Wednesday 14 January 2015

If You Want to be Rich and Happy, Don’t Go to School Summary - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Embrace Your Own Genius

1.      Every child has his or her own unique gift. However, school wasn’t where everyone found their gift.
2.      In every human there is a genius. This spark of genius is smothered by those who nurture, educate and love us the most – our parents, families, teachers and friends. Whether carelessly, maliciously, innocently or ignorantly, this spark can be snuffed out.
3.      I had tracked down people who were considered geniuses in their fields. There was one principle I found operating in each of these people, which was: they used what they LOVED to solve problems they HATED. All of these people were using their gifts – those that came naturally to them – to solve problems that bothered them deeply or in some way totally captured their attention.
4.      If you continuously refining and improving your gift to make this world better, your genius will emerge.
5.      It has been my experience that a person who does not find a way to give his or her gift back to the world will suffer through life with a sense of incompleteness – like awakening every morning to a void and a longing that nothing can fill.

6.      You were born a genius. The school system may or may not have recognized it. May be your parents didn’t either. And maybe even you are blind to it today. But there really is something special and magical about you. This world is in need of people like you who are willing to give their gift.



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