Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary

Art isn’t just something that poorly compensated artists do inside a studio. Art isn’t just related to objects. As long as you’re reimagining the status quo—as long as you’re disturbing the peace, in James Baldwin’s memorable phrase—anything you do in your life can be art.

If a child asks you, “How did the dinosaurs die?” resist the impulse to launch into a lesson about an asteroid hitting the earth. Instead ask, “What do you think could have killed them? How would you figure it out?” When they give you an answer, ask them for more answers. Let them see that there’s often more than one way of framing the question and

To discard was to temporarily lose my balance. But not discarding would have meant losing myself.

Spend less time on the “what,” as in Here’s what we’re doing, and more time on the “why,” as in Here’s why we’re doing it. Show your child how geometry and fractions will help them fix their bike. Explain to your employees how the new marketing strategy they need to execute will help land a worthy moonshot. Rally your customers by embedding a purpo

the ability to reimagine conventional wisdom is far more important than the ability to regurgitate it.

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