Unlocking Your Superpowers: How the Kolbe Assessment Boosts Your Potential

Hey, what's happening? Joe Fear here? In this episode, I want to break down an assessment, one that I feel like every business owner, every founder, entrepreneur, anyone who is a person doing human things. So basically everyone. But specifically it's really helpful if you want to understand the superpowers that you have. Ultimately it's not your strengths or weaknesses or like that kind of things. You probably have seen some of these things like the disc assessment or the Myers Briggs. Well, this one is different where it actually tests your, your, the ways that you act not with your thinking, not with your emotional side, but your instinctual side of things. So I'm gonna break it down. This is great for interacting with people, communicating. It's also how you can work and basically make your time expand. You know, do the right things and not other things to harness your better energy for everything. Communicate better, hire people, expand what you're doing, communicate with clients in a better way. I'll show you exactly how to do it and walk you through what this is.

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And you may or may not have heard of this, and if you have, well, if you haven't taken it yourself, this is the episode for you and why it's so important and why it's. Honestly, it's a little paid assessment. It's only $55. I think it is extremely valuable for any. Like I said, any entrepreneur, founder, anyone who wants. Like yourself, I'm sure you want to figure out, like, what are the things that you. You might be aware of, but you might not be aware of because you're maybe overthinking or you're. You're kind of letting your emotions kind of gauge where you should live, or you're just not harnessing all those things, you know? So Justin, just going back to that really fast, this episode, he breaks down how a lot of visionaries, which are starters and founders and entrepreneurs, a lot of us are visionaries, how we think, but also a lot of the hurdles that we dive into, a lot of the times without thinking. So the journey of a visionary and also bigger. And this is where Colby comes in, how we can tap into our intuition to get out of our brains and into more of our heart, into the way that we, you know, it's like the whispers that we might get when we're away from a computer or away from people. But, like, what's the intuition? The things that, you know, that you should be doing or focusing on or not doing. This is typically what the Colby assessment will help you identify very clearly. So I'm going to walk you through that. You got to check it out. And I made a quick link, and this is going to be for your reference. You can sign up for it if you want. It's also a way you could just test it out. You can see what the questions are. Like, if you go to hustleandflowchart.com Colby, that's K O L B E. But before you know, I even say, like, hey, go take this. I want you to listen to kind of the why this is important, but also how it analyzes what you end up doing. This assessment, it's a 36 question assessment, takes maybe about 10, 15 minutes. The questions are honestly kind of odd. But the whole point is that it gets you to intuitively think, okay, in this certain scenario, like, if I were solving a difficult problem, I would rely on, and this is a most to least. Is it your skill, research, ability to structure, or is it experimentation? So that's a more or least kind of thing. So you'd select them. All the questions are different. We're not gonna go through those here. But the point is, is to take what you are thinking in your mind and also with your emotions, like how you react to certain situations, and then pairing it up with a third thing, which is how you will act in those scenarios. And that's typically your intuition or the, the thing that gets you to act. You know, there's an optimized way that we all operate and we're all different. Visionaries are ones that operate typically in a lot higher quick start. That means they like get into action, they experiment quicker, but the follow through them actually implementing and doing things. And this is me included, which I will break down my score so you understand where I'm at and maybe you'll relate. You know, we're not the best at sticking with the system and doing things for a long time or building things from scratch and then sustaining. Maybe. Maybe it's great to get off the ground. Like a lot of us visionaries, you have the vision and you figure out a plan to get started quickly. But we need to rely on a stabilizer or integrator, someone to help pick up the pieces or at least decipher our wild ideas and put them into a plan, into a system, in something. Maybe they do some more research for you where you don't do as much. Or maybe you're listening and you're like, yeah, I work with, with visionaries, or I know a lot of them. I'm not that. Maybe you're the stabilizer. Maybe you're the one that, that gets to be that valuable person in the relationship. Or maybe you communicate differently once you understand who's who. You know, it's this really. It opens up the doors to how you communicate with your team, with partners of yours, with your clients, also with your spouses or partners at home. That's. I've had my wife take a test and the Colby assessment, and it's great because we're similar, but at the same time, she is my stabilizer. I'm a higher quick start, she's lower. So she curbs my enthusiasms. Little pun intended there. And that makes for a good relationship. Now, if there's too many quick starts or too many stabilizers that can lead to, you know, kind of not so perfect scenarios in. In whatever you're doing. So just know that that's what it's all rooted in. And now I want to walk through what the Colby is itself and also what some of these deeper meanings are. So I'm just going to start by showing you what MyColby is and at a very high level. And again, you can go to Cole or sorry, hustleandflowchart.com K O L B E and you can get started for yourself. And once you pay the 55 bucks, that's. This is the page you will get after you complete the two test the results. So me, I am a 5, 3, 9, or 9, 3. So 5, 3, 9, 3 and what that means. So what is it? The five. These, each. Each of these are from a range of 1 to 9 or 1 to 10, I think, ultimately, but I think it's a 9. Point is here it is fact finder. I'm a 5, basically middle of the road, and there's deeper meaning to these numbers, so I'm going to dive into these. The three is a follow through, so that means I'm lower on follow through. As a quick start, I'm a nine, so I'm basically maxed out. And as an implementer, I'm a three, so a lot lower in that. In that regard. Now, getting into this stuff here, I'm showing some visuals, so if you aren't on YouTube, I'm just going to shout out the YouTube channel. Go ahead over there. If you're not, just look at my name, Joe Fear F I E R and hit the subscribe button, if you don't mind. And you can watch what we're doing here because I'm showing some visuals. I'll talk through it, though. But there's a lot of visuals on the Colby results, which is really cool. So before I dive into the numbers themselves, I want to skip to this thing that, that they define that's a little different than normal. So they're the three parts of the mind is how they break it down. And Colby focuses on this thing called conative. Now, cognitive is a way of doing. It's part of the mind or the body, I guess, the whole makeup here. And it's kind of like what Justin talked about. A lot of us live in the brain. Which part of the mind that's one of the three parts is cognitive. So the thinking part, that's your iq, your skills, your reason, Knowledge, experience, education, all the thinking stuff. A lot of us stay in the thinking and don't allow other things to help guide our actions, because ultimately we want to move, we want to put stuff into action, get stuff done. So there's. The thinking part is one of the three parts of the mind. The second part, in whatever order, you know, this is all kind of mixed together, is called the effective. That's with an. A effective part of the mind, which is more the feeling side of things as your emotions. So things like desires, motivations, attitudes, preferences, emotions, values, and, you know, the feeling side of things. Just imagine, anytime, like a lot of us can, maybe we run more emotional, maybe we run more thinking, and neither wrong, nothing, but, like, just think about how we can change in terms of our thinking if we're stressed, if we're, you know, whatever things are affecting us. Our emotions can also change in the moment, from environment to environment, scenario to scenario. And there's this third part that I feel like really ties everything together, and that's what the Colby focuses on, which is the connotive, that's more the doing. So what are the things that drive you? What are your instincts? What are your. The necessities of you, like, you as a human, the mental energy, like, how do you consume energy? How do you feel when you consume that energy? Doing specific tasks or talking to certain people, doing things, the innate force within you, like, what gets you to go, what are your innate talents? Like the superpowers inside of you? So those are the three parts of your mind. And just having that in mind, that's how the Colby fits in, is right there in the cognitive side, which they claim is kind of the lost piece. Is that getting out of your head, getting out of your emotions, but really into your instincts themselves? 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I'm an explainer is what it says. I agree. I kind of over talk sometimes. It's probably why I have a podcast. I teach, but I'm not a simplifier and I'm not specific in terms of like step by step by step. I'm not that. So I'm kind of in the middle of the road. I'm an educator. I kind of blend both of those. So I'm a five. Follow through is more of how I arrange and design things and how to actually like do stuff. Now I'm a three. All on that, which is more the adaptation part of things. Like I adapt to things I'm not maintaining and I'm not systemizing. I'm not, I'm not the one for the long run to just do the same process over and over. I'm more in the like, I'll try something new. I'm quick to adapt to new things. Maybe not too many new things at once, but enough new things. I'm comfortable in doing that. So my number's three there. Not all of us are there. Sometimes you might be higher than. This is where it's like through the assessment you start to this is doing its magic work its algorithms to figure out what these numbers are and where you lie. And it gives you a lot of actionable tips based off of each of these. I'm just gonna kind of keep it surface level for the sake of time. So quick start. I am a nine. A lot of visionaries, as Justin Breen was talking about in the episode that earlier, is that a lot of visionaries, innovators are high quick starts. So nine is where I'm at. That's the innovate category. You know, surprise, surprise, I'm not the middle of the road where it's modify. I'm not the stabilizer, which is where it's lower on the quick start, which is more like my wife, for instance. Or maybe a good implementer in your business, your project manager, your ops person, your CEO might be more the stabilizer, your business partner. You know, these are all things to consider people to surround yourself with. If you feel like you're a visionary, go, go, go. You know, thinking all the new ideas all the time, testing out new stuff. Well, find that person in your life that can stabilize things out for you. Implementer. So this is how you actually like tangibly do stuff, how you handle things in space. And like a lot of us keyboard warriors behind here are not great with our hands. That's not all the case, but I'm more the envisioner. So like think of what's possible, think of scenarios, what if scenarios and like start to put it out there. I'm not the one in the middle where it calls restore, which is a little bit more of like middle of the road or the one that demonstrates very specific steps on like, you know, like building out something beautiful from scratch, be it with my hands or coding or you know, a design from scratch all the way to finish to the finite detail. I'm more the envisioner, big picture and then honing things in. So 5393 is mine. Yours is probably different, but, you know, maybe similar. So I'm going to go through and you can see there's some tips they give you, the do's and don'ts, which are really cool because it basically starts to dive through each of the fact finder, follow through, quick start and implementer, like what you should not do and what you should do. Something else I wanted to point out is that we all have different energy. Like we all have, they call them ergs of mental energy. So, you know, we, we have only so much in us to give. And what it tries to do is it visualizes how you can use your energy to best suit your superpowers, you know, and be the rock star you are. So for me, it's like it basically breaks it down and says, hey, your explanation, you like the, the. What is it? The very first piece, which is the fact finder, I should be using about 25% of my energy there now on the adaptation, which is the 15% and that is the more the follow through side of things, that is only 15%. So the follow through is low and that's okay. And this is the thing is like sometimes we beat ourselves up that we don't follow through with all the things that we say we're going to do well. And this, honestly, this visual and taking this assessment, I've taken it a couple times over the years, it's okay, because this is why we delegate, this is why we have AI to help us do some automations, adapting and following through with things. Maybe it's us just setting up the systems or communicating with our team, doing meetings and stuff like that, but not spending a ton of time there. For me, 45% is innovating and that's actually, you know, doing the quick start thing. And probably, you know, most of my energy goes there because that's it's going to be what feels best and what I'll do best. And then envisioning is more 15%, which is the implementer for me, and that makes up for the energy. Another one last piece here is how I use my time. So this is something I've always struggled with, is time management being too perfect, which Justin called out me on the podcast, is a lot of perfection. I would say that's where I'm the worst a lot of times. And I'm racing the clock. I literally have a timer right now that says one more minute and it's gonna ring. So I gotta wrap this puppy up. So it says when I'm spending time on things, do it in this order. Do it as a quick start first, then the fact finder, follow through and then implement her. So it says basically use your strengths to your strength. First is solve the problem by brainstorming, and then next review the data, then look for shortcuts, and then fourth, visualize solutions. And that's where I feel like I'll never have, you know, basically like I'll never have enough time. If I'm working against the grain, this is how it solves it. So long story short, take the colby, I got 30 seconds on my timer, so I'm racing the Clock. Take the colby, go to hustleandflowchart.com Colby, I promise you're going to get some major insights and also a tip. Hot tip is take this to chat GPT your number. So your number. Take your number. And then maybe have other people in your maybe clients or on your team. Put the number in there, your partner, and see how compatible you are. Start saying, like, hey, where. Where can I have red flags? How can I do better? And then, like, start mashing numbers up. That's where it gets interesting. My timer's gonna go off right now. I gotta go. Bye. All right, until next time. Seriously, though, like, this. This is awesome. I think for me, my big takeaway is, like I was saying, not perfecting, not. Not trying to be everything, not beating myself up for the lack of follow through, which I've done for years now. Maybe you have as well, especially if you're a quick start. A lot of us, like, I was just chatting with a friend today, I won't name you, but maybe you're listening because, you know, I'm recording this episode is when you're doing a lot, sometimes things just start to fall through and you start to get overwhelmed. And typically, that quick start might get the best of us as visionaries. And this is where we really need the support of systems or people who know systems that we can trust to. To help us follow through and implement things where we kind of can't shore that up ourselves. And then we end up beating ourself up. And that's. That's not fun. And I can get to really stressful times. So this is where the Colby has helped me not only identify my strengths and weaknesses, but find people around me to help shore up stuff so everybody wins. That's the idea. So again, hustleandflowchart.com Colby Also, another one I want to shout out is Hustle. And I'm going over my time. I know, is to go to hustle and flowchart.com One thing that is O n e thing and just tell me what you want to learn. Like, what do you want to hear in this podcast? I want to hear from you. Any specific topics. It's just a one question form. You don't need to put your name or email. You can if you want. And I just want to hear what you think. All right, Till next time. Thank you.

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