Everyone should be in a job that they like and that they are good at and the better that society places people in jobs that they are good at, the more we will all enjoy the productivity of our civilization. This is one of the basic tenets of Plato's Republic.

What type of degree would a creative genius wish to get? A creative genius will create in just about any endeavor that they are thrust into as long as they feel at home and enjoy it or if it challenges their mind. But why does a creative genius need a degree to get a job?

After all, they could be self-employed too, as 10% of the population is and 75% of the population works in a small business and most of those folks do not have any advanced degrees. Not all creative geniuses choose to pursue an academic career, although many do.

So if we are looking for the best place to find creative geniuses in society we have to look beyond academia and people in corporate America. Where should we look?

Well, I suppose some end up at the top of the food chain and thus socially speaking this is a good place to find the imminent achiever creative genius. Other creative geniuses probably allow them selves to be walked on and taken advantage of, because they see the game as perhaps not worth playing.

Maybe they are simply not interested in the sound and fury of mankind and all the emotional sound bytes on the TV or the myriad of gossip topics that prevail in normal conversation. Therefore it appears a creative genius can be found just about anywhere and they probably do enough to fit in and join in the benefits of strength in numbers and rewards of socialization and hopefully find something they really like or excel at and go do that.

Plato warns us about this and tells us that each person is good at something and should do what they are best at and be alleviated from those things they are not good at. For instance, I am an entrepreneur, I should not have to sit in an office and do paperwork. I hate paperwork, accounting and such. So that is what I should be doing - building, creating, achieving, winning, etc.

Someone else who is good at something should be doing what they do best right? Perhaps you can hear what I'm saying and see the reality too. We can teach children at an early age to work on their self-esteem and allow them to taste success in something and then use those successes to transfer into other aspects of their life.

If children learn an early age the types of things they are good at and excel in those regions and in work on the things that they are not good at to better themselves they should have no problem finding a job later in life if they are a creative genius.