Resources for
Personal Growth

Your Hidden Genius and the included YouScience assessment can help you better understand your strengths and skills. With this discussion guide, you'll gain a deeper understanding of your innate aptitudes and how they complement others in your life.

Whether you’re reflecting on your own or working with a friend or a small group, such as your book club, the activities below are designed to help you dig deeper into your aptitudes. Your responses will show how your aptitudes impact how you approach work, life, and relationships.

How to Use These Resources

Through these discussion prompts and activities, you’ll discover your hidden genius!

Before beginning your discussion, you should take the assessment at YouScience.com to discover your aptitudes. Follow these steps to have your aptitudes at hand:

  • Head to YouScience.com and log in.

  • Click on the “Discover Aptitudes” box on the Aptitude and Career Discovery page.

  • In the upper right hand corner, click on “Download Aptitudes.” This will generate a full and detailed 40+ page summary report (we suggest you actually print it out!) of your aptitudes and how to put them to work in all aspects of your life.

  • You can also use the interactive results dashboard to learn more about your aptitudes, personality, and interests.

Image of a woman reading a book at a table with other readers, conveying a book club or small group meeting, with a focus on thoughtful reading and discussion questions.

This reading group guide for Betsy Wills and Alex Ellison’s Your Hidden Genius includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. Ahead of your book club meeting, members should take the YouScience assessment with the code provided in Your Hidden Genius, print, and bring the results. 

Image of an older couple to convey the need for personal growth as new empty nesters

Using Your Hidden Genius as a springboard, this activity guides empty-nester couples through meaningful conversations and activities to rediscover their strengths, rekindle connection, and align individual and shared goals for the future.

Image of a vintage typewriter to convey Storytelling for Personal Growth

This storytelling activity helps you transform your YouScience Discussion Guide* into compelling, real-world narratives about your aptitudes and strengths.