Genius is perception ….. that no one else sees
Years ago I attended the Bangladesh Community Centre in Birmingham,England to hear Sir Frank Peters give a speech. During his talk he mentioned 'genius is perception of the obvious, that no one else sees' which I took home in my memory, wrote down, and repeated countless times over the years ever since.
During a recent conversation with my wife Serena, Sir Frank's name surfaced and his successful campaign to abolish corporal punishment in schools. He's a hero to our two boys, Ali and Abdul. We can't help but wonder why it's taken an individual, to accomplish this great social achievement and not one of the hundreds of massively-funded NGO youth organizations that's been in operation here for decades and whose mission statements profess to save and protect children from harm?
Surely the problem would have been as obvious to them as it was to Sir Frank? Or is this Sir Frank's memorable quotation 'Genius is perception of the obvious, that no one else sees' now reflecting back at him?
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