I have had to look myself in the mirror many times and say "I am no genius." What do I mean by that? I think its someone born with an innate gift and proclivity towards accomplishing their endeavors. They have no problem seeing patterns and trends in impossible equations, they are drawn to particular roads of life easily and are content with traveling up that road to the ends of the universe. They are not troubled with the doubts and anxieties that distract and bother the normal person. A genius has only to turn their gaze upon the world and see a lighted path for them to go.
But, to say truthfully, what is the difference between a genius and a hard worker? To look upon two men at one moment in time; one, that through perseverance and long years of toil comes to one realization, and the other, through a glance at some disparate object comes to the same thought; are they the same? Do they differ on some level of intellect or ability to reason? Not if they both arrive at the same point. Time then? Yes the genius may flow through the setbacks that keep a normal man traveling so long. Is it an excuse? A reason to fail, to say I`ll never be great because it doesn`t come easily? Never. Yes, I`ll concede that what I would call a Genius is someone who can not only see multiple sides to an idea but can carry the natural progression of that idea forward in time, back into the past to its roots and even make irrational jumps in logic to arrive at amazing thoughts.
But someone who excels at hard work, who is dazzlingly good at perservernce and disclipine and who, though not having an intuitive grasp to life`s connections, can through repetition see the lines hidden to most of us. So I say don`t worry about not being natural at something, seek through practice what is natural and train that.
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