214 - Exploring Genius
You Are Not So Smart
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The root of the word genius is the latin geno genere a, which means to generate or to father. Genius was conceived as a kind of guardian spirit that was born with you at creation and watched over you throughout your life. The roman playwright plautus once wrote of regret. He regretted how when he realized he was dying in his old age, as a poor man, that he couldn't go on any more adventures or experience anything new. And he said he had cheated himself, his animus and his genius.
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