The tale of Brilliance and Action

Brilliance awoke one morning and, just like every other morning that Brilliance had been alive, he started to think.

He imagined truly wonderful things; saw grand schemes of monumental importance, dreamt up solutions to smooth the way to success, and his mind’s eye reached beyond the horizon. His ideas bloomed with potential, warmed his heart and inspired the essential lifeforce within his soul. Brilliance let his ingenuity run into places that only the boldest of visionaries would dare to go. He did this because he knew who he was; that his name meant spectacular, and releasing his insatiable creativity upon the world would seize its attention for sure…

That morning Brilliance had a dream…

On the other side of town, a more ordinary scene was taking place. In fact, for Action, this was a typical morning too. Her day had started a little earlier, not much, but earlier than most. She wasn’t flamboyant nor fanciful, and she wasn’t a day-dreamer either. That wasn’t to say that she didn’t have an imagination — she just didn’t dwell on it for longer than the day required. You see, Action was a doer. And that morning, just like every morning, Action got to work turning one of the simple ideas she truly believed in into a reality.

Meanwhile, Brilliance continued visualising his incredible, unimaginable, multi-dimensional, colour-fantastic, sense-tingling (and ultimately utterly unfeasible) dreams of success…

The moral of my little story: Action moved while Brilliance soared and faded: and the same thing happened the next day, and the next, and the next…

Caveat: Not all brilliant people are stuck in a daydream, but most could do with some action to help them along.