Most of us live our lives the way we wear bowties.
Most people wear a clip-on bowtie. We clip on a bowtie on top of our collar. We live our life the same way. We clip on an identity, we clip on our job. We clip on our enthusiasm. We clip on our efforts. We live at a very superficial level. We coast through life, hardly experiencing it.
Some people move up to the next level, a strap-on bowtie, the kind you often wear with a tuxedo. But even here, many just wear a clip-on. With a strap-on bowtie, you wrap the tie around your collar and connect it with a little hook. This is how some people live life. They wrap it around themselves and get a little more involved but without going to any great depth to really live life. It looks good, better than a clip-on bowtie but still it lacks something of reality and depth of enjoyment.
A few people enthusiastically experience bowties, by tying one on all by themselves. Even some of these people need others to help them tie the bow. Everyone struggles at first learning to tie the bow for themselves. Remember learning to tie your shoes? But eventually, with some effort and practice it becomes easier and easier until its second nature and can be done with no effort at all.
That's how the genius lives life. They struggle for a while to discover their genius, exploring the world around them. But they eventually encounter it, sometimes just stumbling upon it when someone questions them about what they truly love to do. Even then, they will struggle a little with it until they really begin living their true genius. Then it just becomes second nature, life opens up and soars before their eyes.
So, will you be content to clip on life, strap it on, or go for genius and tie it on enthusiastically, with joy and excitement and live to the fullest, living your true genius?
