Embrace Your Stupid Side

Jan M Flynn
Nov 1 · 4 min read

We all have one. Smart people know that.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

There is ample advice out there to help you access your inner genius, from Wayne Dyer to Forbes. I’m all for it. Who doesn’t want to be their smartest, most creative self?

But the decades I’ve spent on this planet have convinced me of this: the search for your native brilliance is likely to veer into a cul-de-sac if you fail to do one thing:

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Jan M Flynn

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Top Writer in Climate Change. Pub’d in The Writing Cooperative, P.S. I Love You, The Ascent, more. Visit me at www.JanMFlynn.net.

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