Brilliance is subversive Anyone who puts together a complex Lego kit needs smarts. But building an intricate, one-of-a-kind structure with thousands of Lego pieces requires unconventional thinking. Brilliance has a twinkle to it. It’s spirited, and sometimes even a little bit naughty. You may need to keep those brilliant flashes of insight and inspiration to yourself because they may not always be socially appropriate. As one of my favorite writers, Walter Kirn, explained to me, “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing going on.” Without an interior life in which to blossom,
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