How To Recognize The Brilliance Hidden Inside Your Brain

How To Recognize The Brilliance Hidden Inside Your Brain

When I speak in front of groups or have a one-on-one conversation, I often ask, “Do you consider yourself brilliant?” It’s probably not surprising that most often, people do not recognize the Brilliance in them are humble, and they say, “No, I don’t consider myself brilliant,” because they think of people like Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, or Albert Einstein or any person society has declared as being brilliant.

However, a dear friend of mine, Robert Donnell, recently pointed out that there is another way of asking this question, which probably makes it a bit easier for you to get in touch with the brilliance you have but which is hidden in your brain.

I’m Curious

  • Do you think you have brilliance, especially when I reiterate that it means “experience, expertise, and wisdom you have acquired over your life so far”?
  • To what extent do you give yourself credit and admit to yourself that that “brilliance ” is worth capturing and sharing systematically and immortally?

Transcript

Greetings, Dr. Stephie here. When I speak in front of groups or one-on-one with people, I often ask, do you consider yourself brilliant? People are often humble and say, “No, I don’t consider myself brilliant,” because they think of people like Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, or any number of people society has declared brilliant.

However, a dear friend of mine, Robert Donnell, recently pointed out that there is another way of asking questions, probably making it easier for you to get in touch with the brilliance hidden inside your brain.

Let’s rephrase the question, “Do you think you have brilliance?”

It’s a subtle difference, but instead of declaring yourself utterly brilliant, the question is, do you think you have at least some “brilliance?”

Let’s think about what I mean by that. It’s simply experience; it’s expertise and wisdom you have from living, working, and doing all the great things you do. Give yourself some credit, and you might come to this aha moment where you say, “Hmm, I may not consider myself brilliant, but I do recognize that I have brilliance.” I define “brilliance” as experience, expertise, and wisdom.

When you realize you have brilliance, you begin to see that it is worth doing something that prevents it from being taken to the graveyard. I invite you to take the initiative, or else you will take it to the graveyard because many people do that. They’re sharing too little too late because they don’t even recognize they have brilliance to share, or they think they don’t have time to do it because it’s impossible or really at least very hard to do.

In reality, it’s easier to do than it turns out. I developed methods for that, which I’ve shared in many of my Brilliance Nuggets. We’re also applying them in our Brilliance Mining cohorts. I work with people one-on-one as well.

It all starts with recognizing that you have brilliance. Then, the second step is to take the initiative and realize that the alternative to taking the initiative is to have much less growth and much less impact.
Yes, you will essentially experience a double death because we all pass away. That’s unavoidable, but do we have to take our “brilliance” with us? That’s the question. I say, “No, we don’t have to!”

When you make that decision, you get to leverage your brilliance. The first thing that most people think about is money. That’s valid because leveraging your brilliance has a high return on investment. The high ROI is because if you can share the brilliance sitting in your brain with others, you can do so much more together than you can do yourself. It all starts with being able to delegate and freeing up time. It also gives you freedom back and time to think of new things, which, in all likelihood, is near and dear to your heart. Am I right?

It’s time, freedom, innovation, and growth. Then, all that is on the same trajectory as building a legacy. Depending on your age and where you are at with your mindset, you may or may not think about legacy yet. Some people don’t think it’s important. They think, “When I go, okay, that’s it.” Many people want to leave the world a better place than they found it. They want to have what they learned to continue.

That’s ultimately what this conversation is about in the long term. In the immediate term, it is about creating much more impact with what you’re doing and giving more freedom and rewards along the way.

I’m asking you, do you have brilliance? Can you see that you have experience, expertise and possibly even wisdom that’s worth sharing and that’s worth sharing systematically rather than just a little here and a little there as it happens to come up? Is it worth sharing it in a system that makes it visible, actionable, and even immortal? Let me know what you think.

Dr. Stephie

P.S.: I appreciate you commenting and sharing this with others. Thank you!

Stephie Althouse

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