Are you one of the smart ones? I always love reading studies that show that 98% of all children attending first year of elementary school are genius in areas such as creativity and divergent thinking, but by high school it’s less than 30%. Why is that?
What are we fostering and sabotaging in our rigid curricula?
- What Ivy League did you go to? (MIT – well of course you’re brilliant!)
- What prep or boarding school did you go to? (Wow, how hard but how clever you must be).
- What’s your degree (MD’s are smarter than Nurses or PhD’s as measured by $$).
- Did you win a Nobel prize? (Rare!)
- How much money do you make? (The richer, the smarter).
- How many companies do you own? (Because how wonderful to create jobs for others)
- What’s your job title? (A promotion! Yes you are definitely smart and deserved it more than the others).
- How many rules did you break in your privileged class and get away with it? (Of course, my parents helped me with their connections, so…)
- And the list goes on…
Where as you are noble or even frivolous if you are in science, humanities, arts such as:
- A school teacher (how noble of you!)
- A nurse (oh, sorry you didn’t get to be a doctor)
- An artist (adorable)
- A scientist (because, well, evolution or climate change doesn’t exist).
- A graphic designer (I’m sure you will be rewarded if you stick out that agency for a while longer)
- A marketer (you do such good work to help out the sales team!)
- And the list goes on…
For me, the smart ones are the curious ones who can see things on a creative scale as much as a logical scale. I see it in my kids. And I see it in my clients.
Your mission to achieve Superhumanness: Be the Creative Outlier. The smart ones are the curious ones. And creativity spawns innovation.
Don’t worry too much about a compliance list.
Be kind along the journey and remember, you got this!
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