I received quite an interesting email today from one of my smartest friends, who for now shall remain nameless.  This friend has been struggling for a while to get out of .... what to call it?  A rut, for lack of a better word.  And it seems like every few months I get a probing, questioning email like this that shows everything that is brilliant about her (oops, now I've given away gender).  So the question is, how to get out of that rut?  I don't know.  Much like there is that fine line in The Fountainhead where Howard Roark tells Gail Wynand, "You weren't born to be a secondhander," it is also true that my friend was not born to be anything less than brilliant.  But my somewhat pithy little quote is hardly a roadmap to brilliance -- just an observation.

I suspect that part of my friend's problem is that she really doesn't believe the world deserves her at her fully brilliant best.  I can't argue with that.   It doesn't.  But I do.  And so do others like me.  And we will trade our best for it.  I wonder if she won't consider that?

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