Becoming a genius comes with a price. You need to give over yourself totally to the development of your talents and make some sacrifices. It is a way of life and can be compared to the learned professions like law, accounting and the medical field.
The way of life is described in some detail in the quote below:
Instead of resorting to toxic procedures we must consider and possibly recommend special habits, attitudes and environmental conditions. The first condition to be considered is aloneness. Aloneness may be viewed as a partial sensory deprivation. … He has more possibility of listening to his inner self, to come in contact with his inner resources and with some manifestations of his primary process. (Modern Western psychology speaks of the knowledge derived from the pre-conscious state as primary cognition, and that derived from the conscious state or the logical type of knowledge as secondary cognition.) Unfortunately, aloneness is not advocated in our modern form of educating adolescents. On the contrary gregariousness and popularity are held in high esteem.
Aloneness is not to be confused with painful loneliness or with withdrawal or constant solitude. …
A second characteristic which seems to promote creativity is one which is contrary to the present spirit of American culture: Inactivity.
The third characteristic is daydreaming. … It is in day-dream life that the individual permits himself to diverge from the usual ways and to make little incursions into irrational worlds.
Another requirement for the creative person is even more difficult to accept; gullibility. This word is used here to mean the willingness to accept, at least temporarily or until proved wrong, that there are certain underlying orderly arrangements in everything outside us and inside us. Creativity often implies the discovery of these underlying arrangements more than the inventing of new things. …
Alertness and discipline are other requirements. Although they are necessary pre-requisites for productivity in general, they acquire a particular aspect in creativity.
This passage was from Creativity and its Cultivation by Silvano Arieti. You can get a free copy of the ebook from the link below:
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