From early on, we’ve been taught to listen to our teachers, to not question the authority of our scientists, and to accept explanations – not so much because they couldn’t be questioned, but because you were supposed to be a polite kid and you were supposed to not be disrespectful of your elders… Your teachers, your bosses, and finally, your colleagues. Questioning things sounds easy enough, but when you feel impolite and disrespectful when the first question arises into your mind, you stop yourself and scold yourself for having “bad thoughts” about someone else.

You may feel bad about something, the way you’re treated or the way things are done at the moment, but since you need to be polite, you stop that complaint on its track never finishing the thought, never figuring out WHY you felt bad in the first place. 

Let me tell you – it was important to finish the thought.

For instance, men feel this stopping emotion every time they start feeling oppressed by the female gender or a woman, but they quiet their objection in the fear that they might be chauvinistic, sexist, or an unevolved man.

A lot of the genius of this world go through their lives AVOIDING thought. That is a true setting in their mind; avoid thought. Do not question, do not rock the boat, do not make a sound. The reason for this is that we learned early on – even already in a previous lifetime, to avoid raising questions. The reason why we learned to not make a hiss is because the less intelligent find change and disruption of the known unnerving. They take a long time to adapt to a new situation because their intellectual capacity is slower, they connect the key points slower – and often, the genius are too hasty in explaining to them why the change is necessary because they assume it is blatantly obvious why the change is necessary. The change happens, the less intelligent are fearful that it is all going to go wrong now because none of this has been tried before so it must, and they stall, they insist on the old and do their best to stop the change from happening. They feel like a lot of the change is a leap to the unknown and it’s a miracle the world has survived for so long!

Part of the process of keeping things the same is to stop the intelligent people from thinking altogether. If they stop thinking and only focus on learning the old, the world is a stable place – not safe, but the same – predictable. The dangers become predictable, and that gives comfort to the less intelligent mind.

Unrealistic idea of one’s own intelligence

The genius are likely to not be fully aware of their own level of intelligence compared to others, and that gives them a warped view on reality. When nothing has ever been complicated to you, you start wondering why people are so lost and why their lives seem so difficult to them when there’s nothing complicated about any of this – they must know something you don’t. The genius gets lost in the world not understanding why the less intelligent function the way they do, and they are trying to find the logic in the behavior in the less intelligent, and smart as they are, they refrain from acting before they figure out what is stopping others when they can’t find logic in the fear itself.

While the genius are still trying to figure out what it is that others are afraid of in a certain thing, the not-so-intelligent have gotten directed what to do at a suitable level to feel they can do it, without questioning what they have been told to do. They simply do as told never wondering why that was the thing to do. As these people move on quicker, the smart can actually feel pretty lacking in intelligence because they are not moving yet, as they want to know that what THEY choose for themselves is the right thing for them, rather than follow the leader blindly like the less intelligent. This may make them feel and seem dumb, as they take longer to make decisions – particularly if they are trying something completely new that nobody has done yet before them, at least, not quite the same way as they are attempting to. Repeating the same stuff that has already been done is, obviously, quicker than starting from the scratch, but intelligent people are not excited about repeating things but about creating their own thing. However, rather than think that they are smart, they think they are slow and stupid, or otherwise incapable, and again, they may do a lot of work trying to stop themselves from trying to achieve something that they shouldn’t expect to be good at.

Feeling stupid and confused and quite lacking is a familiar feeling of a genius.

Giving oneself the permission to think things anew

A major source of frustration to the intelligent comes from observing the world under the false impression that everyone else is as smart as you are. This makes you think that you don’t know stuff because you don’t understand why things are organized so poorly, and why obvious problems haven’t been solved yet. As you think everyone is as smart as you, you think that OK, if they haven’t figured this out by now, the problem must be unsolvable, so you decide to not think about it too hard; look the other way!

“Somebody would have thought of it if there was a solution” is a common way of missing a genius thought, because everyone thinks the same way. The solution may be solvable with college level physics or mathematics, but because the problem is still there, we conclude that OK, the solution seems so simple that surely someone would have tried it out by now, found it to not work for some reason that I am not knowledgeable enough to contemplate, so I’ll just leave it to the experts, and they stop thinking about it…. Just like everyone else before them.

Smart people also hate the thought of “I should know (how to do) this by now but I don’t” so they stop thinking about it out of sheer shame of not knowing how to do it yet. They hate it so much, that they don’t question their own logic necessarily, they might be ashamed of not knowing how to do something they have had no prior experience in at all, but still think they should know how to complete the task at a professional level.

The other reason is the over-respecting another authority, a group of people, or a person… To not offend people by criticizing or questioning their work or their logic (feminism!!), we stop ourselves from thinking about it at all.

Let yourself finish the thought. Trust me, this method makes a person of a normal intelligence smart, a smart person a genius, and a genius a high genius… And so forth. If you remember the estimate that people are only using about 10% of their brain capacity… The 90% must go into avoiding unpleasant and impolite thoughts.

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