What is your Zone of Genius?

Introduction to Zone of Genius

It’s 2005 and I’m going to dance parties all night long in San Francisco. I’m in my PhD program for Organizational Behavior at Berkeley business school.

The program seems like it was suited for people who like to sit down, doing a bunch of solitary, analytical, hard-ass work.

I had the thought I wasn’t a good fit for this program.

I was studying 14, 15, 16 hours a day and to balance it out decided to start running.

I began developing aches and pains. Not long after beginning my training, I couldn’t feel my right leg. Then I could no longer walk. I was in a lot of pain and was devastated.

I couldn’t go to class. I had to cancel presenting one of my papers at a conference in Hawaii.

I had to pause and renegotiate my life. I went to doctors, went to physical therapy, tried acupuncture and a chiropractor, got massages, got an MRI, got cortisone shots, took vitamins and supplements. I tried everything.

It wasn’t until I read “Heal Your Back” by Dr. John Sarno that I began to understand my back pain may not just be physical in nature.

Life-Changing Moment

The book explained that in order to heal your back you also need to heal yourself not only physically but emotionally, socially and spiritually.