Some Basic Truths

She had never touched a paintbrush before.

Now, she stood in front of hundreds of people, painting. Richard had gotten her out of the audience, talked her through the process in his special way. He didn't tell her just what to do with her hands, but also what to do in her head.

She couldn't believe her eyes when it was done, or her ears when, later that day, somebody offered her $2000.00 for her painting. Her first.

"She just had talent," I can hear you say. Did she? If she had gone out and studied herself, would she have ever figured out just what to do, would she have ever made a painting worth even a quarter of that? Or was it the fact that Richard had gone out and figured out exactly what goes on in the minds of the best and brightest artists, and helped her do the same thing.

I think that it's the latter.

The point is, we are all given the same lump of neurons, and it always divides into the same parts. We have the same brain that DaVinci started with, and you probably have a bigger brain than Albert Einstein had. We have the same number of fingers that all the geniuses had- well, most of them-