Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
I had the chance to work with a few people I&#x27;d consider genius level.  While I&#x27;m pretty smart myself, they all have something I don&#x27;t always have:  The ability to be happy in any situation and interested in everything.<p>For example, we were walking trough a hallway. On a wall is an old, damaged, ugly map of my country, half covered with graffiti.  I&#x27;d walked past it almost every day for half a year.<p>He checks it out, and starts noticing a lot of semi-interesting factoids about names, merged cities, obscure places, old mapping conventions, etc...  All of this with an absolute positive energy of pure interest.  We spent a fun hour just looking at it.  I should have known all this, and yet an hour with him makes me look at it with new eyes.<p>Wherever he was, he instantly attracted a group of friends and wannabe girlfriends, and never really seemed to notice.  Same in this case:  There was a group of beautiful partygirls we&#x27;d never met before, no nerdy interests at all, which accreted around the map in less than 5 minutes. They loved the situation just as much as us nerds did.<p>I learned a lot from him, and try to follow this example, but I still can&#x27;t do this today and am humiliated (in a positive way) by this way of living.