A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 76
“Creative genius is not a place you reach, but a state of mind you maintain.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 76
The walk-through
We tend to picture genius as an arrival — a level you finally reach, a title earned once and kept. Innocent puts it somewhere humbler and harder: a state of mind you maintain, which means it can be held or lost on any given day, and returned to.
What it opens up is a way of seeing — “a state of mind that enables you to unveil the hidden layers of meaning in life and make connections otherwise impossible to make.” Not a trophy on a shelf. Attention you keep choosing.
He came to this as an author. Success sits in the same place: a state of mind in which you love your life and what you have made of it. Failures are many either way; losing that love for your life is the one failure that matters.
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