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Thought 15 - The Curse of Genius

Currently have a few friends going through some rough times, and they are all smart talented people. So, I'd figure I'd put up one of my observations of the world.

The curse of genius as I see it, is that the world is flawed, imperfect, and broken, that it need to refined, perfected, and fixed. The genius will pursue to endlessly this goal, it is this view that the world could be may better that makes a genius look so incredibly smart and talented to those around them. However, the pursuit has in itself a dangerous flaw, that not everything can be refined, perfected, or fixed. It is upon internal realization of this flaw comes an inevitable choice: Continue the pursuit, the rules be damned, things will be changed! or find a quieter more stable path fixing minor things. I find that the first usually comes with a very high price tag. One, sadly, I decided was too high. The stable path does not mean that interests cannot be followed or world fixed, just that flaws in the world get fixed more slowly, interests are pursued at a walk rather than a run.

I have learned, in my short time in this world, that everything balances out in the end. Everything will be alright, no matter the course of action taken. Sometimes the hardest decisions in life are those that lead to doing less. Of course sometimes we are allowed to change our decisions...

Evidence to the curse of the genius are found all throughout literature and life, starting with the ever famous Daedalus, Galileo, John Forbes Nash. Though arguably successful, for each the price of genius came with a cost.

Recommend reading/watching:
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Tucker
A Beautiful Mind
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

"Fast Cheap & Out of Control" is more inspirational about what we can do, if we continue our pursuits, without regard, whatever it is that we do.

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