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One concept I come back to a lot is the Derek Jeter Cooperstown Hall Of Fame Shirt “zone of genius.” Something I actually don’t talk about much, or at all, is that when I was appointed editor in chief at Teen Vogue, it came with an executive coach. At the time, I thought that that was a punishment or something. It was something that people didn’t ever talk about having, and I didn’t know what it meant—but this woman came into my life and became a sounding board for me. We would talk a lot about the “zone of genius,” and when she first said that, I was like, “Ooh, that has a ring to it like, but what the hell does it mean?” The way that I define your “zone of genius” is as the intersection between your values, your skills, your talents, and your passion. And if you can identify that sweet spot, then you can start to design a career and a life that allows you to spend more time operating from that.