Genius is a daily lifestyle, not a natural gift. Our culture has said, “Oh, Rembrandt and Picasso and the great inventors like Edison, and the great scientists like Einstein and Madame Curie, and the great movement-makers like Martin Luther King Jr.
and Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, and the great industrialists like Henry Ford, and entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak, these people are somehow cut from a different cloth, and they have DNA that we don’t have. We must be ordinary and we must put them up on a pedestal and say they have gifts and talents that we just don’t have.”
If you look at the science and if you really study the research on genius, you’ll realize genius is less about genetics and it’s much more about your habits and what you practice. Genius is a daily lifestyle. Genius is really about your practices and your habits, and your ways of being every single day that, over time, like a necklace of pearls, stack into something invaluable.
