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“Who’d want to be ordinary?”

So was Mr. Jobs smart? Not conventionally. Instead, he was a genius. That may seem like a silly word game, but in fact his success dramatizes an interesting distinction between intelligence and genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. They were sparked by intuition, not analytic rigor. Trained in Zen Buddhism, Mr. Jobs came to value experiential wisdom over empirical analysis. He didn’t study data or crunch numbers but like a pathfinder, he could sniff the winds and sense what lay ahead.

He told me he began to appreciate the power of intuition, in contrast to what he called “Western rational thought,” when he wandered around India after dropping out of college. “The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like we do,” he said. “They use their intuition instead … Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.”

Mr. Jobs’s genius wasn’t, as even his fanboys admit, in the same quantum orbit as Einstein’s. So it’s probably best to ratchet the rhetoric down a notch and call it ingenuity. Bill Gates is super-smart, but Steve Jobs was super-ingenious. The primary distinction, I think, is the ability to apply creativity and aesthetic sensibilities to a challenge.

China and India are likely to produce many rigorous analytical thinkers and knowledgeable technologists. But smart and educated people don’t always spawn innovation. America’s advantage, if it continues to have one, will be that it can produce people who are also more creative and imaginative, those who know how to stand at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences. That is the formula for true innovation, as Steve Jobs’s career showed.

So how do you develop this kind of intuition, these aesthetic sensibilities? I’ve gotten that from my mentor Dr. Joseph Riggio who happens to be running a training this month in the UK called INFLUENCE.

One of the most signifiant aspects regarding right/left brain distinctions is that in addition to the inherent processing preferences and capabilities, the way you process information (as well as the information you even notice) is impacted by your education and enculturation. In other words you’ve learned both what information to pay attention to, and how to make sense of that information. The way you do this determines what information you will take action on and what action you will take.

“What you pay attention to, and the way you pay attention to it, is the basis for the results and outcomes you produce in the world.” 

Progressive and Mr. Lewis illustrate how 10Xers shine when clobbered by setbacks and misfortune, turning bad luck into good results. They use difficulty as a catalyst to deepen purpose, recommit to values, increase discipline, respond with creativity and heighten productive paranoia — translating fear into extensive preparation and calm, clearheaded action. Resilience, not luck, is the signature of greatness.

Nietzsche wrote, “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” We all get bad luck. The question is how to use it to turn it into “one of the best things that ever happened,” to not let it become a psychological prison.

A Signpost on the Path
http://transformationalperformance.com/?p=1

It probably goes without saying that this was a profound transformation moment for me … and surely it was that. While there were literally months of deep personal work I was engaged in leading up to this moment, in an instant I found myself surrendering to the transformation I was in the midst of experiencing … and it was as if my skin broke open and released me from the illusions I had held up until the moment regarding what it would be like to be myself completely.

What you often see with spiritual teachers is they end up using the language of different spiritual traditions to express themselves. But are they actually expressing themselves, or parroting profound truths of others?

Years ago I trained in an Hawaiian Shamanic lineage, Huna Mua. And I had the profound good fortune of my teacher Phil Young being someone who doesn’t take himself too seriously. He enjoyed the incongruence of being a “middle class white guy” to use his phrase who had the extraordinary experience he was living (which is chronicled in the book A Promise Kept). And what I’ve realised more recently is that if you want to be able to make a difference in the world you need to learn how to become a shaman. BUT…

What this is NOT is copying what a shaman did in some indigenous culture. Unless you are going to live in that culture that is kind of pointless. It may seem to satisfy your longings to go back to a time where there weren’t the problems we have today with the poisoning of the environment and therefore the food we eat and how that then affects us. As well as all the financial difficulties and trouble the world has shared recently. The romanticised view of going back to the past unfortunately just isn’t true. I apologise if I’m spoiling your illusions. But that’s part of the problem we share today, so many people living in delusion where they think only of themselves disconnected from the reality of the people around them. Many people love the idea of the Native American culture, or rather how they think it was. And don’t realise in their naivety that they just wouldn’t have survived. That is what the job of the shaman was all about, helping their tribe, their culture not just survive but thrive.

This is what a modern day shaman does. They help not just their tribe but their culture thrive.

Remember you can’t do this if you JUST want your tribe to survive. The boundary of your tribe is the boundaries of planet earth. The mess you make washes up on the shore the other side of the world, just as their mess washes up on yours.

Another way of saying this is most people live in the world of ‘OR’. The choice is this OR that, if we’re successful someone else has to lose out. If you learn to live in the world of ‘AND’ you realise if we’re going to be successful we also have to make everyone else successful as well. There is no choice. You build ecology into your decision making process. This is one of the things the MythoSelf process does, it teaches you an embodied ethical decision making process. So you think ecologically.

The secret to getting other people to change is that you can’t make them. But if you become a leader worth following and embody the change that you want to see then people will happily change to follow the example of what works.

How many dogs do you see taking their ‘owners’ for a walk? Most of them, yes? Listen to your dog.