Your genius is your power
Your genius is your power. And it is not superhuman. It is not supernatural. It doesn’t set you apart from or above anyone. It may even be the most human thing about you.
In defense of greatness
Antiheroes aren’t ideologically opposed to greatness. They oppose striving for greatness from a place of inadequacy, at the expense of what’s truly good for them and the world.
Try it for yourself, again
A second experiment: bring to mind something unresolved, take ten breaths, then ask what’s the next right thing. Don’t try to figure it out. Just wait, and see what arises.
The big fish
Breath doesn’t just fill our cups. It’s also how we reach the deeper creative knowing David Lynch compared to big fish swimming below the shallows: the quiet voice of intuition that shows us what to create next.
Stellar spectroscopy
Every star is made of the same basic elements, yet each carries its own readable signature. So does every human. Your genius isn’t a copy of a shared template. It’s a novel form that exists nowhere else.
Genius is what makes us human
Creativity isn’t a nice extra. It’s a basic human need and the thread running through all of human history. Cats may have presence without effort, but only humans consciously, intentionally create.
Bringing the future into being
We’re taught to chase knowledge, and some of us cultivate presence. But there’s a third capacity. Knowledge looks back, presence rests in what is here, and genius looks forward, imagining and beginning to create what doesn’t yet exist.
The dual nature of genius
Light behaves as both particle and wave. Genius may be similarly dual: a creative power that makes us uniquely ourselves, and a guiding spirit beyond us, calling us toward whatever the universe wants to bring into being through us.
Genius
“Genius” has come to mean a rare, brilliant few, which disempowers the rest of us. The ancient Romans meant something different: a guiding spirit and a creative power that everyone has. It’s time to reclaim the word.
