How to Raise a GENIUS: Always Ask Them THIS One Question

There's a technique that can transform a child today into a genius tomorrow. It sounds bold--maybe even unbelievable--but the principle behind it is the same one that separates super achievers like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Henry Ford from everyone else.

The technique is remarkably simple. But its simplicity hides profound power. Because it addresses the biggest scourge of human development: the following mode.

The Following Mode: Why Most People Stay Stuck

Think about how we develop from childhood. As a child, you mimic those around you--parents, older siblings, the world around you. When you enter school, you do what your teacher tells you. When you go to church, you follow the clergy. In the military, you follow superiors. At your job, you follow your boss. When you vote, you follow politicians.

This pattern--the following mode--is extremely limiting. And it traces back to prehistoric times when humans were essentially animals of nature, automatically reacting to the environment around them.

A child will not become a genius as an adult if they remain stuck in this damaging, limiting following mode. Their entire life becomes reactive--absorb and spit back out, absorb and spit back out.

The One Question That Changes Everything

Here's the simple technique that can break your child out of the following mode:

Here's how it works in practice:

Your child comes home from school. You ask, "Hey, what did you do in school today?" Your child responds with the usual: "We did this, we learned that, we had this activity."

Most parents stop here. Maybe they say "Oh, that's nice. Did you have fun?"

But if you go one step further--if you ask "What did you think about that?" or "How did you feel about it?"--something remarkable happens.

The Ancient Pattern You're Breaking

Three thousand years ago, humans existed in what's called a bicameral state--automatically reacting to events happening around them. Everything was two-dimensional: see and react, hear and react. Like a monkey or a dog--pure reactive behavior.

Before we discovered how to become truly conscious and enter our inner mind space, there was no introspection. No subjective thinking. No self-directed decision making.

When you ask your child "What did you think about that?"--you're recreating this same evolutionary leap on an individual level. You're opening up a dimension that wasn't there before.

Expect "I Don't Know"

Here's what parents need to understand: when you first start asking this question, your child will likely respond with "I don't know."

This isn't resistance. This is exactly what should happen.

They're saying "I don't know" because you're asking them to enter a whole new dimension they've never explored. Becoming a conscious being--a self-leader instead of a follower--isn't easy. Especially when children have no example of self-leadership around them, because most adults are also stuck in the following mode.

Keep asking. The awkward pause, the startled moment--that's the breakthrough beginning.

How This Creates Geniuses

When you open up a child's inner mind space so they start becoming more conscious and thinking more, they develop curiosity--a quality children trapped in the following mode are largely void of.

Greater and greater curiosity leads them into a path, a vector--like Elon Musk's childhood fascination with space, Henry Ford's obsession with taking apart machines and putting them back together, or Steve Jobs' early interest in design and electronics.

Most super achievers can trace their success back to turning points in childhood. Something triggered independent thinking. Something opened their curiosity.

As a parent, you can give that to your child. You can be that trigger. This is the greatest gift you can give them.

Why Starting Young Matters

Brain patterns formed early become permanent. Consider this: an adult who moves from a Latin American country to America will find it nearly impossible to lose their accent. But bring a child from Latin America to America, and they naturally lose the accent because of how brain patterns form.

The same principle applies to the follower pattern. Break that pattern young, and self-leader thinking becomes natural. Wait until adulthood, and the rewiring is much harder--though not impossible.

Get it while they're young and early. Don't let their brain patterns stay stuck their whole lives, which unfortunately happens to most people.

Why This Seems Too Simple

This technique seems almost too simple to be consequential. But there's a reason for that.

Great breakthroughs throughout history are often right below our eyes. They're obvious--but we don't see them because it's not about seeing. It's about making an adjustment in how we think.

Once you see it differently, it's so obvious that it drives you insane that everyone isn't doing it. This is what Mark Hamilton calls the Obvious Theory: the most consequential changes are often the simplest, hiding in plain sight beneath our normal thought patterns.

What About Adults?

If you're an adult reading this, wondering "Is it too late for me?"--the answer is no. But the process is different.

Breaking into the self-leader mentality as an adult requires systematic training. The brain patterns are more established, so the intervention must be more comprehensive.

This is exactly what Neothink provides. Mark Hamilton has spent 45 years developing techniques that pull adults out of the following mode--the stagnant routine rut where people wonder "Isn't there more to life?" but never find their way out.

The answer is yes--there is something more. And the path to it starts with breaking free from the following mode that's been limiting you since childhood.