Resilient people who think in big-picture terms carefully define their core of giftedness. Most of us will discover that there are three or four competencies to which we gravitate. We can tell stories of how we awakened to those competencies, but even we ourselves are hard pressed to explain why it is this and not that. All we know is that there is a mysterious fervor within us that rises and bubbles when we are in the center of the gift zone.

