by Raymond Alexander Kukkee

Created on: September 03, 2009   Last Updated: September 04, 2009

Learn to Think like a Genius

Imagine you can learn how to think like a genius. The basic concept of teaching your mind to think like a genius is a worthy and interesting challenge, even if attempts to do so may be unsuccessful. At the very least, awareness levels and brain activity will be increased, a beneficial process essential for good health. Just as physical obesity is rampant in North America, laziness of the mind is far more than common. It seems that people prefer to join the growing ranks of lackadaisical, lazy non-thinkers rather than make even the most rudimentary effort to think.

A simple explanation for common apathy may be that it is simply too much bother for the common individual to project thought beyond the scope of daily survival. Is that sad possibility also the explanation for the observed lack of common sense, logic, and dearth of genius in our modern world? Is the advancement of civilization at stake? Has life become so demanding that people no longer care, or do not dare to challenge their minds? Perhaps modern society, being too preoccupied to take the steps necessary to do so, simply fails to recognize the significance of extended and protracted thought. Maybe individuals simply do not realize that they, too, are free to think far beyond the realm of daily life.

In eternal optimism for the betterment of mankind, we prefer to believe the latter.

The most elementary step to enable the thinking process required to learn how to think like a genius is to be willing to try. Why not attempt to join the brilliant and sometimes obtuse world of the genius? Just think about it. Yes, you can do it; at the very minimum, you can try, no matter who you are.

Let us clarify initially that 'thinking like a genius' is not the same thing as being a genius, or ever being required to become a genius with all of it's problems, quirks and quandaries. To think like a genius does not guarantee the success of anyone attempting to achieve that status, just as to think like a genius equally does not preclude the amazing possibility that one may, in the process, discover a new idea that may, one day, ultimately be described as that of a genius.

To think like a genius is to willingly seek out, practice, gainfully employ the mind, and even enjoy the challenge of attempting to further the process of thought beyond the everyday. The singular necessity may be to willingly adapt the methodology of thought practiced by the special individuals ranked as genius. So,

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