A Quick Quote Response

A quick something I wrote as a response to the quote: The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” – C.S. Lewis, writer:

Although it sounds prettier to imply that people often try to make themselves stupider- the reality is that often the world around you becomes so harsh that you forget your capabilities. You have a choice at that time, which is to either work really hard, harder than ever before, because you know you are capable of more, or to learn to believe that this is the limit to your capacity. By choosing the latter, you choose to make yourself stupider. A beautiful quote that applies to this situation is: “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination,” by Marianne Williamson. If the quote is reality- then the greatest courage required in the world is to be able to reach this potential- a potential that we are often aware of- but allow ourselves to forget due to difficult environments.