Wendy K. Laidlaw

Well, yeah.

And it's not just the ones who are ignored or rejected.

The ones who excel in all the conventional ways are at great risk.

Because if we're not connected to the essence of ourself, the higher we go, the more we move away from who we are.

And so for all, you know, because I've worked with the children of the privileged families.

And if children have too much privilege, they have less chance of finding out who they are.

And in the end, that's what matters.

It doesn't matter what it looks like to other people.

When you get down to it, whether it's because you find yourself in exile, or you have an illness, or you lose a loved one, or you have a meaningful separation or a divorce, what matters is who I am when I am with myself.

And who we are as ourself is actually a greater, more specific, more valuable thing than we usually think.

And like I keep saying, when the world is in this kind of condition, we cannot expect the outer world to give us a sense of center and meaning because it's losing its own center.

We have an inner center.

You could call it the soul or call it the deep self.

And that's what we're here to discover.

So a number of things happened to me.

So people will say, well, how do you find your genius?

And it's not an easy thing to say, because if it was, everybody already would have figured it out.

And so part of the issue is that the genius is unique.

So the way you discover it can be unique.

And that's why a person's story, like we talk about nowadays, is so important.