Explaining the genius mental statefrom @kolbykirschner

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Most people never access the smartest version of themselves. Not because they're not intelligent, but because they never enter this specific mental state. There's one strange pattern shared by some of the most brilliant people in history. And once you see it, you start noticing it everywhere. It helped Nikola Tesla build his inventions in his mind before they came to life. It helped Michael Jackson hear entire songs in his head before he started recording them. But almost nobody talks about it. Probably gonna botch this, but in Japanese, there's a word called botosuro. And it means to become so deeply absorbed in something that the outside world disappears. But here's what's strange. The greatest minds didn't work harder. They entered a state where the problem followed them everywhere. On walks, in the shower, half asleep, staring out the window, laying in bed at night. Their conscious mind would focus hard on the problem, then hand it to their subconscious. And that's exactly where something weird would happen. Patterns would appear, connections that other people couldn't see, new ideas, new pathways, answers that felt like they came from somewhere else. Tesla used to take long walks after obsessing over engineering problems. Then suddenly, a solution would appear fully formed in his mind. And this is the exact reason why some people can spend ten years studying something and never fully reach better. Because information alone doesn't create genius, total immersion does. You become deeply obsessed and immersed in something. Your brain continues to work even when you stop. And eventually, you stop looking at the world like everybody else does and you start seeing things that other people can't.