Breaking Through Your Upper Limits and Living In Your Zone of Genius | with Gay Hendricks

🛑 ATTN: Creatives! Get 20+ years of my industry experience, expertise, & best advice on how to design a career you LOVE without sacrificing your health, relationships, or sanity: https://optimizeyourself.me/newsletter/ Ep253: | Breaking Through Your Upper Limits and Living In Your Zone of Genius | with Gay Hendricks My guest today is Gay Hendricks who is a psychologist and leader in the fields of personal growth, relationship transformation and bodymind therapies for more than 45 years. He is the author of numerous bestsellers, including The Big Leap, The Genius Zone, and Conscious Loving. In our conversation, Gay and I talk about what he calls the Upper Limit Problem - a concept in which we ourselves tend to sabotage our own successes, preventing us from reaching our own full potential. We dive deep into how the Upper Limit Problem works in order to better understand where it's coming from and more importantly, how to overcome it. Gay walks us through some of the strategies described in his book, The Big Leap Year, to break through the upper limit problem and reach an area he calls The Genius Zone where you can grow in your own innate creativity and live a more fulfilling life. If you feel that something keeps holding you back from your own breakthrough, I highly recommend that you listen to my conversation with Gay Hendricks as well as read his books, The Genius Zone and The Big Leap Year. He offers life-altering strategies in order for you to end negative thinking so you can live more freely in your own genius zone and creative fulfillment. Chapters: 00:04:04 | What is the Upper Limit problem? 00:10:36 | How Gay discovered the Upper Limit Problem 00:17:06 | How the upper limit problem works 00:21:00 | Where do all the limiting beliefs that pull us back in are coming from 00:24:04 | The four zones of life where we spend our time 00:30:06 | What is the Genius Zone? 00:36:44 | How to find your genius zone 00:44:05 | What if the pattern of the world getting in your way keeps happening? 00:51:28 | How does the Woo Woo factor play a role in the upper limit problem? [RESOURCES MENTIONED] Gay Hendricks’ Books [CONTINUE TO LISTEN & LEARN] Ep252: Find Your Creativity by Finding Your Why | with Dr. Mark Shrime Ep161: Managing Limiting Beliefs, Imposter Syndrome, and all the “Chatter” In Our Heads | with Ethan Kross Ep132: How to Pursue Fulfilling Work and Find Your ‘Calling’ | with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar Ep75: The Four Tendencies’ (aka ‘The Matrix’ For Understanding Yourself & Others) | with Gretchen Rubin Ep216: Chase Jarvis On Building Your Network of ‘A-Gamers,’ Designing the Life You Want, and Fulfilling Your ‘Creative Calling’ Ep03: The Science Behind Success and Creative Burnout (And Why You’re Approaching Both Mostly Wrong) | with Eric Barker Ep226: The Benefits of Mindfulness & Therapy (and How to Know Which One You Need) | with Seth Gillihan Ep217: How to Live a Better Life Simply by Asking Better Questions | with Marc Champagne Ep178: How to Manage An Identity Crisis (Especially When You Know You’re Meant For Something More) | with Erica Wernick ⚑ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ⚑ https://optimizeyourself.me/subscribe/ ツ CONNECT WITH ME ツ • Instagram:   / zackarnoldace   • Facebook:   / zack-arnold-106219028485701   • LinkedIn:   / zackarnold   • Website: https://optimizeyourself.me/