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Thursday, July 03, 2014
Release Your Inner Genius With These 5 Tips
Fast Company | Business + Innovation: In The War of Art, Steven Pressfield explains that the Romans used the word “genius” to denote an inner spirit, holy and inviolable, that watches over us, guiding us to our calling.
Romans defining the word Genius as inner spirit guiding us to our calling seems strangely fitting. Genius is what permits us to do what we love, and yet it lives in the eye of the beholder, truly making it an inner spirit. This article, by outlining the 5 steps to releasing your inner genius, gives us a way to discover this Roman phenomenon. To start, we are told to be mindful. Seems simple enough. The second step, conscious openness, is where the article begins to get interesting. The insinuation is that we must not follow any set guidelines for doing things, we must do what feels natural, not what rules or recipes tell us to. Omnivorousness is also recommended in this article, but not in the eat meat AND veggies sense. We must take in all information of all kinds to truly open up our mind to the full extent of our world. Practicing positive affirmation might be the hardest thing on this list, if only because we as a species are inherently negative, so forcing yourself to look on the bright side constantly might prove to be more than a little challenging. Finally, we must never stop learning. We must even relearn. By forgetting old, we can let the new in, and then let other people and experiences bring us back to the old. This five-stop roadmap just might make a genius out of anyone.
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Romans defining the word Genius as inner spirit guiding us to our calling seems strangely fitting. Genius is what permits us to do what we love, and yet it lives in the eye of the beholder, truly making it an inner spirit. This article, by outlining the 5 steps to releasing your inner genius, gives us a way to discover this Roman phenomenon. To start, we are told to be mindful. Seems simple enough. The second step, conscious openness, is where the article begins to get interesting. The insinuation is that we must not follow any set guidelines for doing things, we must do what feels natural, not what rules or recipes tell us to. Omnivorousness is also recommended in this article, but not in the eat meat AND veggies sense. We must take in all information of all kinds to truly open up our mind to the full extent of our world. Practicing positive affirmation might be the hardest thing on this list, if only because we as a species are inherently negative, so forcing yourself to look on the bright side constantly might prove to be more than a little challenging. Finally, we must never stop learning. We must even relearn. By forgetting old, we can let the new in, and then let other people and experiences bring us back to the old. This five-stop roadmap just might make a genius out of anyone.
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