Hi folks

I’m try­ing to cre­ate a group shar­ing envi­ron­ment where every­one read­ing this page can share their best prac­tices, thoughts and ideas on how par­ents can help chil­dren avoid the Genius Dip.

I also cre­ated a video to explain more. The video is 9 mins…but I think it’s a lot more per­sonal than just read­ing a post. You can see me and hear me and know that I’m a real per­son. By the way, the pic­ture behind me in the video is one of my recent paint­ings. It’s a scene from California.

ok, here’s the video..

And for those of you who pre­fer read­ing or can’t get the video to load, below the video is the tran­script of what I’m saying

So I’d love to hear back from you.

Tran­script:

Hi every­one,

Firstly, I really want to say thanks for the over­whelm­ing response to the Genius Dip report. We had 1,800 peo­ple down­load the report in just the first 24 hours. If I was sell­ing a book, one of my pub­lish­ers told me that that this would qual­ify me to make it on the New York best­seller list.

So THANK YOU.

I also want to thank you for send­ing me your thoughts and opin­ions on the Genius Dip. I received so many emails and com­ments that I only felt it was fair to record this short video and keep the con­ver­sa­tion going.

I really think I acci­den­tally touched a nerve on a lot of peo­ple. It turns out that a lot of peo­ple were think­ing the same way I was. A lot of you expressed your dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the way mod­ern soci­ety is allow­ing kids to grow.

Some of you had amaz­ing ideas and things to share. I sim­ply love how pas­sion­ate you are to bring out the best in your chil­dren, and I know this com­mon pas­sion we have will drive us, together, towards build­ing a bet­ter world for our children.

Now, any­one who has stud­ied my writ­ings would already know how strongly I believe in the power of the mind to attract your dom­i­nant thoughts into your real­ity. What I mean by this is… when you focus on the neg­a­tive, you will only mag­nify the neg­a­tive in your life. When you focus on the pos­i­tive, you mag­nify the positive.

Now if we sim­ply worked on the idea of blam­ing the edu­ca­tion sys­tem, blam­ing tele­vi­sion or video games… that isn’t going to solve any­thing. We would never move on from just talk­ing about the prob­lem… and I don’t want to to stay in the negative.

I want to move this con­ver­sa­tion for­ward. I want to know what we can do together from here. Because… what we really have to do is fig­ure out how we can help pre­vent, or reduce the effect of the genius dip. We need to shift our focus on find­ing pos­i­tive solutions.

You see, even though there are short­com­ings in soci­ety, the one thing that keeps us really alive is the pos­i­tive sense of growth for bet­ter and bet­ter days. And just a brief glance at his­tory will show that human soci­eties as a whole build upon the last gen­er­a­tion to bet­ter the world.

Right now is a really impor­tant time for another shift in human­ity… another level up. I really, truly believe from the bot­tom of my heart.… I really think that we are at the start of the new era for humanity.

Take for exam­ple the Flynn effect. I don’t know how many of you know what I’m talk­ing about when I say the Flynn effect, but in a nut­shell, the Flynn effect talks about how aver­age IQs are ris­ing remark­ably in our kids.… Gen­er­a­tions after gen­er­a­tions are grow­ing up to be smarter and smarter than their parents.

Then there is the phe­nom­e­non of indigo chil­dren, a gen­er­a­tion of kids who have been born with height­ened sen­si­tiv­ity and intu­ition. And then of course there’s the phe­nom­e­non of our cur­rent mass embrace of spir­i­tual prac­tices. Just the hun­dreds of web­sites and books being con­sumed every­day on mans spir­i­tual nature is indi­ca­tion of this.… not to men­tion the unquan­tifi­able spir­i­tual lessons taught between peo­ple through actions and words.

So, with­out doubt, I believe we are at the cusp of a new era of human­ity. And because of this, I believe the old ways won’t work. We can­not nur­ture cre­ativ­ity and intu­ition in our kids and give our kids the skills to make bet­ter deci­sions in their lives through a mass sys­tem. Because of the mass struc­ture alone, the sys­tem couldn’t pos­si­bly teach our chil­dren these skills… sim­ply because it can­not cater to each and every child’s indi­vid­ual needs.

So lets focus on the pos­i­tive. What are the new ways?

Well, for this, I want to hear your thoughts. I have my ideas… but you prob­a­bly have equally good ideas.

So please tell me… What are the unique things that you would do, or you did as a par­ent, or what are the things that your par­ents did for you that helped you nur­ture your growth and helped you avoid the Genius Dip as much as possible?

What are the moments in your life… the small things that made a big dif­fer­ence… that you remem­ber and trea­sure and value the most?

I’d love to hear your ideas… because what i want to do is com­pile all these ideas and share them with our audi­ence so that all par­ents can learn from each other… and per­haps by shar­ing ideas you might touch another family’s lives, or another par­ent might touch your family’s life.

I think that this is an impor­tant thing that we need do. And I think it’s impor­tant to do it together as a community.

So all you need to do is fill in the com­ments below this post and share your ideas and sto­ries and inspi­ra­tions on how to nur­ture children’s growth in all aspects.… from devel­op­ing a stronger mind… to instill­ing courage and moti­va­tion… to achiev­ing bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills… to know­ing how to com­bat their fears… hav­ing con­trol over emo­tions and make wise deci­sions… and oh… the list goes on.

Tell us also your hopes and dreams of what you wish to see for that bet­ter day our chil­dren will live in.

I really can’t wait to hear back from you. And once again… thank you… your con­cern and con­tri­bu­tion is really, really appreciated.

What are the prac­tices or ideas you have that you feel have helped your kids avoid the Genius Dip? Share them by click­ing on the “com­ments” link below.