THIS THING WE CALL 'GENIUS'

Over the years, we have been sold the idea that some humans are specially made. That God carefully and exclusively created them on the ‘seventh day’, (after He had fully rested), and branded them, Limited Edition(LE).We have been sold the idea that there are some exceptional beings on the planet and they are the only ones who can achieve extraordinary feats.That a genius is someone who isn’t us…and someone who can do something we can never dream of doing.
It’s a modern invention made by a few people to create a disproportionate kind of value, that comes from the idea of scarcity.

I just don’t agree that some of us are born with something special as compared to others. I would rather believe that everyone is born with whatever they are born with and those things are special in their own rights. And by the individual choices of people, they get to decide what they make of whatever they are born with and sometimes by the interplay of time and chance, some turn out ahead of the pack.
Now, Genius is a thing and not a person. And we get it wrong, when we muddle this up.

See, excellence and stardom is never outside your reach. Just that you need to keep showing up; you need to keep doing the emotional labour of trusting yourself and of being generous in the way you engage with your life’s work; the emotional labour of doing the work that might not work, of choosing to be different and not follow the bandwagon, of taking the path that’s less traveled; of raising your hand to contribute and to solve interesting problems.it is these kind of engagements that makes a ‘genius’.
And on this basis, everyone is one or potentially one.
So now, go release your creative genius! Let it out! Get out of its way!