Today's guest
blog comes from my nephew Adam Ketola. Adam is a Chemist and lives and
works in Minneapolis.
I've been reading this book about Nikola Tesla written by Sean
Patrick. The author posts a question in the beginning, "What defines
a genius?" One would think that having a high IQ would make one more
successful to the point of labeling them a genius, but IQ is only a number and
in reality we only need just high enough of an IQ to present opportunity.
So the answer is no, we don't need a high IQ to be successful.
The
next theory is the 10,000-hour rule. The
rule states that by practicing or studying something for a total of 10,000 hours
that is when one will be truly great at something. This seems to be only true for professional
athletes such as Tiger Woods, but not the case for everyone.
Finally,
Dr. Barrios did a study on truly great minds such as Nikola Tesla. What he found was that people who were
successful and considered a genius lived by a certain code. They lived life
on the basis of not what life offered them, but on the basis of how they could empower
themselves to add meaning to life.
Unfortunately,
most people these days live life the way society tells them to. Society
says we need an education and to work hard in order to find a job and that will
make us successful. This is true to a certain extent, but by living by
this code, one will never step out to become a genius.
The
way to becoming a genius is not living the way society tells us, but rather
stepping out, empowering ourselves and making a difference! Everyone has
the capability of becoming a genius, but one must first accept the opportunity.
