Accessing the mind of a Genius

Antano was twenty-three, at the Yahoo Hack Award, presenting to a strict panel including Yahoo's VP flown in from the US. They had four and a half minutes. The demo ran perfectly in practice. On stage, the server crashed. In front of the panel. Antano looked at them and said: the system crashed, wait, I'm fixing it. He finished the demo. When he walked off, the entire room was clapping.

Peak states are not reactions. They are preparations. A genius does not get into state when things go wrong. They are already in state. That is why when the server crashed, the response was not panic. It was command. Accessing the mind of a genius is not about studying what they know. It is about inhabiting the states they operate from.