prosperity; and author of Finding Your Way to Your Authentic Career
Do you love brainstorming sessions and juggling multiple assignments, or are you happiest when you are given space to concentrate on a single mission? Are you a three-dimensional thinker who enjoys tangible projects, or are you more at home solving abstract puzzles? Would you say you are a social butterfly who talks to everyone, or someone who prefers a quiet, focused group to large crowds?
Your Hidden Genius provides a custom-made road map to what makes you special, revealing your distinct combination of natural talents, interests, and personality traits--a mix as unique to you as your fingerprint. With the instant appeal of Enneagrams and Strengthsfinder, Your Hidden Genius instead focuses on scientific testing rather than self-reported answers as a means to unlock your potential.
Included in the book is access to the groundbreaking YouScience aptitude assessment, a series of gamelike exercises that distill the science of aptitude measurement into a ninety-minute online experience, then pairs your results with its robust and proprietary career database. You'll uncover new opportunities for work and leisure that suit both your interests and your talents.
Betsy Wills, cofounder of YouScience and a pioneer in aptitude awareness, and expert career coach Alex Ellison joined forces to write this essential life and career guide based on this cutting-edge assessment and take a deep dive into different aptitude profiles and in-depth context for how to interpret your results. Whether you're just starting out or pivoting mid-career, Your Hidden Genius will guide you through today's complex and shifting professional landscape and be your indispensable resource through every twist and turn of the road.
With science-backed results, real-life stories, and rare insight into you, Your Hidden Genius explains why self-awareness is the most important step toward a fulfilling and meaningful life.
About the Author :
Betsy Wills is the cofounder of YouScience, a national online psychometric-assessment service based in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a regular guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University and at New York University Stern School of Business and has been a featured speaker for TedX Women. She is also the Director of Marketing and Branding at Diversified Trust, a wealth management firm. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice and the Music City Center Authority in Nashville, Tennessee. Betsy is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and holds a Master's of Education in Human Resource Development from Peabody College. She lives in Nashville.
Alex Ellison is an education consultant with a private guidance counseling practice, which has enabled her to work with schools, nonprofits, and families across the country. She writes and lectures extensively on the subject of careers and college readiness and has been a featured speaker at SXSW and TedX. She is the author of Go Your Own Way: 7 Student-Centered Paths to the Best College Experience and the creator of the Go Your Own Way Student Archetype Quiz used in schools and by individuals to jump-start their college search. Alex holds a degree in German and business from Northwestern University and a Master's in Public Policy from the University of Nevada. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Review :
"Connecting you to 70+ years of research and an aptitude-based guidance system, Wills and Ellison give untapped potential a voice, a stage and hope. Illuminating talents and personality assets, they greatly advance a movement of millions designing a life rather than living by default. With them, write the story of being your best while confidently navigating a lifetime of role transitions." - Rich Feller PhD, LPC, JCTC, a National Career Development Association past president, Colorado State University Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Eminent Career Award Recipient
"Schools, universities, corporations and nonprofits are hyper-focused on producing better learners and employees. Yet they rarely understand that the keys to success are hidden in plain sight: helping their students, faculty, and staff understand themselves better. Your Hidden Genius reveals the keys in our aptitudes and personalities that can unlock our talents." - Dr. Milton Chen, Executive Director, Emeritus, George Lucas Educational Foundation
"Your Hidden Genius is the book every working person needs. Whether you are looking for your perfect first job, your fulfilling last role, or greater success in a position you are retaining, it is an essential tool that will scientifically help you identify your hidden preferences that are stumbling blocks unseen, and catalyst when well understood." - Alice Randall, author, professor, writer-in-residence and Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
"If happiness, success, and fulfillment are your intended destinations in life (and who doesn't want those?) Your Hidden Geniusis your express-lane ticket. It unlocks the natural gifts you were born with. Once you know clearly what they are, you can (finally!) align your career to take full advantage of them." - Adam Taggart, entrepreneur, president and cofounder, Peak Prosperity, author of Finding Your Way to Your Authentic Career
"Understanding your aptitude profile is essential for knowing what careers, industries, education, hobbies, and projects will best reflect your talents and provide the satisfaction we all look for in work and our lives. This book reflects groundbreaking research and the future of assessment testing at every level. Whether you are starting your career or looking for a change 20 years into a job, Wills and Ellison can ground you in your unique capabilities and ways to unlock new doors." - Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of How Women Rise
"Adults of all ages want work that aligns with their potential, purpose, and preferences. Amazingly, Your Hidden Genius--and the accompanying assessment--can tell you what that work is. I wish I'd had this revealing and empowering book when I was starting my career." - Meg Jay PhD, author of The Defining Decade and The Twentysomething Treatment
"[A] powerful, state-of-the-art science-based toolkit to objectively uncover your unique profile of natural abilities. If you're unsure of what you're good at or wondering if you may have fallen into the wrong career, get this book, it will change how you think about choosing your life's work." - Anthony Spadafore, co-author of Now What? The Young Person's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career
"For those searching to connect their unique interests and strengths with a career that is true to who you are, this book can help you chart that path!" - Mike Marriner, Co-Founder and President Road Trip Nation
