You'er One in a Billion!

One of the basic tenets of LOP is that we are all geniuses.  This idea is not about the traditional IQ scores that many of us are use to, it is based on the idea that we are individuals, unique, and there is no one that can do us as well as we can.

I recently purchased a National Geographic speciality issue on the "Science of Genius".  Within it was information on Harold Gardner's research around MI -- Multiple Intelligences.  MI outlines nine areas of human aptitude recognizing that our differences are vast and important.  The aptitudes include: logical-reasoning, musical, spatial, naturalist, interpersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, linguistic intrapersonal and existential.

Although I find these categories fascinating, exploring them is not the purpose of this post, so I will allow you to explore them further if you are inspired.  The exciting part I want to express in this post is how MI has expanded my appreciation of our uniqueness and how much each of us can benefit by each of us being who we really are and expressing that out into the world.

Imagine if a person picked a number between one and ten indicating how much they identified with a particular aptitude, and they did that with all nine aptitudes.  They would arrive at a unique combination of numbers that would be (if I am doing the math of calculating outcomes correctly) 1: 1,000,000,000 -- that's one in a billion, and that does not take into account the differences of where we were born, how we grew up and all the other experiences we each have that make us unique.

Based on the concept of these numbers this means that in the whole world there are seven other people who share the same combination of skills, abilities, interests and priorities as you.  There are maybe seven other people who see things the same way you do, process information the same way you do, would do a job the same way you do, have creative ideas the same way you do.  And this brings us back to the basis of LOP:  if you don't share/honor/remember and express who you really are with the rest of us -- who will?

LOP is about recognizing, appreciating, and benefiting from the differences each of us contributes as we LOP.