Meaning has tremendous economic value.

I think that by working more, we’re actually imagining less. If people don’t imagine then the future can’t get built. Or more accurately we don’t know what future we’re building.

Now, obviously it’s going to take a great deal of work, I’m not saying otherwise. What I am saying is that the time we spend outside the box is just as valuable as the time we spend inside it, even economically, and that that can be proven. One need only look at the way the most brilliant among us spend their time to know that the most creative types, have unconventional work schedules. Wharton organizational psychologist, and New York Times Best Seller, Adam Grant’s work, highlights this. In fact many great thinkers were known for their procrastination.

Next, I aim to prove that the angle from which you look at something changes the way that it’s seen, even the dimension in which its seen.

Consider for example, a person growing old as a metaphor to illustrate what I’m saying.

While they’re growing, they’re moving through life, and they can only see what’s right in front of them, they don’t know what’s in the future. There’s no way to literally see that.

However, when they’re an old person they can look back on their life journey as if they were viewing it from above and understand the entire experience in an instant, innately, in a way and level of detail that is indescribable by words, even though it’s something that originally was spread out over the dimension of time.

If they wanted to share it, they would in fact have to tell a lifetime’s worth of stories to scratch the surface.

When you’re going through life you see in fewer dimensions than when you look back upon it internally.

So by default everyone who has memories, has a rich inner world, at least in so far as a single frame of someones vision is among the most beautiful pieces of artwork we can imagine.

What if we actually stopped seeing people by their outer world and began seeing people by their inner world.

What if it’s actually what we build in our inner worlds that’s matters most.

I believe that this is what separates a genius from someone who’s gifts are not fully expressed. A genius lives in their inner world.

Actually, anyone can be a genius. I believe that even outside of a religious context all human beings, all conscious beings for that matter, have bubbling up from within them an inner spark of meaning and purpose.

Unfortunately our legacy industrial era institutions reshape us all to their ends, leaving many or most of us detached from our voice, and even our bodies.

For I believe that this inner voice resonates from deep within the body, and that connection with the body is the means by which you connect to your inner voice.

The best part is it’s easy. All you have to do is ask yourself, what’s the first step?