Evaluating Ideas

The imagination is forever envisioning new things: new ideas, new concepts, new plans. The imagination tends to work best in a non-judgmental environment, with free-flowing creativity. It’s free to brainstorm new ideas. Here’s an example of how the imagination...

Engaging with a Medium

Every medium presents opportunities for us to engage with it more thoroughly. Architecture and the visual arts allow us to draw or paint to engage. Public speaking and writing allow us to read aloud. Music allows us to sing, as a musician or composer.  [Glenn...

Building Skills

Skills are part of a genius’ foundation. Excelling in the production of demonstrable works in a field is the measure of skill, whether those works are flute performances or academic journal articles or products that will help reduce global warming. Attempting to...

Is a Genius Born or Made?

Are geniuses born or made? This is a key question if you’re trying to do something big in the world.   [“The first study for the man that wants to be a poet is true complete knowledge of himself: he looks for his soul; examines it, tests it, learns it. As soon as he...

What is Genius?

[“The roots of genius are in the Latin root genio, which translates to creator or begetter. Interestingly, though, the creator was not a person but rather a guardian spirit (daimon) assigned to a person and meant to govern his or her fortunes and protect the family...