Practically a Genius or Practical Genius

Last weekend I was sitting in a bar with two internet marketing geniuses. I was immediately reminded how much I enjoy and am turned on by genius. There guys aren't the kind of heady, top heavy geniuses who can do one thing better than anyone else but are just plain weird when out of their narrow element.

These guys live real lives, they have kids, they take care of their family's. Certainly they work a lot, but it isn't really work to them. They love what they do and would do it whether they were getting paid or not. They don't do anything for money.

This particular evening work was done and they were ready for pleasure. Pleasure took the form of connections with intelligent company. Practical geniuses like these guys make sure they spend time with wonderful people, people who have something to offer, people who are curious, people who enjoy learning more than knowing and people who enjoy taking a risk.

The older of the two, I will call him Zeus, though that isn't his real name, mentioned that long ago he went to a Chamber's Brothers concert and that there were two other performers there he had never heard of. One of them, he searched for the name, was Jimi Hendrix, the other was "that female singer, you know."

Janis Joplin I guessed. "Yes."

He wasn't just a practical genius he was lucky too. Imagine accidentally getting to see such icons in concert. The story of the concert was simple, but it was also inspiring. It had me think of times when I had expected one thing and got something much, much more wonderful tha
I could have imagined. His initial story set the tone for the hours of conversation that were to follow. We explored the magical world of practical geniuses, how coincidences shape important events and how looking back on turning points in life can lend perspective, allowing one to relax into the future.

I wish you had been there. You would have enjoyed it. If there is one thing that practical geniuses love it is other geniuses. The air crackled with possibility as we danced over high points of our lives, providing new perspectives for all of us as one story built on another, time and space disappeared, we weren't in a bar anymore, we were carried away by the wonderment that life and good company provide.

We danced in the wonder and mystery of life while also speculating in true novelist style about the relationship between the bartender, the guy running the bar and the new bar maid. Boundaries between topics were scarce as one topic flowed into another, the only thing missing was social dis ease as we basked in the company of each other's love of life, liberty and the pursuit of pleasure.