A Simple Act to Become a Genius
Genius is not seeing something nobody else has ever seen. Genius is seeing what everybody sees and thinking what nobody else has thought.
I don’t think I made that up, but I haven’t tracked down the originator. I certainly agree.
We are taught how to read. We are tested on what we have read. If we fail to give the answer we read, we fail the test. We are trained to memorize and regurgitate. Independent thinking is not rewarded in the classroom.
That process continues through college. We are rewarded for properly programming our brains.
We graduate. We look for employers who value our brain programming. If we have chosen fields that have a match, we are hired. Who hires us?
Often the people who start a company are geniuses. They have thought something that others haven’t thought. They don’t know everything. They need help running their businesses. Some may have a vision and have others fill in the details. I’ve read that Henry Ford had a vision for the V8 engine and his engineers thought it was impossible. He persisted and the engineers figured it out.
Are you a genius? I believe each of us is capable of genius ah-has. You can increase your odds for a genius ah-ha by questioning what you see and hear. Search for truth. Look for evidence on both sides of a situation. What do you think?
Also look for propaganda. What we hear and read as “news” is often slanted to make us act in a certain way. The slant is often seen by looking at the adjectives. Is something big, good, bad, small? Is an effect mild, moderate, or severe? Compared to what? What are the numbers? What does the data tell us?
I like to say, let me control your data and I will control what you think. That is why so many people want only their side of a political issue to be presented. They are sure that their side is right. Therefore, the other side must be misinformation. If it is misinformation, it should not be in the news. Thus censorship.
We see “average people” being interviewed for a news broadcast. Sometimes we see a professor at some university giving his or her insights on a political issue. Ask yourself, why were these “average people” chosen? Out of all the professors in all the universities of the world, why was this one chosen to give an opinion?
Stop your mind. Search for truth. Once you begin to ask questions, you increase your odds of having ah-ha moments. You are no longer a follower. You no longer memorize and regurgitate. You think it through.