Beautiful Mind - by Bettina Perroni

Midnight, I fill my lungs with air and I submerge into the water… Then I float and extend my arms swimming slowly while I observe the dark sky full of tiny diamonds. The sound of water on my ears is a little bit strange, the pressure on my temples, the pressure on my whole body… even my own vital sound, paused, constant and rhythmic…everything is strange.

I can swim the whole night: I begin thinking: I ask myself how great ideas are born?.

Are they motivated due to a necessity? Probably that is the main reason, the motor, the source… who knows?

I would like to have a great idea in this moment, a brilliant idea, one of those ideas that changes the world, that identifies a generation and solves a big global problem… and why not?... I would like to be a heroine who saves a far world 2 seconds before a bomb explodes. Do I sound dramatic? (just kidding)

But thinking in my real world and analyzing its situation, I have found great theories that don't convince me at all. Really! I think environment, economy and heritage are segments that make us pay the high costs of ignorance. Anexpensive invoice, paid by innocent human beings.

We like to be practical, dynamic and precise people… now, in this modern digital age we strive to resolve everything with a "click". Everything is simplified. Everything can be done from home or from the office, or even "from the pocket". So, even those precious moments to enjoy and do "nothing" have been stamped with a plan to do "something". I am afraid that one day we are going to have the necessity to return to our primitive life. Walk instead of drive, count with abacus or even fingers, use a pencil and finally reflect instead of follow the rules imposed by the modern society that drive us as a collective mind.

How a great idea is born?

How to awake the genius within?

We all have an opportunity to amaze. I think we have multiple possibilities although our mind was wired in school "to learn" "to obey", letting the creative and analytic senses in our brain fall sleep.

Engineering or mathematics, philosophy or medicine are good examples of a re-evolution, the measurement of a new era. We are so focused on the conquest that there is never enough. The hunger for knowledge is huge and it does not matter that we put to sleep the fact "TO BE"… the great dilemma of our entire life.

Why not embrace the belief that we can have beautiful minds?- That reminds me of John Nash-. A mind that contributes, a mind that does not follow rules but suggests new processes, a mind that do not memorize what it learned but instead will create, invent. How can we stimulate the genius within?. Maybe we need to pay more attention to our thoughts because they are where the sleeping genius lies. We have to write down our ideas but keeping them in written form is not enough… a good idea will be nothing if you don't share it. Remember that all great ideas have been shared.

… that's what I thought while I continued swimming and counting those tiny diamonds in the sky… waiting on my great idea to shine although… its absence is evident .