How brilliant am I?

How often do we acknowledge our own brilliance?  Not often enough, say Darius and Matt, our guides through the strangeness of accepting our brilliance as it is.  By recognizing our brilliance and stating aloud, we come ever closer to our most productive state of operating – essentially, the nirvana of our career performance.

Most people are brought up to be modest:  modesty is taught to us through childhood, with humility alongside it.  To sit in front of your peers and state the honest truth about your greatest strengths – no, your BRILLIANCE – without dampening any statements using ‘maybe’, ‘kind of’, ‘a little’, was a challenge to say the least!

Softening the experience, however, was what followed.  A feeling of being enveloped in a fluffy cloud of compliments, as your brilliance is explained to you as seen by your peers.  A sort of 360 degree only-positive feedback session.  The atmosphere was one of trust, and calmness.  I think we all felt great at the end, maybe because it was over, but maybe because we all came a little bit closer to our own professional nirvanas.