Clever! Talented! Genius

The dictionary meaning of the word Genius goes like “exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability or tendency” or “person or spirit influencing a person for good or evil”. What makes us different from them? Are we way behind them or its just a mean complacence which makes us mere audience to their audacious acts which are no lesser than mere immortal activities. Where do we find them? Is the act which they perform makes them special or are they born wizards? The fact is it’s the timing which they accomplish their acts into place makes them special. It’s not only the astute intelligence or larger than life performances which make them wow. It’s the sense of commitment or the dedication towards the act they perform, that makes the difference. Albert Einstein failed in his school math test. Beethoven was rejected at his musical auditions. Ramanujan was laughed on his face. Sachin was sent back from Dennis Lillie’s Cricket academy. In one way or other they never doubted themselves or their abilities. They doubted luck, timing or the situations and fought back.

I still remember the Jingle played by Key board player Dileep Kumar who went on to become A.R.Rehman. I still wonder against the act of Sachin’s audacious timing to pluck the ball off the air and sent over the fielder as if he is having all the time in the world to do it. Remember the Larger than life act of Maradona in the world cup dribbling past English players or John Nash’s cracking the code of Russians. I always wonder how these people do these stuff as if it’s a piece of cake to cut past. When I was reading the book “Three mistakes of my life” by Chetan Bhagat there was a character who hits the ball nothing less than a six. The writers justification is that the brain cells of the person work so fast that he can visualize the pace of ball slowly and so he can act faster than rest of us. I don’t know about the influence of action potentials or nerve impulses on the talent or believe it though. One of my friend talked about a theory stating that if a person concentrate on a single thing for 10000 or more hours in his lifetime then he will master that. Yeah definitely true. We don’t need a theory to prove it. All the people above are mortal examples. They practiced, committed to the act as their life’s up on it.

All of us are geniuses within. Its just the factors like Negative mind programming, Focusing too much on short-term, rather than long-term memory or Different learning modalities which makes us different from their genre. Reading books like “You can Win” wont help us. It’s the fire that has to start with in. After all this, one question still haunt my mind

“HOW TO BECOME A GENIUS?”