Short spoken advice by Joe Polish urging listeners to reframe perceived ‘craziness’ in partners as a form of complementary genius. The speaker uses metaphors (two eyes/binocular vision; two wings on one bird) and a personal anecdote (husband’s discovery) to encourage curiosity, questioning, and collaboration in relationships.
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And you're so busy looking for where they're wrong rather than seeing that they have a genius that you don't have. When you fall in love, you're like two eyes that were one. You had one eye until you met your partner, and now you can have two eyes working together in tandem to give you binocular vision. Like two wings on one bird. And you're busy criticizing their genius because they're genius. You can't see the genius. Your job is to look for the genius behind your partner's crazy. It's always there. Just keep asking questions. My husband used to think I was crazy until he kept asking, asking, well, why do you do this? Why? When he got right down to it, he was like, oh, my God, you're a genius. And thank God he kept going, there. There's a genius behind your partner's crazy. If you can get curious and they're here to show you the missing genius that you don't have because you just one eye thinking you can see everything. But you need both in collaboration so you can see beyond.