Genuis wall
In response to Ava's that one friend who's good at everything and the genius wall.
I too have friends who say they cannot overcome this "genius wall", However I do not believe it itself is the obstacle to theoretically being on the other side. What if the genius wall is one sided? only viewed by those who feel like they need to be there or its not good enough? what if it is two sided and has nothing to do with intellectual or creative applications and everything to do with someones personal traits?
What if the 'genius wall' is something between everyone and their peers that reflects the qualities others have that they don't? I still feel compelled to cross it.
I have been told by many of my friends that 'your just too smart thats why I can't understand it.' But Why on earth would not being the first to understand a new thing in math make it harder for them to understand the thing?
To circle back, I feel compelled to cross a 'genius wall' that stands between me and my peers and reflects the qualities I don't have. And at this point I would like to propose an idea that the genius wall is a blessing not a curse? it is a tool that can be used for reflection, comparison and if you use it correctly change.
Ava talks about not having the attention span and not being talented enough to achieve what her friend (who she refers to as) prodigy did, highest school grades and performing the piano in the school festival. However to combat this believe, Ava has also started blogging this year, and started trying to make her own conlang, thats just about the only things I can remember she has done, but is blogging not in some way comparable to prodigies performance at the school festival? Showing your art form (in one case writing in another music) to an audience.
In Dungeons and Dragons, the human species has a trait called "jack of all trades", as a species, they can do most things to a standard, not a high one but a standard. In the past I have worried that I have been to multidisciplinary with my interests, that having so many hobbies and wanting to study so many things was holding me back in all of them. However I am still told by my friends that I am behind a genius wall they cannot overcome.
So don't break down the wall, violence is bad and that metaphor uses violence. Look at what the people behind it are actually doing, question if thats what you want to be doing and then change yourself and learn to get where you need to go.
Ava's post ended with this:
i think this quote from robert birming's post how winners get lucky is relevant:
Want to be a good skier? Ski more. Want to be a good writer? Write more.
Simple as that. And so hard.
That’s why only a few become winners.
They don’t give up. They keep doing it. They get lucky because they don’t believe in luck.