These 3 secret keys to awaken your childhood genius are the starting point for breaking through all your self-imposed obstacles to success. And unleashing your vast innate human potential to achieve your dream goals.
Your birth landed you in a strange new world with strange creatures. You very quickly used your natural-born genius to build a working model of life by connecting the dots gathered from your fragmented life experiences.
You did that without a clear understanding of who you were and what you could expect to achieve in your life.
Who are you?
Since you were modeling your life by trial and error, you had no idea of your full human potential. Neither did your parents, elders, and teachers who tried to guide you.
“No instruction manual accompanies the birth of a child.”
Felício Ferraz, Brazilian business leader
Whenever we buy a complex piece of equipment, we get an instruction manual—a little book that explains in simple terms what we can do with it—so we don’t start washing clothes in a dishwasher!
Without such guidance, how can we know who we really are?
And to what heights we can soar in our lives?
Don’t worry! Here are the 3 secret keys to awaken your childhood genius. These will help you unleash the vast natural-born abilities you instinctively used to become a learning machine during your preschool years.
Let’s start by examining ancient folklore that offers secret keys to awaken your childhood genius.
An Indian Legend
A long time ago, all humans were like gods. But they abused their power so much that Brahma, the creator god, decided to take it away and hide it where humans could never find it. It was difficult to find a hiding place since there was no place in existence that humans would not eventually reach.
He finally decided to hide the divinity of humans in a place that humans would never think of searching—deep in the center of their own being!
Identical Greek legend
Astonishingly, this Indian legend closely matches an equally motivational inscription at an ancient temple of a totally different culture in a totally different part of the world.
“Within you is hidden the treasure of treasures. Know yourself, and you will know the Universe and the Gods.”
The Delphi Oracle in ancient Greece
It is very inspiring to find identical secret keys to awaken your childhood genius in two totally different cultures!
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Your vast human potential
You quickly adapted to living in the unfamiliar world you were suddenly and painfully thrust into at birth.
As a preschooler, you had no fixed idea of who you were, what you could do, and what you couldn’t do. But you had the natural-born genius to learn almost anything, with effortless ease.
That was how you were able to learn the complex tasks of walking and talking without a teacher. And you even had the intuitive ability to use a smartphone long before you could read!
Here are the 3 secret keys to awaken your childhood genius.
1. Recognize your preschool genius
When you were a preschooler, if your divergent thinking ability had been measured, you would have scored an amazingly high 98% of genius level. Divergent thinking is your ability to look at anything and come up with many different ways of using it. That is the source of creativity, which is harder to measure.
This is the result of a study of the divergent thinking abilities of 1,600 kindergarten children in the US who were 3–5 years old. [1]
When the same children were retested at 10 years of age and again at 15 years of age, their scores plunged from 98% down to 30% and then to 12%.
When the same test was given to 280,000 adults (average age of 31), their score was an astonishingly low 2%.
This is the exact opposite of your normal learning pattern. You start being not so good and gradually become better.
How can you reverse that trend and regain your childhood genius?
2. Free yourself from mental lockdown
In your preschool years, you were under a “physical lockdown.” That meant you could not go outside except with an adult. However, you were mentally free to go anywhere that your unbridled imagination took you. And you were mostly free to question everything adults said or asked you to do.
All that changed the day you started school.
You were no longer under a physical lockdown. But the mental freedom you enjoyed at home would have gotten you into serious trouble at school. Questioning what the teachers said would have been a sure way to get rejected as a smartass.
That was when you self-imposed a “mental lockdown” as the only way to survive. You then stopped analyzing and questioning what you were told. And stopped exploring out-of-the-box ideas that would have gotten you kicked out of school!
The self-image you gradually started forming was based purely on the reactions of teachers and students to what you said and did.
You then started forming many negative self-impressions (such as being fat, thin, short, ugly, stupid, poor, etc.)
This self-image started governing all your attitudes and behaviors.
“If a lion cub thinks it is a kitten, it will be catching mice all its life.“
Asoka Jinadasa
As you grew older, you gradually extended the borders of your mental lockdown. That was how you prevented conflicts with bosses, colleagues, and lovers.
That explains how your preschool creativity score at 98% genius level dropped down to 2% by your early 30’s. That was also how the level of success in your adult life fell far below the promise of your natural-born preschool genius.
How society has molded us
We are shaped by our life experiences. Several research studies dating back to the 1960s suggest that our behavior is determined not by the kind of person we are deep inside, but by the kind of situation in which we find ourselves. [2] [3]
Our present behaviors are thus shaped in three ways:
1. Compliance: altering our behaviors at the request of others (such as parents, elders, teachers, spouses, and bosses).
2. Conformity: altering our behaviors to get along with others (such as relatives, friends, colleagues, and social groups).
3. Obedience: altering our behaviors because a figure of authority has ordered us to do so (such as parents, teachers, bosses, and police).[3]
Say, for example, that you grew up in an environment where being different and trying to be too smart were strongly discouraged. You would then tend to tone down your individuality in order to
comply with unwritten social values,
conform to accepted group behaviors, and
obey those in authority.
The resulting fear of success would stop you from even aiming for the dream goals that you desire—goals that you could achieve if you tried hard enough.
Although clay can take any shape, we are like clay that has taken the shape of a particular socially acceptable mold.
As The Beatles sang,
Eleanor Rigby waits at the window
wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door.
However, by using the 3 secret keys to awaken your childhood genius, you can easily unleash the vast human potential mostly sleeping within you.
For example, simply by focusing your mental and physical energy, you can awaken limitless physical power—irrespective of your age or physical condition.
A frail 84-year-old woman makes her arm unbendable, against attempts by a much stronger man to bend it.
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Don’t give up too quickly
You discovered what you could do during your early childhood by trying to do everything. And you persisted despite inevitable setbacks!
For example, you must have fallen and cried dozens of times while learning how to walk. But you never gave up by thinking, “Walking is far too difficult. I will never be able to do it.”
During later years, how often have you given up doing something you really wanted by thinking, “This is far too difficult; I will never be able to do it?”
For example, do you now think it is difficult to learn a new language?
Can you remember how easily you could learn to speak your first language without a teacher?
The 3 secret keys to awaken your childhood genius will inspire you to start thinking and acting like the natural-born genius you are!
3. Break through your self-imposed obstacles
Have you consciously explored the limits of the vast innate abilities you intuitively used as a preschooler?
Questioning your current perceptions about yourself will help you break through the self-imposed mental obstacles that prevent you from even aiming for hair-raising goals, as you did as a preschooler.
Recognizing your vast natural-born childhood genius is the first step toward awakening it, irrespective of the problems you may be struggling with in your everyday life.
The 3 secret keys to awaken your childhood genius introduced in this article will inspire you to start aiming for spine-tingling goals that you only dream of.
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Amazing that two completely different cultures share the same concept in their legends about human potential
Yes! Pity we humans have moved so far away from our innate divine nature!