How To Find Your Inner Genius

by Yaro Starak, creator of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com

I’ve been considering lately the way each of us already has a unique inner genius and how this can be found and bought to the surface. This thread of contemplation has led me to a creativity enhancing technique we have discussed previously, called mental priming. How this works in relation to our unique genius is that each one of us is already mentally primed to look for things, to know things and to store information as it relates to our highest values.

What Is A Value?

Dr. John Demartini says values are defined as the things we most highly prize in life, whether it’s related to personal, family, business, social, intimate relationship, physical, mental or spiritual quests. Our values arise out of perceived voids in our lives, so if we perceive that we are lacking financial wealth, then creating wealth rates high on our list of values. If we perceive that we are lacking in an intimate relationship, then finding a partner rates high on our list of values, etc.

How Do We Know What Our Values Are?

The way we know what our highest values are, is by paying attention to what we predominantly think about, talk about, spend our money on and fill our space with.  This means we are already mentally primed in whatever relates to our hierarchy of values. If you remember last week’s interview with John Assaraf, he referred to the way we look for things in our physical environment that connect to what we’re thinking about. That’s an example of how we’re gathering information as it relates to our highest values.

Because we’ve been amassing an incredible amount of information and generating insights related to our highest values for most of our life, this is where our genius lies. In much the same way we each have a unique fingerprint, each person has a unique hierarchy of values.

Dr. Stuart Brown says we can move between our different play personalities, but will usually favor one or two through out our life, we also do this with our values. We have core values that remain the same for life, and then certain values come and go at different stages. Because we have been filtering and storing information as it relates to our unique hierarchy of values, we have created a resource that no one else on this planet has.

Why Aren’t We Using Our Resource Of Unique Information?

There is, unfortunately, a fairly big spanner in the works, as there often appears to be when it comes to the human condition, and as usual, it’s related to our mind, perception and thought processes. If we’re already brilliantly gifted in a way that no one else on the planet is, then how come we’re not aware of this and accessing it to make our lives so much more fulfilling? There are two reasons I can find immediately.

Pale In Imitation

The first is that most of us are not aware of our core values, and instead of living according to our highest values, we try to live according to the values of other people, like those in our family, peer group or society. When we’re not crystal clear about our values, and don’t live according to them, we diminish our ability to impact the world through our creative expression.

Whenever you hear yourself saying or thinking, “I should be doing this or that…” is an example of trying to live according to someone else’s values. If it’s related to your highest values, you just do it, there’s never an element of “should” or having to force yourself.

Dr. Demartini has spent decades traveling the world, working with millions of people. I heard him speaking two days ago, and he said that he has only ever found one woman on this entire planet who was truly congruent – living according to her highest values. He said this woman was doing extraordinary things for children and children’s education around the world as a result of this.

That’s a pretty eye-opening revelation isn’t it? Out of the millions of people Dr. Demartini has met and worked with across the planet, only one has ever been truly congruent. At least we know we’re not alone on this journey of self-discovery and learning how to access and express our genius.

Unconscious Competence Means We Give It Away For Free

The second thing that affects our ability to make use of these gifts is that we can’t articulate easily what they are, and how they relate to our values. The reason it’s important to get clear and articulate about this, is that once we do, we can place a financial value on our gifts. Then they become a valuable and marketable resource.

Currently, you may be doing certain things in your business or personal life that you are unconsciously competent at. That means, you’re so good at it, you just do it and don’t even know that it’s a gift. As long as this is the case, you’re most probably giving away something that could be a highly lucrative and marketable resource for free.

If we are not clear about our hierarchy of values and how this has developed a unique combination of skills and information for us, then it’s most probably being underutilized and undervalued. So we can’t be rewarded for this potentially brilliant resource.

After contemplating this problem I’ve decided to do some more work on my creative character survey. I’m going to need to put in quite a bit more thought, research and structure to make it so people can find out about their hierarchy of values, and uncover the resource of information and skills they’ve been gathering over a lifetime. I’ll keep you tuned on its development.

If you want to find out your hierarchy of values right now, the easiest way is to list what you think about, what you talk about, how you spend your money and how you fill your space. The things that keep showing up again and again in your list will show you what you truly value in life, and therefore it ranks highly in your hierarchy of values. Once again, thanks for reading and I’d love to hear your comments at the end.

Cheers, Neroli.

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