By Alan Forrest Smith
Can you remember being a BABY GENIUS?
You were, we all were and although you may not be right now, you can be again.
Let me take you back a few decades to when you were a tiny baby. You see what was interesting about you, were you were noisy, you were messy, you made stuff, you created stuff, you danced, pranced and displayed a mind that was as sharp as a razor.
You were a baby genius. That is until, someone started to use this word at you; STOP!
Stop singing.
Stop creating.
Stop making a mess.
Stop dancing.
Stop doing what ‘I’ don’t want you to do.
And it never stopped did it.
In school it was -
Stop dreaming.
Stop doodling.
Stop talking.
Stop thinking.
Stop, stop, stop.
And in your job it carried on and in your relationship it happened! Until the day arrived when the genius in you had become compressed, squashed, flattened, locked-up, repressed and hammered down to make others happy.
Sad , yet so true!
Yet you can be and really are a genius. You know it’s in there you’re just not sure how to let it out again.
What you think it’s gone?
Here’s what taken place.
The tiny microscopic tricks your brain uses to connect and unleash your genius have been cut under pressure, pressure from those mentioned above.
They are the ones that want you to be like them. Average, dull and stupid. They are the victims to enslavement of the worst kind. They want you to be like them – ‘a conformist’.
And after years of hearing them out, listening to them with respect and seeing them as authority you finally broke under the… continue reading