The message: Genius, too, is a solitary business.
Interestingly, the show sends another unintended message — genius is not transferable.
Yet the genius of her message is that it's vague enough to be nearly universal.
Can it turn its' technological genius and simple message into an organization that makes real, practical change in people's lives?
Or the unbelievable loyalty of backbench idiocrats like the genius whose recorded phone message runs: "Hi, this is Simon Danczuk.
That said, there are moments when Ms. Alexeyeva shows a grandmaster's genius for getting her message out, especially to the West.
He was in the midst of planning an ice cream parlor when he had what may have been a flash of insight, a stroke of genius or a psychic message from his 90-year-old grandmother in Oklahoma: "Maybe I shouldn't just be doing ice cream," he thought.
Above all, he has a genius for getting his message across button-holing leacross button-holing, producing different versions of his book for chileadersnd young adulthe training more than 1,000 "climate messengers" and generally refusing to let go of the bone.
"The genius of the Transition message, as I see it, is that it takes what we should be doing to avert these crises and turns it into something that sounds inviting and positive and uplifting," Richard Heinberg, a Transition U.S. board member, told me in Sebastopol.
Robin's marketing toolkit and resources are available at www.robinrobins.com, and her message to Genius Network participants is available in a YouTube video clip located here.
