We’re taking this intelligence, the thing that has made us successful as a species, this ability to predict in complicated environments and take this action. We’re making it cheap and basically abundant. And in a way, that’s kind of like providing you with a team of support around you to help execute on your idea.
Mustafa Suleyman
This statement is typical for a CEO in the business world but it completely misses the bigger picture and bigger problem.
Intelligence is not the limiter in executing ideas.
You, your “self,” are the limiter.
In effect, people are striving to express their ideas everyday. They can write them out succinctly in a short tweet or in more detail in a larger blog post.
The problem they have isn’t writing their ideas out.
Their problem is pressing the button at the end to share the ideas they’ve just written out.
In effect, if you’re afraid and fearful of publicly expressing and sharing your ideas, good luck in trying to actually execute on them.
I said this years back, that people have very little fear in trying something new. What they have fear in is sharing something new that they’re exploring.
Intelligence is not the limiter.
Our existing sense of “self” is the limiter.
This is what vertical development, as an embodiment of psychological growth and development, is all about.
It’s about creatively getting out of your own way by letting go of your old sense of “self” so that your larger sense of Self can emerge.
This is embodied by the shift beyond a Self-Authoring Mind, whereby it needs to let go of knowledge as being the be-all and end-all, so that the person can let go of trying to be an “expert” of knowledge and instead transition to being an “expert” of knowing themselves.
That’s where true wisdom lies.