It’s hard for us to see our own strengths or to reveal our own internal processes. As humans, we’re just not great at uncovering the things we do easily or naturally. We tend to think that what's easy for us is easy for everyone else too, which leads to minimizing our strengths. And, we tend to overlook the steps we took internally to solve problems or overcome challenges because we’ve been doing those very things for so long. We might not be aware of our process, and if we are, we assume everyone else does the same thing too.

As a brain coach who helps teens and adults reach their potential, I thrive on helping people uncover their strengths and internal processes. I call this combo their “special sauce” and have an exercise that I walk them through to find it. The beauty of this exercise is that it takes an accomplishment from their own life and gives them a chance to break it apart a bit to identify what they did to achieve it and how those same steps could be applied to........

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