Dear DIEry; when born with the potential of few and so called "genius" capacities, does this enable a person to succeed in the world we live in? the many will say yes, though the few will say "no." The ability to be good or even great in many things, just makes it harder to decide what to do. If you were born son to a carpenter father and 4th to generations of great carpenters before you, and chose to be a carpenter yourself. What would be your challenge other than meeting the expectations of being a great carpenter?
If you were born with the choices of many great expectations and had a varied interest in many things, what could you be great in? What would make your decisions and in the midst of following a path, what would keep you from jumping to another?
With small victories of accomplishments along the way, we can develop a faith in ourselves not second to God, but do small victories bare the fruit of success in life overall? In my first life of material success, I had the house, the cars, the wife and son, and a belief in myself that rivaled indestructibility. But as with anything not built upon a strong foundation or in balance with life overall, a fragile step is all it takes to bring the reverse triangle of wealth and power down.
To rebuild better what you built once before takes more than a matter of time and faith in oneself, but a foundation of trust and faith in other people and powers outside of yourself. This grows the foundation and pyramid as it should stand, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top where you will be. Not upside down tipping on the power of one to keep it held high and balanced forever. One chip and it all crashes down, where as with a pyramid it would require a whole lot of chips, dents, and huge explosions to bring it crumbling down.
