
But owning genius requires admitting that we can be exceptional or extraordinary in our own way and accepting that means we have a responsibility to do something with it.*
(Bernadette Jiwa)
We are what remains after everything we are not.**
(Maria Popova)
Bernadette Jiwa asks,
‘When did one day become never?’^
By genius, I’m not thinking big and dramatic, rather, something we love and have honed and no-one else has done.
We can only find out just what it might be if we take it on a journey.
Jiwa answers her own question:
‘One day becomes never when we fail to take the first step.’*
(*From Bernadette Jiwa’s Hunch.)
(**From Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings: Bear and Wolf.)
(^From The Story of Telling: When Did One Day Become Never?)