Your new goal needs to be to reach this state, and commit yourself wholeheartedly toward it. At this point you’ve reached a state of oneness between your body, mind and your craft.
Then at some point, a force takes over and brings something so special out of you it can’t be described just felt. Genius is tapped when reaching that sustained state of energy and stillness with a fiery mind that produces output at a blistering rate. They’re still, flowing like water, ready to respond like an echo. The best champions in the world are not hyping themselves up. In fact, you want to be so good that game day is just another chance at showing up to perform. The more you care when it doesn’t matter, the less you need to care when it does.
A decision to know you have genius inside of you and that it needs to be brought out. It was General Norman Schwarzkopf who said “shined shoes save lives”. It takes a commitment to excellence in everything, from the way you go to sleep at night to the way you tie your shoes in the morning. It begins with you, how you do what you do, who you’re becoming, and why. The road to genius and maximizing your potential are adjacent, and often leave you lost a long the way, because of the wrong belief systems and principles. Your job is to cultivate that and let genius find you as often as you can. It’s the depth of that output, and where it comes from that makes it genius or not. Genius is simply the result of your state of mind, level of consciousness and capacity for creative output. Maybe you don’t believe you’re ‘smart’ enough, you are.Įveryone has genius within them, it’s their duty to tap into it. Maybe you don’t believe in yourself, believe. His cousin Francis who was considered much smarter than him with a proven much higher IQ, did not. Genius found Charles Darwin because he followed his deep inclination and endless wonder, which created the patience, mental space, activity and focus that brought his theory of Evolution out of him. It’s the difference in having the breakthrough no one else has had in your field.īut it’s also subtle - not dramatic by any means. Tapping into genius is the difference between good and great. The difference lies in their ability to work their creative muscle, find their creative voice that’s confident to produce enough, to then tap into genius every so often. Why your peer puts out an article that are new and innovative and you don’t. You wonder what made Einstein and Mozart special and how they were able to create such works of genius. You wonder what differentiates you and the winners who breakthrough. It awaits only the right circumstances to express it.” - Sir David Hawkins, MD, PH.D That which is universal is, therefore, theoretically available to every man. “Because genius is a characteristic of consciousness, genius is also universal.