The ruby slippers are symbolic of your own capacities that you suspect you have but don’t know how to use.*
Jean Houston

“I’m not that smart.” Someone said that to me the other day and it was heartbreaking … The correct thing to say is, “I don’t care that much.” I don’t care enough to do the reading, to fail along the way, to show up, to make a promise, to learn as I go, to confront failure, to get better at the work.  All of that might be true. But you’re almost certainly smart enough.**
Seth Godin

Look down at your feet,
You’re wearing your red shoes –
Just like everyone else –
The thing you require is to
figure out how to use them –
Like Dorothy, to find your
yellow brick road and some
companions and take
a walk.

*Jean Houston’s The Wizard of Us;
**Seth Godin’s blog: “I’m not that smart”;
^Quia non iter: because he did not travel.