Becoming Supergenius, Part I: The Outer World: Creativity and Transformation (Unabridged‪)‬

Becoming Supergenius has grown on the scorched earth that is the current state of learning, teaching, and education. I asked 35 people, with over 1,600 years of accumulated experience, how and why they learned. From their answers I resolved 328 learning secrets that are part of any person's journey to find their full potential.

Learning requires us to explore where our thinking comes from. There is truth to every thought and some context in which every thought makes sense. We can't examine every idea, but we don't want to focus only on the important few. We need directions. These books are a map through the chaos of possibilities.

Each of the 328 learning secrets open a world of its own. Some of these will nourish you, some may poison you, and others can heal you. These secrets don't lead to paradise, they are training in the skills of the hero's journey. They are preparation for the real world, which is where you must go to learn, not to hallowed and protected halls.

These books map the territory and tell you how to rig and trim your sails. No matter how glorious or miserable you feel about your journey, it's your journey, and you were made for it. The object is not happiness, it's more than that.

The first volume, The Outer World, addresses the environment in which we find ourselves. We consider the attitudes people have about learning, the actors and agents we encounter in our attempts to learn, where we find these people, and how they behave. These are the practical issues.

We associate genius with aptitude, skill, intelligence, and success. I've invented the term "supergenius" to refer to something deeper. If geniuses blaze the trails we follow, supergeniuses blaze trails that we're not yet ready to. Genius stands out; supergenius often does not.

The supergenius is someone who not only sees all sides, but also conceives of there being no side, the reality of the ambiguous, and even in this finds direction. Supergeniuses are inspired.