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There are four zones. There's a zone of incompetence, which things that you're not good at, you should outsource to someone else, like fixing your car. You probably don't know how to do that. There's a zone of competence, things you could do, but you don't love them and someone else can do them just as well as you can, like cleaning your bathroom. Zone of excellence. Now, this is a dangerous one. This is where you're really good at it. You don't like it, but you're really good at it and people are willing to pay you a lot of money for it. And they also really want you to keep doing it because they're dependent on you to get it done. That's the dangerous one. There's a lot of actions that CEOs are taking that are in that zone because they think that it's their responsibility to do these things. When in reality, it's the responsibility of the CEO to make sure these things get done. And then the fourth zone is your zone of genius. This is the things that you do that you are uniquely good at in the world and you love them so much, you don't even notice that you're doing them. You may not even be aware of what these things are because time and space just disappears. You don't even value it. And if you then start to only do the things that are in your zone of genius and spend more and more time on those and take all the things that are in your zone of excellence and start giving those to other people, or you say, listen, the Monday meeting, I've got to be in the Monday meeting. Okay, well, then what would make that super fun for you? And all of a sudden, the meeting becomes fun. So that's the zone of genius idea. You eliminate all the things that are de-energizing because you're not good at them. Or the meeting itself is not fun for anybody if it's not fun for you. And if it's not fun, it's not for you.