Speaking of meaning, when ideas or projects have captured deep souls’ interests, they will likely become engrossed. But once motivation is kindled from within, there is no stopping them. Deep souls are unlikely to feel satisfied following the crowd or implementing without purpose. When a deep soul finds her spark, it’s like turning on the ignition and the fuel burns red-hot. They aren’t trying to be smug when they require meaning in their lives. If they can tie into one of those, then motivation runs high.ĭeep souls aren’t divas. Meaning usually connects back to deeply-held values, interests, or strengths. Deep souls think in 4D and the ever-present fourth dimension is meaning. In fact, without meaning, they probably won’t do it. Meaning is at the heart of everything deep souls do. Risk-taking is essential for true innovation and deep souls take the greatest risk in being themselves. They need opportunities to exercise their independent thinking. Deep souls tend to hold freedom as a top value. Independent thinking offends the crowd it causes those who are content to follow to feel threatened.
There is constant pressure to toe the line, follow the norms. The flip side of stubbornness is courage. The pressure to conform is so intense that it can take stubbornness to protect one’s unique identity from being absorbed. Their independence might seem like stubbornness. They might do what others are doing, but only if they’ve come to their own conclusions that it’s worthy. They cringe at the idea of blindly following the crowd.
If it makes sense or seems purposeful they might play, but only on their terms. They won’t mechanically follow rules to play the game they need to know the reasons behind the rules and for playing in the first place. They don’t just take your word for it-they’ve got to figure it out themselves. Bravely Independentĭeep souls are independent all the way around. Here are seven commonalities that deep souls tend to express when they are being purely themselves. If you feel you are a deep soul, you probably are. Most human beings have deep soul characteristics to some degree. My hope is that this designation, “deep soul” will help millions of us understand ourselves more clearly. People have unique constellations of strengths that vary in intensity. So you may be a deep soul who says, “I’m this and this, but not this.” That’s ok. Whenever you make a category somebody gets left out. Please know that I don’t love to categorize people. (besides a past or present disconnect with school) Over the past two decades, my work with at least hundreds of deep souls, coupled with research in the fields of creativity, psychology, and education, has helped me to identify seven characteristics that they tend to share. Until I connected the dots for them, demonstrating the paradox, holding a mirror up to their creativity, and proving that the most eminent creators in history had a similar rub with school. This disconnect with school continued to undermine their confidence and self-concept even as adults. Even those that were academic successes often felt that they had to give up a part of themselves to achieve. Some aced their tests but refused to do busywork, others ditched class in favor of the library, and still others checked out altogether. They were often told they were dumb or wrong or lazy. The underlying structure of our current educational system runs contrary to the way they think.īecause they think differently, adults and other kids couldn’t figure them out. These words also run us into a problem, the number one commonality among these thinkers: school did not fit them. The words highly creative, gifted, or innovative touch on aspects, but they only capture a sliver of their essence. I can spot these thinkers like a botanist can spot a special plant species.įor years, I didn’t have a word to characterize these people who I love so much. I could have written hundreds of these descriptions. Those most able to solve problems in new ways and These are descriptions of some of the most brilliant people I know, She’s game to try anything and she’ll keep working until she’s figured it out. She always has interesting friends coming in and out of her house, and has 50 projects going on at once. He uses pieces and parts to create surprising but effective solutions. He understands the inner workings of things and how they fit together. She’s the person I go to who always has a new perspective, a new way of looking at a problem. He reads slowly but remembers everything he’s read, using this random knowledge to make unusual connections. Listen to the audio version of this article here.
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