Learn new things
In Ava's second post on the topic, various genius walls, she tells her mother about her friend 'prodigy' who she feels is on the other side of a genius wall:
my mom asked was, 'ok but do you want to play the piano and study for finals?'
which is advice that echos back to my first response post genius walls:
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 also writes:
maybe there's actually loads of genius walls, with different requirements and things you can achieve after getting to the other side. some of them being equal to everyone by practice, some other being more related to luck, talent, or just personality traits and innate qualities.
This is interesting to me because I'm getting a lot of de ja vu watching someone say that talent is a requirement for crossing this wall. Talent, as in ones natural skill, is connotated to mean you cannot improve, or people without said 'talent' cannot get there. But everything is a skill and anyone can go anywhere.
There is a quote from Brian Herbet I feel arguements against talent very well
“The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The willingness to learn is a choice.”
The capacity, or rather binary can/cannot, is a gift given to every human, an innate factor, a talent if you will.
The ability to learn is a skill, one that can be trained and improved but also neglected and lost.
The willingness to learn is a choice, and one can always make the mistake of choosing no.
this quote is written on a wall in my school.
So maybe all of these genius walls between different people are not like the ones originally discussed, but rather gradients that are a product of your willingness and your ability to learn new things.