So the point is simply this, the very nature of doing something that very few people are willing to do means that the majority will laugh at you. Why? Because deep inside, they know they have the opportunity to do something great too and your example makes them feel guilty. Let’s go deeper. At a deep emotional level, it brings up the shame of potential unexpressed and most people don’t know this. This is very deep psychology, but when they see someone as a shining example of mastery, it brings up guilt, it brings up shame and at a deep level of unconsciously, they knew that they were born into this innocence.
We all are born into this ridiculously great potential. We all know, you know this, you have so much more in you than you are currently expressing to the world. You know that you have the opportunity of mastery every day, but it is because of your and my weaker nature that we don’t live it, that we watch too much TV or that we gossip or that we miss opportunities, or that we allow fear versus bravery to rule the day or that we don’t install the habits of mastery.
Here’s another idea. Genius is less about your genetics and it’s more about your habits. We all want genius, but how many people are willing to install the habits that will guarantee genius? And so what do we do? It’s a lot easier to throw rocks at the icons than to do what the icons did to make them so successful.
