Everyone Is a Genius

We live in a world where we are surrounded by beings-over 7 billion of them- that are very much like us.   So much so that the brainy biologists have even gone as far as giving all of us a common name - Homo sapiens (Latin for ‘wise men’) - is what they call us. And this conclusion would seem perfectly logical if you were to go through a few books on human anatomy, they will state quite conclusively that almost all of the 7 billion of us are essentially the same with two eyes, four limbs, a heart and a brain. So nothing wrong in calling us by the same name right?
Well to a certain extent no and from sciences point of view it’s perfectly logical. But then comparing each of us with each other, it becomes quite obvious that we are as much different from each other as we are alike.

We are all independent individuals with likes, dislikes, interests and skills localized to our own individuality. What is a passion for one can be of equal indifference to the other. We are in fact so different from each other that there cannot be a common scale for our judgment. And this brings me to a few wise words from a very wise man.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” 
  - Albert Einstein.

 Going through these words it becomes quite clear that intelligence or stupidity, talent or a lack of it are all relative. This difference amongst us as individuals is all part of the natural system. It is in fact a fundamental law of nature and what surprises me is that we have never realized this or perhaps we have forgotten all about it in this era of competition and rapid progress. You see in our country right now it’s almost impossible for a large number of us to look beyond two possible career options. All of us either want to be engineers or doctors. Meaning that we are looking at around 400 million Indians wanting to be either one of these two.

It could be possible that our minds have been pre-programmed in a way that makes us great engineers or doctors but the more reasonable conclusion may seem that society and the system has molded our minds in a way that stops us from seeing beyond these preconceived notions of what is pursuable as a career and what is not.  Now there is nothing wrong in being a doctor, it is in fact a very noble profession and engineers are essential for the progress of a nation. But then the problem is not all of us can be good at it. As I have already stated earlier our differences in personalities is what defines us. But then forgetting this basic human ideology and coming up with a narrow minded notion of what is considered talent and what is not is very naïve of us.    

This wonderful world of ours if filled with a lot of opportunities, so many in fact that all of us can find and pursue our own passions. We are all individuals capable of independent thoughts and ideas. What we do for a living must be an expression of our personality, so if science isn’t your thing, don’t sweat just go out there and find something that is!