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Re: Genius

At 06:01 PM 12/1/96 -500, you wrote:
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>Most people try a few singluar approaches to programming themselves
>for genius [since that's the topic...it could easily be success or
>photoreading].  When they don't get immediate tangible results, they
>say the "Affirmation" process is baloney, nonsense, hype, trickery,
>flim-flam, etc.  People need something to carry them until they get
>the conviction of a "true believer."  Religions understand this.

And a few others..

>Sorry, I get a bit passionate about developing belief in anything.
>It's a process....Takes time and repeated correct behavior to become
>successful at turning "I think I can" into I know I can."

The Little Red Choo Choo..?

>Consider the words of the great Carl Gustav Jung in his 1938 work,
>Psychological Aspects of the Modern Archetype:
>
>     Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious.
>     There can be no transforming of darkness into light
>     and of apathy into movement without emotion.
>
>I interpret this as meaning, you can tell yourself that you believe
>until the cows come home.  But, unless you link it to emotion, you
>are not going to turn [transform] your 'belief' into BELIEF.

Agreed..

>And, you need BELIEF to make genius happen.

Or you would quit when you start to think that the affirmation doesn't have
any positive effect..  I spent my early life listening to "You're so Smart",
"You're a Genius" from my parents.. That's what they wanted from me, and I
didn't have any chance to think about whether it was true or not, I was too
busy living it.  One of the things that I have done as I've grown older is
watch the people around me to attempt to see what it was that was different
about me and them.  The only answer is that I believe that I'm smart, and
act accordingly.

Often I have wished that I could live my life without the burden of "being
smart", that I could be satisfied with life without having to satisfy my
intelligence.. My co-workers and I have had discussions about how I'm never
satisfied with my accomplishments, never satisfied with the status-quo.

Genius comes with a price.  The first part of that price is a belief that
you are a Genius, different somehow from all the people around you.  Try
that idea out for a while, it's not a very friendly place.

Wilbur