When Someone Realizes Your Genius, You Can’t Stop Thinking About Them

Curiosity holds a commanding position in all conversations and literature about communication, professionalism, and exceptionally talented adults.

In this community, I’ve noticed how curiosity cuts across all our behaviors. Maybe it’s the glue that answers the question: In what way are professionals, communicators, and gifted adults bonded in deep thinking and extraordinary achievements?

We seem to share an extreme fascination about people and what makes them tick. We have no time for stupid or mean people because our energy seeks people we believe are smarter than us and we can learn something fresh and different every day. We hold tight to the mantra “If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” That’s why we keep building an online community of people who are more experienced and wiser in everything that drives our curiosity.

Curiosity reveals deeper truths about who we are and what is most meaningful to us. It offer insights into our past experiences, current creative drive, and even glimpses into new professional paths we may want to explore.

In the past two years of writing every day and building this community on multiple platforms, I’ve made a list and watched for patterns of repetition that reveal the superpowers of you—and everyone else who subscribes and invites like-minded people to join us.

Here are some superpowers —abundant in our community but rare elsewhere:

We look for intelligence in other people.

Fascinating people have put in the work to find their gifts, so that they may serve as the beacon of light for anyone actively seeking that gift. Because they are secure in their own identity, they are brilliant at noticing the genius in you. Once that happens, you can’t stop thinking about them.

We go deep fast and skip the small talk.

Our subscribers and members of the community get past small talk quickly by asking questions that are deep, never threatening, and you are eager to answer. You love them because your mind is saying “At last, someone who wants to talk about my favorite topic!” Nobody needs to explain stuff to me or make me feel dumb.

We help someone else see the genius in themselves they hadn’t realized.

Curiosity makes us think about questions and deeper questions. We are more obsessed with questions than facts. For example, we had no idea there were so many different breeds of dogs and each one has a specific nutritional need until someone showed us that gift for critical information. We had no idea there were more than 150 traits to say how gifted or how professional we are because we never thought to ask.

Credit Michaela at home in Germany from Pixabay

We set boundaries that keep the best close by and ward off the clingy parasites.

Because we are so multifaceted with equal and complementary strengths in relationships, professional practices, wealth, and social matters, we have become stronger—even masterful, at setting boundaries and teaching others how to do the same. The filtering system created by each of us starts early and becomes stunning in strength and simplicity as we age. We know we need relationships and plenty of the right ones to keep us growing, interested, and safe. We know we need to quickly learn—then forever block out, hundreds of signals that tell us someone will be a clingy parasite, waste our time, exhaust our emotions, and use us for their gain.

We challenge assumptions and make suggestions that stick in the mind.

Our subscribers read a lot, write or communicate prolifically, and challenge assumptions. We are not pushy or irritating people. Instead, curiosity demands that we ask better questions to reveal deeper curiosities. We stand out and attract others because we dare to live outside The Matrix. In order to understand a book or article, we love learning from others with counterintuitive ideas and suggestions that stick in the mind.

Credit Bess Hamiti from Pixabay

We observe and report instead of taking it personally.

Life is a story. When life hands us a lemon, make it a chapter in the draft of the memoir book, which we might just complete someday. Curiosity keeps our mind calm and we appear to be the coolest one in the room when others are losing composure. This is a learned skill and it comes quickly to the highly sensitive, responsible, empathic, and curious minds of professionals, communicators, and everyday geniuses.

We write more than most because we are good at storytelling. Most of your writing is for you because it is how you find out what you are thinking. Less than half of our writing ever gets published and that’s fine. None of this is about us; instead, it is about the world around us and what makes people tick. What happens after hours of writing first drafts, second drafts, and rewrites? We edit for the subscribers because we obsess over what they want to learn next. And from each other.

We are both here for thought-provoking conversations. Please use email to start a conversation with me. I read and respond to ALL comments.

Do you feel like you’re on the edge of something amazing, but you just can’t figure out what it is? That’s where I come in. My name is Georgia Patrick. I work with curious, intense, understanding professionals—real and retired, to tap into their full potential and get extremely clear on their gift (their value) to individuals actively seeking such wisdom. It starts with an email. Maybe, later, a short call to make sure you are understood.

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