Have You An Inner Genius?
Many people think others are smarter than they are but in reality, we all have intelligence we can harness for a life filled with greatness
“They’re all very smart in that family!”
Is a phrase I've heard a lot over the years. People say it like certain families are better than others. And they pass on that belief to others when they say it out loud.
But you don’t have to believe it.
Even if it’s true!
So why would you not believe it even if it’s true?
Well, what’s the point in believing it?
After all, there’s no one smarter in one family than a person in another family. Sure there are families that are achieving more than other families but that doesn’t mean a family without a history of doing things well can’t do that too.
Especially if every individual has been declared medically intelligent at birth and was given the chance to go to a normal school.
For sure those that are unable to go to school or have to go to a special school have a struggle on their hands to receive a full-blooded education when they are young. But for many of those people as long as the teachers are good enough and believe in them they can improve and get along okay in life. After all, that’s what education is supposed to be for. To lift up those up that truly need it.
For most people though there are no excuses to be as smart as their neighbor or the family that seem to be the best around.
Because each member of that family has had to work for what they`ve achieved and you will too if you want to make the most of the intelligence you have been gifted with.
Take me for example.
When I left school I wasn’t pressured to go to college. In fact, I wasn’t even expected to. I was the only one out of nearly 200 students in my school who didn’t apply to college or university and the following year I got my rewards because I wasn’t on a college campus.
Instead, I worked several jobs.
It was fun but it was also a wake-up call.
Being honest school didn’t motivate me. I didn’t get why you had to learn subjects again that I`d already learned in my primary school. After all, history was still old and even older by the time I got to post-primary school so nothing new had happened in that subject.
And I knew most of the math I did was not going to be used so it didn’t appeal to me.
Foreign languages never appealed to me because I knew where I wanted to live long term.
And at the time the sciences were taught using chalk and talk by the teachers so unless they were an interesting character I usually phased out and imagined my future instead.
But that was okay too because as it turned out my future was bright.
Although I left school without any specific plan and no one else in my family had ever been to college or university there was no pressure on me either. So the years of daydreaming in class were not wasted. Instead, they were my unconscious thoughts building bricks for the future of what I was going to do in life.
While most others were in fear of the teacher and thinking cognitively about how to pass the next test or state exam I was happy to dream of doing things differently and freeing myself from having to sit tight for a few years until I was old enough to finish school and go about my way.
And the funny thing was once I got out of school and experienced a year in the real world I then went back into adult learning.
But in my mind at that time it was going to be different than being a student in school.
And it was.
Instead of having to go to school and learn a variety of subjects that I didn’t feel motivated to learn I was now able to hone in on one that I felt would benefit me in the future. And from there I kept my head down and studied.
The first part of my new plan was to re-visit the schools where I had spent so many years growing up and being pushed to learn things I wasn’t interested. Because I wanted to see why I was different from others. Odd as that may seem that got my curiosity whetted and rather than seeing it as a time-wasting exercise I felt it would give me a great answer to my questions about why people learned in certain ways.
And it did.
Years later I realized my unconscious thoughts were leading me to where I am now.
They have even pushed me to write this article. And that came from using what I created in my brain when others were busy doing what the teacher told them in school.
Because it had nothing to do with what other choices my siblings made or didn’t make about not choosing to go to college or third level.
It had to do with me.
All of our family were fortunate enough to be born medically fit enough to go to a normal school and from there, they made their individual choices about their future.
For me, I chose to learn about the behavior of people and the way we use our brains. That’s what fascinated me. But even though I wasn’t a great high school student and my family hadn’t gone to college before me it didn’t mean I wasn’t smart enough.
I was.
And so were they.
Because our brain also takes account of our passion and our curiosity of what we want to learn about. When we put intention behind that it fuels the thinking process and this steers our course until we make decisions of our own.
So know you`re smart enough and if you dream it’s only your brain`s way of painting a picture of your future ahead.
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