About this episode

Marie Chindamo discusses with Michele Jennae the concept of inherent brilliance and how it can be reclaimed through understanding polarities.

Host Marie Chindamo welcomes Michele Jennae, creator of the EDG Butterfly Map and founder of Everyday Genius X365, to discuss how brilliance is inherent in everyone but often dimmed by rigid schools and workplaces. Michelle shares leaving a government job after seeing capable people “calcify” into conformity, and explains her framework for reclaiming genius through polarities—paired tensions like certainty and wonder, structure and flow, visibility and solitude—illustrated as butterfly wings ...

People in this episode

Host: Marie Chindamo

Guest: Michele Jennae

Topics covered

• genius
• creativity
• education
• workplace culture
• personal development

Keywords

• genius
• creativity
• polarities
• education
• workplace

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Everyday Genius X365, EDG Butterfly Map

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