87 Comments on “Combating the Genius Dip — The Solution Is In The Pipeline!” - Post your own?

Lolana says

Gayle DeGraff, who above says she helps trou­bled teens, ran a boot camp that was respon­si­ble for the death of Michelle Sut­ton. Research­ing this, I found that Ms. DeGraff tried to per­pet­u­ate a lie that Michelle had taken cocaine which caused her death. The death was caused by dehy­dra­tion in a forced march up a moun­tain. Coun­selors ignored the girl’s agony as she was dying, and accused her of fak­ing it.

Every­one should be aware that there are wolves in the midst of those who would take charge of your kids and have com­plete and total power over them for the dura­tion of their stay in a camp. Please thor­oughly research those to whom you grant this author­ity so that this kind of tragedy does not hap­pen to your child.

barbara pennington says

i think you should make a moveie for kids

Elena says

Hello Burt:
I would pre­fer your teach­ings for the chil­dren in video and books, if you can do some­thing as VIDEOGAMES to teach the kids would be fab­u­lous. That is the actual world of this new gen­er­a­tion, and I thing a great way to touch their inter­est.
(I think for par­ents teach­ing is bet­ter audio to lis­ten­ing in the car while dri­ving to work)

Thanks Burt for being part our life, and thanks for shar­ing with us and the world your inspi­ra­tion, your cre­ativ­ity, your dreams about chang­ing the social con­scious. I eared time ago a per­son telling if you trans­form the con­scious of 2 gen­er­a­tions, you change the world.

That is way I would love to work in such trans­for­ma­tion start­ing in my home with my kids, giv­ing them a legacy of pros­per­ity and love for the human­ity and life.

Best regards
Elena

Kim says

I have 3 chil­dren — 12, 9 & 7. The two old­est are boys. The com­pe­ti­tion between them was big, and with the help of your CD’s, about self com­pe­ti­tion, they are now get­ting along bet­ter. With a busy life, it is dif­fi­cult to get every­one together to lis­ten to the CD’s. We take about 30 min. a day to lis­ten and learn a new tech­nique. DVD’s may be more attrac­tive to chil­dren and make it eas­ier to get par­ents to get their chil­dren to lis­ten and learn. How­ever, it is also eas­ier to have CD’s avail­able so you can turn them on in the car — the kids have to sit still and lis­ten — there is no other choice. And when school starts up again, lis­ten­ing in the car might be our only chance. Fur­ther­more, I play the Daisy Pond at night when my chil­dren go to bed. I would rec­om­mend hav­ing both DVD’s and CD’s. Thank you for your inspi­ra­tion and intel­li­gence to increase the beauty of life.
P.S. Beau­ti­ful scenic videos with bril­liant col­ors would be a nice com­pli­ment to some of the med­i­ta­tions. How­ever, we want the chil­dren to come up with their own visu­al­iza­tion, so it’s a hard decision.

Ines says

i’am glad to see that some one in the word care so much for all the chil­dren, and some so smart to know how to get the mes­sage to them, in a form that they will listen.

Burt i would like the infor­ma­tion on an audio thanks

Ines

Yvonne Donaldson says

Hi Burt,
I am a Kiwi from New Zealand and have 5 chil­dren and 15 Grand­chil­dren and one due in June, 2008. Now that my chil­dren have chil­dren of their own they pre­fer to work with the sys­tem the Gov­ern­ment has pro­vided for them and some of these pro­vi­sions are quite good, espe­cially in the Play Cen­tres and Kinder­gartens. I have been med­i­tat­ing, visuliz­ing and read­ing a lot of spir­i­tual books and found that what you have to say about the Genius Dip blew me away as it is true that our chil­dren need to be cre­ative and be allowed to use their imag­i­na­tion freely. As an adult I found it very hard to put this into play in my life, right now, but I am find­ing myself and what I really want in life which I have never been able to before. I would love to have your teach­ings so that I am able to down­load them from your site per­haps e-book, dvd or video. I would really love to give them to my chil­dren as a gift. I am sure that it would change their think­ing. I really enjoy your web­site and your free lessons.
I send Divine-Love and Light from my heart.
Thankyou.

Josey says

Hi Burt,

I really enjoy every­thing you do. Thanks for tak­ing the time to reach out to oth­ers with what you have learned. My lit­tle son loves books, so I’d be very inter­ested in a kids book or work­book that he can use (prefer­ably with lots of ani­mals and trucks:)! ). As far as for us adults, I always like downloads.

Thanks!

Steve Setera says

Burt,
The Genius Dip series was very inspir­ing and res­onated with what we believe and teach our daugh­ter. This is some­thing i would like to have been aware of many years ago with my older chil­dren as i am sure it would have made a huge dif­fer­ence in our fam­ily life and in their grow­ing up.
Thank you pre­sent­ing this infor­ma­tion as it is never too late.
Steve Setera PhD

scott and perlita sniffen says

Hi Burt,

First, we would like to com­mend you for this won­der­ful work you are doing for a bet­ter world in the future(our chil­dren). We would like to thank you also for all this great oppor­tu­ni­ties that you are pro­vid­ing us. A video dvd playable on iPod and a book will work for us. The dvd would be down­load­able from your site or iTunes and the book(workbook) can be sent by mail or from your site.
With Gratitude,

Scott and Perlita

Saleema says

For the past 28 years of my life, I have been employed with the Head Start Project, first in Dane County, WI, now in Okla­homan and Cana­dian Coun­ties, OK.
The pro­gram serves low-inocome chil­dren and their fam­i­lies and started in the six­ties after Pres­i­dent Johnson’s “War on Povery Act” (http://www.rfkineky.org/
project/poverty-war.htm).
One of the great­est fea­tures of this pro­gram, new for the those days, was its unique approach to edu­ca­tion. First of all, the child was con­ceived as a part of her fam­ily, eth­nic group, and social envi­ron­ment. All of her needs were con­sid­ered equally impor­tant as deter­mi­nants of her inel­lec­tual char­ac­ter­is­tics and aca­d­e­mic achieve­ments.
There­fore, a typ­i­cal Head Start class­room pro­vided (and still does) nutri­tion ser­vices, health screen­ings, men­tal health obser­va­tions, social ser­vices, edu­ca­tion screen­ings with follow-up indi­vid­u­al­ized les­son plans, and par­ent involve­ment in all areas of the pro­gram.
The child is viewed as a unique indi­vid­ual with a par­tic­u­lar set of abil­i­ties and needs, a learn­ing style addressed on daily basis in the care­ful set­ting of an envi­ron­ment (both phys­i­cal, emo­tional and intel­lec­tual) con­ducive to the devel­op­ment of self-confidence and worth, and self-initiated explo­ration.
She learns by mak­ing choices and mis­takes, facil­i­tated by the guid­ance of moti­vated, educated/trained, and lov­ing indi­vid­u­als. A qual­ity con­trol sys­tem is imple­mented on ongo­ing basis to assure that each indi­vid­ual is pro­vided with the oppor­tu­ni­ties to develop her inner abil­i­ties and progress into a self-motivated, life­long learner, and active mem­ber of the soci­ety she is part of.
For these rea­sons, amomg oth­ers, I am still work­ing and advo­cat­ing for the Head Start Project, to assure that the value of its social func­tion retain pub­lic recog­ni­tion and sup­port.
If this approach were main­taned beyond the preschool level, we would not be speak­ing of the Genius Dip, would we?

Sin­cerely,
Saleema Ra

Toni Luoma says

Hello Burt Goldman,

It’s nice to hear that you work so enthu­si­as­ti­cally for chil­dren. I just hope this is to empower chil­dren in their visu­al­iza­tion skills thru com­put­ers and inter­net instead har­ness­ing their power for your use, but I guess that’s what we do. The chil­dren are eager to help since they see older peo­ple fight­ing their own demons which they so clearly know from their dreams. Hope­fully the result of all this is to make the earth a bet­ter place for all concerned.

Toni Luoma

gladys h iglesias says

I would love to have a DVD of this topic. I have three great grand­kids who are astound­ingly inquis­i­tive and smart. I think a dvd AND a work­book would really be the thing for this topic.

Kordula says

Hi Bert

Highly inter­est­ing topic and thank you for this. I per­son­ally would pre­fer a work­book to be more flex­i­ble and to avoid any tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties, but a DVD with prac­ti­cal med­i­ta­tion guide would be fan­tas­tic too. Look­ing for­ward to more on this and hope­fully it stays a sim­ple process which is easy to fol­low . Thanks again & best wishes, Kordula.

Simon says

Hi Burt,

I would love to be able receive your teach­ings in MP3 or video DVD playable on an Ipod.
Pref­er­ence to down load direct from your site or Itunes.

Thanks

Simon

Nada says

Dear Burt,

as a grand­mother of 3 I find this sub­ject very inter­est­ing. At the same time I am very sad, as I have not seen my grand­kids for more than a year…
I would love to have a DVD please.
Thank you so much. You are doing won­der­ful life work.
I must add I love the DAISY POND, very relax­ing and soothing/ sorry, it s another subject/

all the best
Nada

Michele says

Hi Burt,

I think a work­book would work nicely. This way, I have I’ll have work­able excer­sises to share with my kids.

Michele

Ernesto Jacinto says

Hi Burt,

Already sent my reply via my email pro­gram. Still do not want to let you in any way believe or think I am not stick­ing to this topic 100% so he is again:

ines says

I am receiv­ing your lessons but I can’t down­load any of free med­i­ta­tion. I would like to expe­ri­ence some of your med­i­ta­tion but there is a mis­take or I haven’t enough knowl­edge. What can I do? Please help me cause I am not good in com­puter technology.

Darrel Astin says

Re: Your new children’s program

Dear Burt:

I am not a par­ent, so my input is less per­sua­sive. I am find­ing of late, that I am pre­fer­ring instruc­tional mate­r­ial in an audio/ video form. I would want the mate­r­ial on a DVD. Sec­ond choice would be a audio com­pact disk.

Truly yours

Dar­rel

vic says

Hi Burt
My grand­son who is 13 has an I Q of 130 now.I work with him on his imag­i­na­tion but would cer­tainly like to have fur­ther instruc­tions on a d.v.d
Thank You
Viv

Lesley says

My child was assessed as highly gifted IQ when 5.5yrs — 3 years of school and he was reassessed again — IQ now just above aver­age. The Genius dip in action. Need­less to say we are home­school­ing now. I am very inter­ested in any tools you can help my beau­ti­ful, tal­ented, intensely curi­ous, imag­i­na­tive (one of his heroes is Mr. George Lucas…) son to FLY. We are on our own here — no help finan­cially in Aus­tralia for visual/spatial dyslexic high IQ kids. Keep it com­ing Burt. By the way DVD with an audio option for exer­cises eg. med­i­ta­tion would be great. My son LOVES the DAISY POND. writ­ten words not so great for busy home­school­ers but I agree with the option for full immer­sion DVDs offer. Cheers, Lesley

Christine Williams says

I did acci­den­tally click on the can­cel sub­scrip­tion link on the last email that I received. With out read­ing what it said, I assumed I was click­ing a link to another video of Burt. If you could please dis­re­gard that and con­tinue to send me this infor­ma­tion, that would be great.
Thank you for your assis­tance with this.
Chris­tine Willaims

Christine Williams says

I would like to see the work come out in the form or a CD and or DVD

manuel says

video and pdf script just in case we have tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties her in Europe

drs. John-Dirk Hellingman says

Dear Burt,

Thank you for becom­ming so ent­hou­si­as­tic. It’s good to feel you are fine and how cre­ative you invite all of us to respond.
To respond mean­ing what? To respond is to make a con­nec­tion is it not.

To con­nect with what?
Well with what you rep­re­sent: an inspiri­ing cre­ativ­ity. Where does that con­nec­tion take place?
In what place is it?
And is it pos­si­ble for me and you to con­nect there?

It is in no place, isn“t it?
Is it right here and now?
mov­ing with­out mov­ing
liv­ing with­out tak­ing form
sound with­out words
Fascinating.…..

So can that inspir­ing cre­ativ­ity have “a place” where it can be
Is it in the meet­ing itself?
Is it in that very moment of where con­tact takes place
where myself and all the impor­tan­cies we hold on to falls to the back­ground and the meet­ing itself with the child or adult becomes more impor­tant.
Thats where rela­tion­ship starts and an unbound, free learn­ing, inspir­ing and cre­at­ing can take place

Enough,

We hardly read any­more.
We want every­thing quickly,
Here and now

And being able to repeat
As also I have been trained to through tv, media, school etc

So I sug­gest a dvd or pdf file

Doris says

Hi Burt,

I’m glad to know, that you are work­ing on this sub­ject and I’m excited to have your news in what­ever form you can make it avail­able. PDF would be slightly pre­ferred, as I like to have it in a writ­ten way.

Thanks and all my best wishes for you.

Doris

Karin says

Dear Burt,

Thank you for all your hard work, and I must say I appre­ci­ate what you are accom­plish­ing for every­one,
and maybe the kids espe­cially.
I would pre­fer DVD, as you will be inter­act­ing with
the kids.
Your paint­ings and pho­tos are awsome too! Pho­tog­ra­phy
is my #1 hobby. Thanks.

Ronald says

Hi Burt.
I think a DVD would be ideal.

Angelika says

Hi Burt!
Thank You very much! Me as a ger­man would find it a
lit­tle dif­fi­cult to read a book; the dvd would be
more effi­cient. In expec­tion of hav­ing grand­chil­dren,
the dvd will be the right tool, to do so much bet­ter
to bring the lit­tle ones to a cre­ative and peace­ful
life on our beau­ti­ful mother earth.

Michelene says

Dear Burt,
I am so pleased that you are work­ing on ways for chil­dren to learn and expe­ri­ence imag­i­na­tion and cre­ativ­ity. I also play daily with my grand­chil­dren with imag­i­na­tion and cre­ativ­ity. We play things like; danc­ing, singing, school, read­ing, fash­ion, roll-play, writ­ing etc. I think that your ideas are great and I would be very inter­ested in learn­ing more. I pre­fer video myself; Thank you again Burt; look­ing for­ward to your secret meth­ods regard­ing chil­dren, cre­ativ­ity and imag­i­na­tion. Exactly what we need in our schools today, Par­ent­ing classes and more.

Kerry says

dvd for the chil­dren and a book so all the infor­ma­tion could be stud­ied later is my advice.

Rita says

Hello,Burt! I saw your video clip on cre­ativ­ity I try to help my grand­dau­thers: one(Bella,she is 3 years old,another(Ruby-Jein,she is only 1 year old) My old­erst one is very clever girl!She like when some­body to read for her,shelike to watch DVD And I ask her what did she learn from the story.Burt! You have to put work out on DVD and a book.In a future I help them in becom­ing all that they can be!

Alba says

Dear Burt, your secrets of unleach­ing cre­ative poten­tial for kids, through video DVD would be fan­tas­tic, please, thank you so much for all your very inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion, much appreciated.

Mojca says

Dear Burt,

First I would like to thank you for all your good words I heard or read, and that oth­ers did.
Not enough peo­ple these days are speak­ing laud. But I guess there is not enough awaken cre­ativ­ity in gen­eral. The sis­tem of this world says FAST, and it says MONEY. On to hold that one, we some­where for­get to hold our­selfs. Less we do is look what we realy have in our­self. What we have, could reveal every­thing and it would solve many prob­lems, as we call “that”.…unpleasant things we usu­ally cre­ate by our­selfs to our­self or to oth­ers. Clear mind is no prob­lem, clear mind is all ways and free­dom. In inspi­ra­tion, look­ing to bright future, every­thing you wish you will have.

I sup­port your idea about the genious Dip. Last day I was in the store, some child ask his mother some­thing really smart, she didn’t know how to answer, it was sad. Then she told him to be quied, so she can shopp,…that was more sad.

P.s
If you do the video, and audio, as well in book, it wouldn’t be so bad.…

Mojca

Penny Haulman says

I believe one rea­son that chil­dren are less­ened in genius is that most ref­er­ences to chil­dren is to use the word, ‘kid’. Dri­ves me nuts! Kids are baby goats. Chil­dren are gifts of the Great Spirit, whom we call God.
I reared 6 chil­dren who are well adults. I love all chil­dren. Wish every­one loves them also and cher­ishes them as well. I never got in such a rut that I could not change direc­tion in a heart­beat, if any­one needed atten­tion else­where.
Thanks for your con­tin­ued sup­port for genius chil­dren and adults as well.

Jonathan Randall says

Dear Burt,

The most effec­tive way to expe­ri­ence your exer­cises would be via DVD and note­book form, too.
Thanks loads, Burt.

Sin­cerely,

Jonathan

Sameeta says

Hi Burt

This was a great video clip. I am really excited about this.I think a DVD for­mat with an ebook/workbook would be very helpful.

Ranga says

Dear Burt,
I agree 100% with you about the imag­i­na­tion as I am today what I have imag­ined in the past. Your imag­i­na­tion of HPHK ( Help Par­ents Help Kids) is a Won­der­ful Idea, and I would encour­age you to come up with more videos either in DVD or in You Tube.

Tharu says

I believe a lot of chil­dren out there could do with view­ing it on a DVD and of course guid­ing them with an ebook or workbook

Yana says

Dear Burt,
I absolutely agree that pre­ven­tion is the bet­ter thing to do and I wish you every suc­cess in the work you do and I THANK you.
For me per­son­ally, video is all right, but some­thing in writ­ing is always bet­ter because I do not depend on the com­puter and can read any­time, any­where. One ques­tion. I strongly believe in the great power of the mind and I am try­ing to work on myself. I am not yet con­fi­dent enough to teach my child and I know that my per­sonal exam­ple is the best teacher and that moti­vates me to go on. My hus­band how­ever, is quite con­ser­v­a­tive. He thinks that the books I read are some crazy stuff and I am very care­ful what I say and how I say it to my child. Can you give some advice?

janardan says

Dear Burt,
Thank you a lot for your won­der­ful insight into the the noble issue both­er­ing all of us today.We know all are born with the spark but why it signs off and how to keep it going is the sub­ject so inter­est­ingly dealt by you.From my own expe­ri­ence I find med­i­ta­tion is a def­i­nite tech­nique to keep the mind out from usual spin & sway thus retain the spark of the mind, we call genius.I will like to get more about it from you. In DVD pdf for­mat will be more useful,I believe.

Maria Jose says

Hi Burt

Thank you for worry about the wel­fare of the peo­ple, thank you very much, regard­ing your ques­tion I think that would be great on DVD, and also in pdf …
Thank you very much.

Ed says

Dear Burt,
Thank you beloved Genius soul for being an inspi­ra­tion to many peo­ple. What a won­der­ful dif­fer­ence you are mak­ing to human­ity…. Human­ity needs more peo­ple like you. You appear to be liv­ing by set­ting exam­ple to your­self and oth­ers includ­ing adults and children.

Awak­en­ing the dor­mant “genius within” is a real chal­lenge to most peo­ple includ­ing myself. In this new age, we do have that chance with appro­pri­ate inspi­ra­tion and imag­i­na­tion by com­bin­ing adults with chil­dren in com­mu­nity schools, so that both learn from each other with appro­pri­ate cur­ricu­lum using printed and elec­tronic media.

Marisa says

Hi Burt,

I was truly sur­prised when you came out with the Genius Dip report! I was actu­ally mean­ing to write you and ask how as a par­ent I can help my chil­dren excell in school. I didn’t because I was think­ing I was ask­ing too much after get­ting all valu­able read­ings from you for free! A book would be nice. Thank you and regards. Marisa

Gerry Wass says

Hi Burt,

Sorry for my con­fu­sion at the start of this thread; I guess my school has YouTube blocked and that’s why no link appeared. But I watched it from home, and it was good to see your pho­tos and paint­ings, some­thing I would not have got­ten the same feel from with pure audio or the printed page. I guess that makes a DVD the best bet for me, espe­cially if you can demon­strate your tech­niques by actu­ally using them with kids. I’m hop­ing there will be use­ful mate­r­ial for teach­ers in there!

Gerry

Steve says

Burt
I always look for­ward to your lessons and videos.DvD or CD would work good for me
Thanks Steve

Belita says

Hi Burt,

It would be great to have this on DVD so I can share with others.

I have a son who at 14 we dis­cov­ered had a gift for play­ing clas­si­cal pieces on piano. He is now 17 and still loves play­ing. He plays from the heart and mem­o­rizes all his pieces, mostly by Chopin and other great musicians.

He’s always been described as some­one who learned dif­fer­ently. Unfor­tu­nately, in this soci­ety, he was also labeled as hav­ing “learn­ing disability”.

With this gift in music, it really opened our minds about how chil­dren can flour­ish given the oppor­tu­nity to spend time with their imagination.

At age 14, I would have thought that it would have been too late for him to start learn­ing piano. He proved me wrong!!! He is now play­ing level 9 piano pieces and is lov­ing his new found talent!!!

Thanks for shar­ing this with us. I cer­tainly can learn more about our human mind.

chris says

I adhere to the demisti­fi­ca­tion school of thought and process. Keep it short, sim­ple and not too com­pli­cated. Book would be nice. Thanks, Chris

Muhammad says

Hi Burt ,

Would like both book form & DVD form.

Best regards,
Muhammad

doug says

Burt, you could add an extra fea­ture in brail for the blind.

Your focus is good.

A good dvd for­mat and a book would be the best approach.

Keep up the good work.

Regards, Doug.

Vycci says

Thank you Burt for your insight and your new found cre­ation on our chlidren’s abil­i­ties. I have a 14 yr old girl and a 2 yr old baby girl, and i am so deper­ate to revive my 14 yr old and to keep my baby a pure genius. My lit­tle baby is truly intel­li­gent and smart and i will do every­thing in my power to make sure she con­tinue to grow, and not be derailed by this world. Thank you again and i am loo­ing for­ward to your much needed infor­ma­tion. I am grate­ful for peo­ple like you who cares about oth­ers and are will­ing to use your cre­ativ­ity, knowl­edge and wis­dom to help oth­ers. I am a reader, but I think the DVD will be great because, watch­ing you on video is like sit­ting in a class­romm get­ting one on one help from a teacher, and noth­ing is bet­ter than learn­ing hands on.

Lorraine says

Hi Burt,
Another good video, I would like to receive a book, that then gives me instant access which is always how things hap­pen with me, when I want to do some­thing I want it now not wait until the com­puter “warms-up” or I find the video, a CD would not be so bad either access wise. Thanks for your sup­port I enjoy and look for­ward to hear­ing from you. Fond regards.
Lorraine

Victor says

Dear Burt, it is graet what you are doing! My choice would be a DVD, all the best and thank you!

Marianne de Zwart says

Dear Burt,

Your com­mit­ment to chil­dren is great.
They deserve it.

A book is prac­ti­cal, because you can read every­where.
A dvd is nice to be able to see and to hear. Another canal to absorb infor­ma­tion.
I look for­ward to your news.

Sin­cerely,
Marianne.

Richard says

Great idea Burt,
My pref­ered for­mat is either audio file of ebook format.

Lotus says

Yes, I cer­tainly believe ideas comes from a higher intel­li­gence and that all we need to do is to learn to be in that space and tap in. When we are at one with that space of the higher intel­li­gence, every­thing is pos­si­ble. If not now, it’s just a mat­ter of time and focus.

I am sure there are lots of things we could do with our kids and also ways that we could “Be” which would affect our kids in pre­serv­ing that genius mentality.

Right now, I don’t have any luck on your video above, it kept stalling.

As for pref­er­ence for receiv­ing teach­ing mate­r­ial, I still pre­fer the internet.

Thank you for shar­ing your stories.

Oscar says

Burt:
You are doing a tremen­dous work that will help human­ity for years to come.
I know my daugh­ter (8) will love to “meet” you on a DVD (or down­load­able video) with all the sto­ries, exam­ples, and tech­niques. A work book (pdf) with illus­tra­tions, exam­ples, and appli­ca­tions. And finally, CD or down­load­able audio for the tech­niques with eyes closed.
And since you are way ahead of every­body else, please, please, take a look at the pos­si­bil­ity of merg­ing these tech­niques with the Montes­sori approach, and the use of hemi­synch tech­nolo­gies for the con­di­tion­ing exercises.

Andrew S McCullough says

Dear Burt,

I need to take more time in my day to learn from you (and to com­plete my Silva lessons). Our adopted twins are still cre­ative, but I want to help them main­tain and increase that bless­ing as they tra­verse the pub­lic school sys­tem. I like the idea of a DVD, but Ger­man Moy­ano has a great point — a YouTube video would or a video on your web­site would be a won­der­ful gift to the world!

I (!) need your lessons even more than do my kids, but your par­ent­ing lessons will be appreciated!

ASM (Andy)

Ombaf says

Thanks for your work Burt.
I have loads of chil­dren, nephews and nieces I would love to see their tal­ents unleashed. I have no doubt they are very intel­li­gent, but unfor­tu­nately no one knows how to tap this poten­tial. Can we really see their cre­ative tal­ents?
A DVD and ebook would be a good combination.

Darina says

Hi, Burt. Please con­sider the fol­low­ing:
Chil­dren are “killed” by being taught to be praised, com­pared, to be like the other peo­ple. Most of the peo­ple as of now, with the present sys­tem (polit­i­cal, edu­ca­tional and so on ) are intel­lec­tual, but not intel­li­gent. So intel­li­gent per­son is viewed as actu­ally stu­pid. Intel­li­gence is the oppo­site of mem­o­riz­ing — it is inter­pret­ing in a new way. Con­nect­ing two ideas, not log­i­cally con­nected, and putting them together.
If you are inno­v­a­tive, you are dif­fer­ent, then you have hard time hav­ing friends, and you might choose to agree with the mass. (You real­ize you don’t want to be dif­fer­ent at about 14)
The road of inno­v­a­tive and imag­i­na­tive per­son is very hard. It is against estab­lish­ment, it is about exper­i­ment­ing, and against just agree­ing with what is.
I was in uni­ver­sity and can tell you that I had hard time doing papers on some­thing, when I had to read a lot of books and make a “the­sis”, and that is how you get your degree, it is very far from hav­ing your own orig­i­nal piece of work.
Think about busi­ness, today every­thing is busi­ness, the more robotic peo­ple are, the more praises they receive.
Even art is a busi­ness — if you can get the money to adver­tise and pre­tend who you are, peo­ple who are busi­ness­men (not artists), will buy your work pre­cisely BECAUSE it is a good invest­ment.
I think the main thing to teach chil­dren to keep their cre­ativ­ity is to allow them to make mis­takes, and praise them for doing things not in the way they were told to do it by us. Oth­er­wise they will be RECREATIONS of us. And the world will die. And, also, to some­how get to them the idea that they do not need to be liked for who they are.
Because they are per­fect. Com­par­i­son and crit­i­cism is a no-no. Most of the time peo­ple are false because they have to be like this or like that. Imag­ine a man going on a busi­ness meet­ing dressed dif­fer­ently than with a suit (for a man)! Imag­ine you go for n inter­view show­ing cre­ative think­ing by hav­ing a crazy style!
It is a very chal­leng­ing thing to do, very chal­leng­ing. The whole sys­tem is based on peo­ple being thought to obey, and not to cre­ate. To be like some­body else’s idea, and not theirs. All the geniuses were ridiculed when they were young.
I hope that you let par­ents know that before they decide to keep their child a genius:)

Rahul says

Hi Burt,

Great videos and pdf descrip­tion. Just a small sug­ges­tion, to adjust your per­spec­tive from view­ing the goal as “pre­ven­tion” to one of “main­te­nance” and con­tin­ued “growth”.

Since, kids are already geniuses, they need only con­tinue being geniuses. I’m 32 and remem­ber decid­ing as a child that I didn’t want to be like the adults who closed off their minds to new ideas and became “set” in their ways.

I’ve caught myself sev­eral times in the last 10 years, get­ting into habit­ual thoughts and modes of being and hav­ing a really good laugh. I imme­di­ately encour­aged myself to do things a lit­tle differently.

For exam­ple, in col­lege I started writ­ing the alpha­bet using my left (non-dominant) hand and occa­sion­ally brush­ing my teeth with my left hand. Inten­tion­ally tak­ing dif­fer­ent routes to and from work, even if they’re equidistant.

To sum up, my two cents… pre­ven­tion through maintenance.

German says

Dear Burt,
It is really nice to have such a nice friend as you are. I was just telling my mother I now have a good friend who is over eighty. Con­cern­ing my opin­ion on the ques­tion you have arisen, I think the best way to pub­lish your work to the majoriry of peo­ple all around the world, is to mount it on a video in youtube.
Thank you for being an enlighten human being and for shar­ing most of the wis­dom you have acquired through your life.
God bless you.

Ger­man Moyano

Irma says

It’s amaz­ing how you started out with your paint­ing.
I oved your art work and your les­son in creativity.

I also, agree that pre­ve­tion should start with children…

await­ing to hear more

Carole says

Burt, Sev­eral years ago I had a dream. One of those dreams that seem so real. I will never for­get it. In the dream there was a seg­ment of which included your paint­ing of the Chateau. May I ask you if there is a flower shop down on the street below, under­neath the Chateau?

irene says

Hi Burt,

I would love to share this dis­cov­ery with my 19 year old daugh­ter. A book cou­pled with a dvd sup­ple­ment would work won­ders for her learn­ing style.

You are leav­ing this world with a great legacy. Thank you, from the bot­tom of my heart.

Irene

Markus says

Hi Burt,

First of all, I want to thank you for the won­der­ful work you do. Your lessons changed my life and I am really thank­ful for that. May your teach­ings reach out to peo­ple all over the world and make our planet a bet­ter one to live on.

Fur­ther­more, I am really con­cerned with the genius dip (I am a 17 year old stu­dent from ger­many). I totally agree with you to empha­sise cre­ativ­ity in the child­hood. To my mind, the most effi­cient way to reach a great amount of peo­ple and first and fore­most young­sters as I am, is through the inter­net. Think of the huge quan­tity of peo­ple you reached and still reach with your home­page, or the 7 lessons you offer for free. I can’t imag­ine any other way to pub­lish such impor­tant words as you have with such a great impact than on the internet.

Your videos like the one on top of this page really touch me and address both, the visual and the audi­tory sense and thus are per­fectly suit­able for every­body. In addi­tion, it is a very per­sonal way of learn­ing and accord­ingly highly efficent.

This is why I pre­fer online lessons and would be really pleased to receive the solu­tions to The Genius Dip in the form of a movie.

Curi­ous to hear from you,
Markus

Leila says

Hi Burt,
a DVD would be ideal. Thanks for all your hard work.

Titomo Sakihama says

Dear Monk. DVD and book. Do you know why? Abroad there are peo­ple who can read, write but feel dif­fi­cults lis­ten­ning Eng­lish. Among my friends, grad­u­ated at University,(more or less one hun­dred peo­ple), only two of they can lis­ten­ing Eng­lish. One is an Enge­neer and another is a Eng­lish teacher. Any­way a trans­la­tion into Por­tuguese is the best way to reach Brazil­ians peo­ple. Most of books in Brazil are from Amer­i­can ori­gin, trans­lated into Portuguese.

Gayle DeGraff says

My career is plac­ing trou­bled teenagers into res­i­den­tial treat­ment pro­grams. I talk to many stressed-out par­ents every day, and hear a plethora of dif­fer­ent prob­lems they’re expe­ri­enc­ing. Fre­quently the issues are aca­d­e­mic, and since I first came across your Genius Dip infor­ma­tion, I have been refer­ring fran­tic par­ents to your web­site. Very often what these par­ents have is a very intel­li­gent child who is not being ade­quately chal­lenged and I know that you have answers for all of us. These par­ents have been very grate­ful for the “solu­tions”, as am I. I’m expect­ing my 12th grand­child in Novem­ber and I’m anx­ious for my chil­dren to learn these valu­able con­cepts so that they can make these beau­ti­ful grand­chil­dren into the best they can be, on all lev­els. I would like to see the con­cepts in a book so that I could refer back to the knowl­edge read­ily. Thanks for your invalu­able resources!

Dodo says

Hi Burt. Really enjoyed your talk on cre­ativ­ity. My view is that wis­dom for the ages should be in a form that could still be accessed eas­ily even if tech­nol­ogy goes, hence I would pre­fer to receive your work in a book. A sup­ple­men­tal DVD would also be fine to make the mate­r­ial more rein­forced to the senses, while an audio for­mat would addi­tion­ally make it portable. I’m look­ing for­ward to it soon. More power to you and God bless

Olawale Lawal says

Hi Burt

Your tips have been very great and I have been shar­ing your expo­si­tions with friends and fam­i­lies around me.

I think on DVD will be great.

Wale

Patricia Spendiff says

Hi Burt,

Thank you for your short clip on cre­ativ­ity. I enjoyed it and am always moti­vated after hear­ing you speak. I would sug­gest that you put the work out on all three medi­ums i.e. DVD, Audio and a book. I realise that that would be a lot of work for you but it would serve its pur­pose by reach­ing the mul­ti­tude as they would be able to see, hear and read your work.

Regards,

Patri­cia

Sylvester says

I would just like to let you know how much I have appre­ci­ated your efforts to share your knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence espe­cially on chil­dren as I have three active ones on hand.

As I am strug­gling with my own demons now, I am not sure if I can afford what comes next but nev­er­the­les your tips so far have been a great help.

Con­tinue the fan­tas­tic work.… God Bless

Michael says

Hello Burt
As a par­ent i always tried to get our chil­dren to use there imag­i­na­tions, for exam­ple i would often bring home car­board boxes for them to play with. These card­board boxes became cars or houses or boats and they would play with them for hours and come back and play again sev­eral days later and the box would become somthing else. I found that by using sim­ple objects like this for play it would be far more ben­e­fi­cial and fun than a shop bought toy that was only designed to be one thing.
I would also make up sto­ries and adven­tures about my chil­dren based on dreams that we had for them, and they loved it when some of these dreams came true.
Our son has a very high I.Q. and runs his own con­struc­tion busi­ness and our daugh­ter is an Accoun­tant and is liv­ing in Canada. I became a teacher.
Thanks again Burt, keep on open­ing boxes for us look in through your eyes.

Regards Mike

Avi says

Dear burt,

Just saw your clip on the art­work you’ve done and the talk about kids. I loved it and I think a dvd with a work­book for chil­dren would be lovely. they can watch you each day and have an exer­cise to do as their home­work. You are doing a great job and you are right, when kids are taught from a young impres­sion­able age then they grow up to be won­der­ful grown ups.

thanks Burt for the won­der­ful job. Keep going!!!!!!!

Avi

Mary Madeline says

Hi Burt,

Thank You for shar­ing your art work — it is won­der­ful to know you can do any­thing you want in life as long as you put your mind to it. It is just to find the process that works for you.….…. Your work is amaz­ing. = )
The medi­ums that I like is both visual & audi­tory and I love to read. Are you going to make it for only par­ents or also chil­dren to view/read? My chil­dren loves to read, but they are very visual as well. Maybe a mix of things would be good. A DVD with a work book!? Look for­ward to see what you have in store.

Love,

Rev. Mary Madeline

http://www.toolboxforemotionalmastery.com

Mark Thompson says

Hi Burt: Thank you for your won­der­ful video clip on “Com­bat­ing the Genius Dip — The Solu­tion Is In The Pipeline!”. I am very inter­ested in your idea of how we as par­ents can help our kids retain and even grow their cre­ativ­ity. I too believe that the for­mal school sys­tem is lack­ing in devel­op­ing, in my opin­ion, this valu­able method of achiev­ing suc­cess in adult­hood. I would pre­fer to have a work­book in order to help my 6 year old son Bray­don in becom­ing all that he can be.

Sin­cerely,
Mark

Vesna says

Hi Burt,
You are I ray of hope in this busi­ness of edu­cat­ing children.I was a very busy mom of three chil­dren but I think that had some advan­tages: I had not had time to argue with them about things they should or should not have done.The lit­tle time I had I used to play with them and help them only if they asked me to.They are all grown ups now and happy people,but they have some heavy demands on their own children.The soci­ety seams to expect more of the new generation.So, my four grand­chil­dren turn to me for sup­port in vent­ing their complaints.What should I do? Help, please, if you can .Thanks.

paul says

hi there you are an inspi­ra­tion to all ages and all walks of life burt per­son­aly i like to read but i think a dvd would apeall to a wider audience

heidi says

Hi Burt,

I find your pres­ence very calm­ing and reas­sur­ing. I think that chil­dren would love to see you on a video. It would be a great teach­ing tool for par­ents to watch with their chil­dren. I have a 6 1/2 year old daugh­ter who is inher­ently cre­ative. She has a gift for draw­ing beyond her years and really enjoys cre­at­ing art. How­ever, just recently she has dis­cov­ered online children’s sites and is spend­ing time play­ing on the com­puter. I wanted to exper­i­ment with this so I allowed her to freely play on the com­puter when she felt like it. She sud­denly had no inter­est in draw­ing (she had spent hours every night in the past cre­at­ing art) and she also seemed to get “bored” more often. I then told her that the com­puter was off lim­its and that she had to be cre­ative and think of fun things to do. She imme­di­ately took out her water col­ors and began to paint. Then last night, she put on an impromptu pup­pet show for my hus­band and I. I’m not anti com­puter. How­ever, I really think that chil­dren should be lim­ited to the amount of time they spend on it. Again, every­thing in moderation.

Shalom,

Heidi

Bobbi says

I used to sit down with the kids and read to them all the time they’d gladely turn off TV or what ever. Then I used to sit and talk to them and imag­ine things they were inter­ested in and things they had no idea about. I’ve spent 20 years lis­ten­ing to boards of review for scouts. Sadly a lot of them couldn’t carry on a con­ver­sa­tion. Try­ing to get them to say more then a word and explain some­thing was impos­si­ble some­times. Give them time to be them­selves and give them time to just dream is exciting.

Sinead says

I might tell my Aunt about this so she can help unleash the genious in my lit­tle cousin! Ah, that would be so cute.

Dennis McCoy says

Burt:

I would love to receive your new mate­r­ial in DVD and writ­ten, i.e Portable Doc­u­ment For­mat (.pdf). DVDs cre­ate the most immer­sive expe­ri­ence for me and if I wanted to show the mate­r­ial my grand­chil­dren, that would be a nat­ural medium for them to experience.

The machine read­able Portable Doc­u­ment For­mat, when tied directly to each DVD les­son, makes it easy for me to locate a key con­cept quickly, when I want to go back and review spe­cific material.

Thanks,
Den­nis McCoy

Sinead says

…I am eigh­teen. I guess that means I am kid (though I don’t like to be called one)… does that mean I can be a genious at draw­ing? Mom my says my draw­ing skills are decent.

Really good pic­ture shots. So you didn’t pra­tise at all? Whoa.

…Your art used to be stick-figures and then you could draw a moun­tain screen? 0_0

I like that Mys­tic Light House because I like water. I am not a par­ent… but could this still help me unleash my genious? Um…

I think that DVDS are bet­ter than read­ing but… I guess if I have to I would lis­ten to it. I am more of a visual learner though. I like media and dvds.

Sophie says

If I could share with you some of my secrets of unleash­ing cre­ative poten­tial for your kids, how would you like to receive it? Would you pre­fer it through a video DVD, audio, or a book?

Dvd would be ideal

amonk says

Hi Gerry,

you can find the video above

look­ing for­ward to read your thoughts

Burt

Gerry Wass says

I’m anx­ious to see this but I can’t find a link to the video!

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