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Genuine geniuses | Managing Leadership — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:27:08 +0000

[...] Socratic genius is partially out of your control. You don’t so much create it, as give shape to its expression through you. It is a sort of brilliant insight that blinds all who behold it, including you. You seem to have an uncanny grasp of certain matters – particularly those related to human experience, emotion, ambition – and can render and relate them with rare perception, and in a manner that strikes rich harmonic chords in the rest of us. A peculiar danger of this sort of genius is the assumption – shared by all, including you – that your genius is unbounded, extends to fields well beyond those where it is actually quite narrowly restricted, and that you both comprehend and control it. [...]

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[...] While reviewing the second corollary, we saw that Socrates adopted a peculiar attitude – the profession of ignorance – to force himself to reject glibly offered assumptions; rather, he re-subjected them to questioning in order to ensure he understood them. As it happens, he usually discovered in the process that they had fatal flaws, casting into doubt the beliefs and practices that were built upon them. [...]