Friday, 10 January 2014

The Smartie-verse

"She's really smart" is never something we say on the Joberts Team. The question, of course, is never "Is she smart?" but "How is she smart?"

When we keep in mind the eight intelligences, we realize that we all have talents and gifts, and that we are all geniuses. Genius is something we all possess, it's really just a question of finding it, practicing it, and using it for it's highest and best good. Genius is not easy, but it's there. As Thomas Edison so famously said, "Genius is nine tenths perspiration and one tenth inspiration."

On the Joberts Team, our official candy is Smarties. They remind us that we are all smart, in different ways. Just like the different colors of the candy. This metaphor reminds us that when we use all of our collective intelligences
as a class of 54, we can accomplish absolutely amazing things. We are geniuses from the Smartie-verse.

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