How to be a Brillant human being.

[Smarky]

Scenario:

You have been asked to give a speech in front of a range of ambitious youngsters ranging from 17-25, who want to do great things with there lives yet don't know how to do it or where to begin.

The students are eager for advice and willing to follow your inspiration and instructions.

The title of your talk is "How to be a brilliant human being"

You have 30 minutes to make an impact, What do you say?

[Plato]

"Not everyone can be me... but give it a go anyway. "

Then just stare at them for the next 30 minutes. Occassionally flex my biceps.



Hehehehe, no I'd tell them about how to face the things they fear. How it develops you as a person and makes you more complete and self-assured. I'd tell them about the power of the moment. I'd tell them that through self-discipline and the elimination of apathy one can truly appreciate themselves and life. I'd tell them to start questioning all the values they take to be obvious. I'd tell them how to get motivated whenever they need to by jumping around and getting energetic- unstifling themselves.

I reckon I could squeezed that in. Then I'd go home and think about actually doing all that myself!

[astra]

I say that before you try to go out and make the world a better place, start with your own back yard. IMO, the most brilliant people are those that hand out the small kindnesses, and spread joy in the small ways, before trying to feed Africa. Being kind to a country of starving kids doesn't outweigh the small injustices you carry out every day in the name of success - ie putting down a colleague who's having trouble instead of offering help.

[Jennihul]

I would have a little in there about how important it is to be their own person. Conformity at that age is often crippling.

Jennifer

[Brutha]

I don't like the concept of trying to be brillant anyway. I would rather prefer the ideal from Steve Jobs: "Stay hungry, stay foolish".

In general we can't tell you what to say, because being authentic is the most important thing when you want to make an impact.
Speak from your heart. Tell them what matters to you.

[carenkh]

I think to be brilliant, really brilliant, i.e. a shining light, you need to find what brings you passion. Like this quote:

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

[Keith]

No point me saying anything when someone else has already said it so much better.

[Fullcrum]

I would tell them where the true enjoyment of life is.

I would be so pumped, so excited, so full of clear and piercing energy that people cannot HELP but unconsciously associate living in a state of presence as the ideal.

Teach them to be present in their bodies. Teach them that true emotional state is found when one slows down and dialates perception. Man, them them that state is self-generated, and that you don't need to rely on outside things to feel good. Teach them a little about social conditioning removing them from the DEFAULT feel-good state that we are BORN with. Show them all these things - be them!

The best speaker is a living embodiment of what they speak of, especially in this area.

[Smarky]

Originally Posted by Brutha

I don't like the concept of trying to be brillant anyway. I would rather prefer the ideal from Steve Jobs: "Stay hungry, stay foolish".

In general we can't tell you what to say, because being authentic is the most important thing when you want to make an impact.
Speak from your heart. Tell them what matters to you.

Heh I am a big fan of Steve Jobs and Apple (I am using Mac OS X at the moment, and have had iPods for over five years!) To me Steve would be an example of a "Brilliant Human being" So it's interesting that you mention his speech as kinda a dismisal of what I am saying.

What does Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish mean to you? What does it mean in the real world? What is this ideal you describe it as?

[n_vizion]

Originally Posted by Smarky

Scenario:

You have been asked to give a speech in front of a range of ambitious youngsters ranging from 17-25, who want to do great things with there lives yet don't know how to do it or where to begin.

The students are eager for advice and willing to follow your inspiration and instructions.

The title of your talk is "How to be a brilliant human being"

You have 30 minutes to make an impact, What do you say?

I would start out by describing the word "brilliant" and what it meant. I would detail how brilliance is what differenciates the diamond from the cubic zirconia. Then I would go into the details of how to become brilliant. I would give examples of what cubic zirconia people do and contrast that to what diamond (brilliant) people do.

[Trezker]

Originally Posted by Keith

No point me saying anything when someone else has already said it so much better.

Awesome, that's exactly what every kid should learn.
So now the question is, how the heck do we get that message into every kids head?

[evelynlim]

Originally Posted by astra

I say that before you try to go out and make the world a better place, start with your own back yard. IMO, the most brilliant people are those that hand out the small kindnesses, and spread joy in the small ways, before trying to feed Africa. Being kind to a country of starving kids doesn't outweigh the small injustices you carry out every day in the name of success - ie putting down a colleague who's having trouble instead of offering help.

I agree with this reply. Brilliance is not measured by the glory or the gold medals but by the simple act of kindness and compassion.

Evelyn

[Plato]

Originally Posted by evelynlim

I agree with this reply. Brilliance is not measured by the glory or the gold medals but by the simple act of kindness and compassion.

Evelyn

Why?

[Smarky]

Originally Posted by n_vizion

I would start out by describing the word "brilliant" and what it meant. I would detail how brilliance is what differenciates the diamond from the cubic zirconia. Then I would go into the details of how to become brilliant. I would give examples of what cubic zirconia people do and contrast that to what diamond (brilliant) people do.

Which is?

[Brutha]

What does Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish mean to you? What does it mean in the real world? What is this ideal you describe it as?

Being authentic and taking risks.
A brillant person on the other hand knows what he is doing and doesn't have to take risks.

[highanddry]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Being authentic and taking risks.
A brillant person on the other hand knows what he is doing and doesn't have to take risks.

Einstein took massive risks, and was often wrong. He was uniquely brilliant because he was also, sometimes, very right.

Like another genius, Samuel Beckett, said: Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

[Marco Polo]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Being authentic and taking risks.
A brillant person on the other hand knows what he is doing and doesn't have to take risks.

If we could navigate perfectly through life without risks, then taking risks would simply be irrational. Risk-taking has no positive value in and of itself, it's only useful when we anticipate something better on the other side.

As for the OP... that was a difficult one. I'm not so sure you can teach brilliance. Talk about the value of personal development I guess. "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for one day. Teach a man to fish..."

[Smarky]

Originally Posted by Marco Polo

If we could navigate perfectly through life without risks, then taking risks would simply be irrational. Risk-taking has no positive value in and of itself, it's only useful when we anticipate something better on the other side.

Right. I think you hit something on the head here. Which is often as an observer we see things differently and analyses everything and come up with stuff that is related to the outcome, but not what actually drove the action in the first place. We may see a certain techniquie or process but that is never what it is about.

I doubt nowhere does Steve Jobs think about taking risks. It is perhaps just about being authentic no matter what and being bold about it. Things and decisions that stem from this may appear "Risky" but are actually not and that is why it works!

[Brutha]

If we could navigate perfectly through life without risks, then taking risks would simply be irrational. Risk-taking has no positive value in and of itself, it's only useful when we anticipate something better on the other side.

Yes, that is the ideal behind the thing I see behind the concept of brillance.

Risk takes is about anticipating something better on the other side, something better than the status quo.

[Smarky]

I think it is a mindset, because having the right attitude and being in the right place internally will produce the results externally. Although I think it's a difficult mindset to find and in some part you have to find your own place rather than someone else ideals. It is very tricky and I guess that is why not everyone is like that, although not everyone wants to be.

So What is the "Stay hungry, Stay foolish" mindset? What does it actually mean? Be Authentic? What does that really mean? Risk what?

I think a lot of this has similarities to the overachivement mindset outlined in the book Overachivement by John Eliot if any of you have read this.

[Old Soul]

"How to be a brilliant human being"

Tell them that they will never see life more clearly than they do right now, they are the perfect age for being hungry to make their footprint in life, their inner child is awake, eager and full of excellent ideas , that they thinking is probably 100 percent more authentic than those who are conditioned by the world (they are not yet conditioned by a world full of pretentious BS.).

Tell them that they see the world with a much more honest view and clarity than 90 percent of the so called adults who are running this world through the lense of molded stagnent apathy, this is no ones fault this is what happens..

tell them that their contribution is crucial ! they are the seasoning for the rest of us..they will shake and wake up the world we need their input we need thier ideas, we need their voice... even when they think nobody is listening, they must use their voice..

Tell them that brilliant ideas are born from dedicated driven and open hearts, who have ideas , that you do not have to have an IQ which is off the chart for their ideas to be excellent, just a real passion to make a footprint... this world and all her global issues is ripe, sitting in a place called transition, their voices their input their actions are the only thing missing ...

Tell them that they are living today for their tomorrow, and the challenge of global issues facing us all is monumentous, and that their voice is the voice that is brilliant for
saying they love and welcome the challenge


that is all i got to say bout that :-0)