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thrivemarket.com slash inspirational thank you you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. Today's reading has been edited and adapted from

the book, Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brand, published in 1934.

The Genius Keeps for All Their Days, the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in its expanding world.

Many of us keep this wide-eyed interest well into adolescence, but very few mature men and women are fortunate enough

to preserve it in their routine lives. Most of us are only intermittently aware, even in youth,

and the occasions on which adults see and feel and hear, with every sense alert,

become rarer and rare with the passage of the years.

Too many of us allow ourselves to go about wrapped in our personal problems, walking blindly through our days

with our attention, all given to some petty matter of no particular importance.

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