“If genius is the creative intelligence of an individual, Scenius is the creative intelligence of a group.” -Brian Eno
“You are the average of the five people you hang around the most.” -Jim Rohn
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: [People] learn as they teach.” -Seneca
Instead of figuring out your genius, why not find your Scenius?
So many of the greatest scientific discoveries, works of art, even businesses, have sprung from a community of people each inspiring and pushing each other to do their very best work.
Author Ryan Holiday talks about this in a recent blog post below…
There are very few solitary geniuses. There are very few artists, philosophers, or creators who do great work in isolation. Think of The Transcendental Club, the scene that coalesced (and was funded by) Emerson in Concord in 1836: Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Peabody. Think Lost Generation, the social cohort of expat writers—Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, among others—that came of age together in Paris after World War I. Think of the Bloomsbury Group of the 20th century, which included Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keyes. Think of the Paypal Mafia—Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Elon Musk. Think of the students that hung around with Socrates, Xenophon and Alciabiades and Plato. Think of the Scipionic Circle, which met at the house of Scipio— one of Rome’s greatest generals—to discuss philosophy, share ideas and explore Stoicism.
No one does it alone. Find the others.
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