Don’t let the common current be yourself narrative that’s all about the subjective opinion and taste of different people make you think that this is all there is when it comes to being yourself and not pandering to the system. There’s more to the story. You and I know that there’s deeper and more important stuff about yourself that you should not hide anymore in the name of being humble, politically correct, nice, or not selfish, or any of that abusive or abuse justifying crap. Stop resisting carrying the burden of the responsibility of being competent. Being special or exceptional isn’t something that passively runs inside of us all the time for free. It’s something that we have to push ourselves to keep activating it all the time. It’s something that we rise to, not something that comes to us. It’s not skill or being able to overcome obstacles or hurdles, it’s not something that makes you win more at life. It’s being more alive, with greater potential and capabilities, even if you can’t extend that to external results. Even if you can’t win at anything because of or by relying on any of that. Understand that it’s not that you can win others or produce external outcomes that impress others or that others can’t do as easily. It’s about you being capable of stuff that occurs inside of you that others cannot even understand or don’t even believe such things can exist. If you keep focusing on wining outside regardless of how good you are, you’ll become good at winning in life or overcoming common struggles or challenges. You’ll be a greater, better, or more competent person. But you will not necessarily remain great in terms of intelligence and cognitive ability. Realize that this may not be all that matters, but nothing can matter, and nothing can have any kind of meaning without you holding on to your unique greatness, which is your creative potential, cognitive ability, general intelligence, …etc. You will not even become like an average person. You will be nothing at all. Because the average person is on fire all the time. This is their 100%. But you are running on zero percent all the time. And you can’t be better at anything than anyone else as long as this is the case. The point that I want you to get here is that you should stop hiding or holding back your uniqueness just to not offend anybody. I want you to unleash. Be fully you, not just the parts of you that will appeal to the general population. You know you’re better than that. Stop pushing yourself like others through pure motivation and brute or crude strength of will only, and start relying on your cognitive super powers, for once!

Cast aside that intelligence neutral or indifferent motivational material and give in to who you really are. Stop being ashamed of being smarter than the rest of us!