Listener Favorites: Gay Hendricks | The Joy of Genius
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
How do we break through our upper limits and begin the upward genius spiral? Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence. In this episode, he uncovers the ways of getting passed our most hindering fears, correcting negative thinking, cultivating lasting relationships and ultimately, taking the leap into true creativity.
Gay Hendricks’ latest book can be found here at JoyofGenius.com
To find out more about Gay Hendricks, visit his website at Hendricks.com
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| 0:00.0 | Now, the joy of genius, the new book is about, is how to soar higher and higher, higher |
| 0:07.4 | on the genius spiral. |
| 0:10.1 | This happens, by the way, to be my wife and my 37th anniversary this month, the 37th wedding |
| 0:17.2 | anniversary in the month that I'm talking to you here. |
| 0:21.2 | And one of the things that happened on our wedding day, we were up on a mountaintop when |
| 0:27.6 | we did our mountain, and when we did our wedding in Colorado, we walked up to the top of |
| 0:32.4 | this mountain, and as we were exchanging our vows to each other, these two beautiful |
| 0:39.7 | hawks came and started soaring in spirals in the sky above us the whole time we were giving |
| 0:46.9 | our vows to each other. |
| 0:48.8 | And my wife, I hadn't noticed this, and my wife suddenly said, oh, look up, and I looked |
| 0:53.8 | up, and these hawks were just doing this beautiful spiral movement higher and higher |
| 1:00.5 | in the sky, riding the wind currents. |
| 1:04.0 | And I've used that example to this day to give an example of what genius is really light, |
| 1:09.7 | because when you notice a bird flying higher, whether it's a hawk or any kind of bird, |
| 1:17.1 | soaring higher and higher on wind currents, it's not using any effort. |
| 1:22.4 | It's just knowing how to make the moves that allow nature to support you in going higher. |
| 1:30.0 | And that's what the joy of genius does. |
| 1:33.0 | It shows you the moves that allows you to keep riding higher and higher on your genius |
| 1:39.2 | without effort by just learning how to use the energy that's present in the moment. |
| 1:48.2 | I'm Sreeni Rao, and this is the unmistakable creative podcast, where you get a window into |
| 1:53.5 | the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, |
| 1:58.0 | built driving businesses, written best selling books, and created an insanely interesting |
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