Are you a Genius?
Karel, … I see a big contradiction … On one hand you describe how Facebook is full of geniuses and people with superhuman abilities and you … conclude in several places, that it’s not that hard to build a social networking site …
Dear reader,
Thank you for that observation. You’ve picked out perhaps the most important theme in the book: what the facebook team achieved was amazing, and everyone showed their true genius as they did their part - AND, we can all do that.
I’m really not saying that lightly. I firmly believe that we all have unique gifts, and if we actively nurture them and ride them as far as they will take us, we can act like geniuses in what we are doing. Sometimes to billion dollar heights. Zuck is amazing, yet he is no different from many other people i’ve met. Anyone really doing their best, living at their peak, is Amazing.
No contradiction. We are all geniuses, once we find our unique talents and mission. Then the universe conspires towards our success.
Some amazing results are not financial, so I wrote the section on what is success. Mother Teresa or Gandhi didn’t have any unique ability that we don’t all share - yet they polished simple human qualities until they .. became amazing.
I don’t have all the answers on how to build a business, and they wouldn’t fit into one book. I’ve presented my unique contribution - the story of how one successful company did it. And I’m delighted my small piece has inspired and educated some readers, coming up on a thousand, who were already at a place in their journey where it was right for them.
