Genius

                                              Genius 

Genus has multiple meanings, including a biological classification rank and an electricity metering company. Extraordinary intellectual power, especially as manifested in creative activity. A person endowed with transcendent mental superiority. – A  person with exceptional ability, esp of a highly original kind - ability or capacity.

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Very great and rare natural ability or skill, especially in a particular area such as science or art, or a person who has this - artistic/creative/musical genius.

Genius is a talent for producing something for which no determinate rule can be given, not a predisposition consisting of a skill that can be learned by following some rule or other. This individual is highly effective and successful in their endeavours.

This individual is highly effective and successful in their endeavours.

If you score above 130, then you have a score higher than the IQ ranges of the average population, and below 70 would be lower than the average population. Superintelligent or gifted people get an average score of 120 to 140, and only about 2% of the population scores more than 130, considered to be a genius.

The nine types of intelligence are: Naturalistic, Musical, Logical–mathematical, Existential, Interpersonal, Linguistic, Bodily–kinesthetic, Intra, and Spatial intelligence.

Smart people ask questions, seek knowledge, and are eager to learn new things. They have a thirst for knowledge and are committed to lifelong learning. They actively seek out opportunities to expand their knowledge and skills. Critical Thinking: Highly intelligent individuals are skilled critical thinkers.

How do geniuses behave? They include quick learning, interest in unique topics, and the ability to process information fast, among others. Some other habits or behaviours that may indicate a high level of intelligence or genius in an adult are: Tendency to have slightly cluttered living areas and workspaces.

Genius involves originality, creativity, and the ability to think and work in areas not previously explored, thus giving the world something of value that would not otherwise exist.

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." — J. Krishnamurti. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." — Albert Einstein. "The intelligent man has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more."

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Genius is associated with intellectual ability and creative productivity.

Genius involves originality, creativity, and the ability to think and work in areas not previously explored, thus giving the world something of value that would not otherwise exist

There is no scientifically precise definition of genius. When used to refer to the characteristic, genius is associated with talent. Walter Isaacson, biographer of many well-known geniuses, explains that although high intelligence may be a prerequisite, the most common trait that defines a genius may be the extraordinary ability to apply creativity and imaginative thinking to almost any situation.

 People with genius tend to have strong intuitions about their domains, and they build on these insights with tremendous energy.  Several people who have been regarded as geniuses were diagnosed with mental disorders; examples include Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, John Forbes Nash Jr., Domantas G. and Ernest Hemingway.

In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. For Kant, originality was the essential character of genius. Genius is a talent for producing something for which no determinate rule can be given, not a predisposition consisting of a skill for something that can be learned by following some rule or other. — Immanuel Kant. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer.

In the philosophy of Thomas Carlyle, genius is called "the inspired gift of God"; the "Man of Genius" possesses "the presence of God Most High in a man". The actions of the "Man of Genius" can manifest this in various ways:   - "transcendent capacity of taking trouble" -- "an infinite capacity for taking pains"), in that he can "recognise how every object has a divine beauty in it" as a poet or painter does, or in that he has "an original power of thinking". By his Great Man theory, Carlyle considered such individuals as Odin, William the Conqueror and Frederick the Great to be "Men of Genius".

In the philosophy of Bertrand Russell, genius entails that an individual possesses unique qualities and talents that make the genius especially valuable to the society in which he or she operates, once given the chance to contribute to society. Russell's philosophy further maintains, however, that it is possible for such geniuses to be crushed in their youth and lost forever when the environment around them is unsympathetic to their potential maladaptive traits. Russell rejected the notion he believed was popular during his lifetime that "genius will out".

In his classic work The Limitations of Science, J. W. N. Sullivan discussed a utilitarian philosophy on the retrospective classification of genius. Namely, scholarship that is so original that, were it not for that particular contributor, would not have emerged until much later (if ever) is characteristic of genius. Conversely, scholarship that was ripe for development, no matter how profound or prominent, is not necessarily indicative of genius.

Genius is a very extreme degree of three combined traits—intellect, zeal, and the power of working. Genius nearly always incorporates ability, creativity, mastery of a domain, and other personality traits such as autonomy and capacity for endurance.

Like all human traits, these so-called “multiple intelligences” are thought to be distributed relatively evenly throughout a population. It is likely that the genius, however, is born with extraordinary capacities in at least one of these areas. Gardner’s eight key intelligences can be used to illustrate genius in particular fields. Great writers possess linguistic intelligence; brilliant scientists have mathematical-logical intelligence; eminent artists display spatial-visual intelligence; great musicians are born with musical intelligence; accomplished dancers have kinaesthetic intelligence; great leaders excel in interpersonal intelligence; successful therapists have intrapersonal intelligence; and well-known explorers have naturalistic intelligence. Neuropsychologists have sought the physiological foundation for these intelligences in the human brain, and there has been a race to develop appropriate means of assessing each of these capacities.

The singular, unique trait of genius is creativity. Not knowledge, not a phenomenal memory, not intellectual curiosity, not even analytical intelligence.

Geniuses typically do have all of those. But not all men who have even all four are geniuses. It is a subset of an already very tiny group to begin with. Those other four in the case of the majority of geniuses, are 'mere' givens, table stakes, essential but not nearly enough.

No. The hallmark that marks out genius from mere intelligence or even brilliance is its very ability to connect various ideas and see patterns which nobody else has even thought of.

There is a saying - “Genius hits the target that talent cannot even see.”

1.     Knowledge can be acquired.

2.     Memory can most definitely be trained.

3.     Curiosity can be cultivated.

4.     Analytical intelligence is admittedly hard to take beyond a certain point because, much like looks, it is largely inherited as a genetic trait, but you can at least push it to the furthest extent that your natural lottery will let you.

But creativity?

It’s either there or it isn’t. You simply cannot train and develop a Newton, Mozart, Van Gogh, or Machiavelli, no matter how hard or for how long you try.

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.”

1.     These people believe in quality and not quantity

2.     They hate small talk- highly intelligent people want to have meaningful conversations.

3.     They get annoyed by people- highly intelligent people are more likely to get pissed off by people’s actions because they find some arguments trivial or behaviours quite foolish. Their level of thinking does not understand some behaviours, and so it may annoy them.

4.     They hate confrontation-

5.     Most are perfectionists- highly intelligent people work hard at what they do and may expect it to be perfect.

6.     Highly intelligent people like working alone. It allows them to think and avoid disruption. They also like relaxing without the noise.

7.     Highly intelligent people may be empaths. They absorb emotions in crowds, and at the end of the day, they may be exhausted. That's why highly intelligent people hate crowds and noisy places.

QUESTIONS

What are several traits of a genius?

There is a legend about Mozart taking to train the young son of a rich nobleman on how to compose music. Mozart asked him to start with something simple, like writing a symphony, to which the man said, “But you, sir, wrote an opera when you were merely eight years old.” To which the great genius replied

“Yes, I did. But I did not go and ask someone else how to write one.”

The singular, unique trait of genius is creativity. Not knowledge, not a phenomenal memory, not intellectual curiosity, not even analytical intelligence.

Geniuses typically do have all of those. But not all men who have even all four are geniuses. It is a subset of an already very tiny group to begin with. Those other four, in the case of the majority of geniuses, are 'mere' givens, table stakes, essential but not nearly enough.

No. The hallmark that marks out genius from mere intelligence or even brilliance is its eerie ability to connect various ideas and see patterns that nobody else has even thought of.

There is a saying - “Genius hits the target that talent cannot even see.”

We live in a society today where anyone and everyone is told that they are creative, and that word 'genius' is thrown around all too cheaply.

But true genius is rare. Very rare.

You know how every once in a blue moon, you meet a person who recognises deep links and patterns in things that until then lay before your eyes for years, but you simply did not perceive even though you saw?

‘It makes perfect sense now, but how come I never thought of it in that way, despite it being in front of me for so long?’

The greatest gift of genius is also ironically its greatest tragedy. because all too often geniuses think in such a different and unorthodox manner that others, even of a high intelligence, don’t even see or understand it, thereby often mocking them. It’s like they were speaking a language alien to others.

Richard Muller here on Quora hit the nail head in a recent answer when he said that great and original scientific research finds very little funding or support.

Because the world likes to reward merely more efficient versions of what it already knows, trusts and is familiar with.

Back to those other four traits….

5.     Knowledge can be acquired.

6.     Memory can most definitely be trained.

7.     Curiosity can be cultivated.

8.     Analytical intelligence is admittedly hard to take beyond a certain point because, much like looks, it is largely inherited as a genetic trait, but you can at least push it to the furthest extent that your natural lottery will let you.

But creativity?

It’s either there or it isn’t. You simply cannot train and develop a Newton, Mozart, Van Gogh or Machiavelli, no matter how hard or for how long you try.

Tell me now, what comes first to your mind when you think of the four names up there? Isn't it how original they were? Because there were thousands of brilliant scientists, artists, composers and thinkers with all the knowledge, memory, curiosity and IQ of those men who didn't even come close to those great souls.

No, when you raise the bar of genius being someone who does not merely excel in a field but actually contributes an entirely new way of thinking or a revolutionary technique or, in the greatest of cases, invents a whole new sub-branch in that field, that is not merely high intelligence.

That is creativity. That is what advances and powers a whole field of science or art, or philosophy forward. Without it, even with all of the analytical intelligence in the world, the field is like a hamster running on a wheel, just faster and faster but in the same place. It is that new way of thinking that provides the breakthrough.

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.”

Which ones are the traits of highly intelligent people, and why is that?

My list is not conclusive, but highly intelligent people may:

1. Do not have many friends- these people believe in quality and not quantity, and so if they can have three friends who understand them, they'll be okay.
2. They hate small talk- highly intelligent people want to have meaningful conversations. They are not likely to talk about the weather or what color you want on your drap, but they want to talk about global warming, implications of the resolutions of the UNSC…things like that.
3. They get annoyed by people- highly intelligent people are more likely to get pissed off by people’s actions because they find some arguments trivial or behaviours quite foolish. Their level of thinking does not understand some behaviours, and so it may annoy them.
4. They hate confrontation- they believe that there is another way of settling disputes other than fighting. They believe in order and so confrontational behaviour will set them off
5. Most are perfectionists- highly intelligent people work hard at what they do and may expect it to be perfect.
6. They tend to be loners- highly intelligent people like working alone. It allows them to think and avoid disruption. They also like relaxing without the noise.
7. They are mostly HSPs- highly intelligent people may be empaths. They absorb emotions in crowds, and at the end of the day, they may be exhausted. That's why highly intelligent people hate crowds and noisy places.

 

What is the definition of a genius? What makes someone a true genius, rather than just good at what they do?

There is no official definition of what constitutes a “genius.” The psychological community has never reached a consensus about that. Instead, “genius” is something that people feel, individually, about themselves or another person, and the definition (if you can call it that) of genius is entirely subjective.

Since we now understand that the definition of genius is subjective, I will tell you my definition. You should note that these are just arbitrary criteria that I came up with myself. Not based on any research or experimentation. I’m highly intelligent, but I’m not a psychologist, and you can expect the professionals to probably disagree with me. If they do, I would say that you should defer to their definitions over mine.

To me, a “genius” possesses two traits in combination…

1.     IQ more than three standard deviations above the mean (146+ for most IQ tests these days).

2.     Incredible creativity; the ability to take a foundation of knowledge and increase that knowledge by creating something new.

Many people have one of these traits, but not the other. To me, a genius must have both.

As for the second part of your question, I would say that, to me, what makes the difference between a genius and somebody who is just good at what they do would be the creativity factor. It’s one thing to be very good at your profession. It’s another thing to take your knowledge of your profession and evolve your profession.

 

I define genius as the ability to make connections between seemingly unrelated topics.

'Genius' employs the use of high intelligence (deep knowledge of multiple subjects) and high creativity (the ability to think of something new and innovative, which has objective value).

The doctor understands the physics of water and how the human body functions. Making the connection between the two is an example of the use of genius, and it is especially valuable because it helps him save a life.

What constitutes genius?  Who is called a genius and why?

A genius for me walks in untrodden paths. They create their paths, not using previous knowledge as more than stepping stones. They can be far in the future, see needs that yet don’t exist, think in totally different ways, or just like doing a thing for its own sake. Rewards, results, honour, and glory - those things have little interest in them. Their interest is in growth, personally and in their circles.

Genius cannot be developed; it must manifest. To be a prodigy is the expansion of a gift, not an exercise in pursuing what is not there. Mozart was a genius. Stephen Hawking was a genius. Elvis Presley was a genius. Aristotle was a genius. Leonardo Da Vinci was the ultimate genius.

 

What is genius?

1. Genius = Intellect + Imagination + Competence
2. Genius = Inspiration + Creativity + Excellence
3. Genius = Talent + Ingenuity + Brilliance
4. Genius = Mastery + Originality + Inventiveness
5. Genius = Knowledge + Application + Artfulness
6. Genius = Individuality + Innovation + Magnificence
7. Genius = Idea + Motivation + Intelligence
8. Genius = Muse + Illumination + Resourcefulness
9. Genius = Logic + Emotion + Creativeness
10. Genius = Wisdom + Understanding + Experience
11. Genius = Action + Intuition + Fearlessness
12. Genius = Reason + Emotion + Diligence
13. Genius = Faith + Hope + Shrewdness
14. Genius = Nature + Spirituality + Perfectness
15. Genius = Mind + Soul + Transcendence

What does it take to be a genius?

NOTHING -ALREADY ARE!

 

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." — J. Krishnamurti. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." — Albert Einstein. "The intelligent man has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

 

The brain is adaptable to new things, and continuous practice can create skills that did not exist before. Learning is a way of developing and not reaching one's potential. High achievements in any field require hours of training. Buckminster Fuller said, I’m not a genius. I’m just a massive bundle of experience. Einstein had extremely high intelligence, but he genuinely loved his pursuit of relativity. He was constantly curious to adopt new ideas. And it meant everything to him. To build genius, you’re learning program must be based on the high applicability of newly acquired skills and knowledge.

 

23 Genius Quotes from Albert Einstein That Will Make You Sound Smarter

 

Einstein's birthday was March 14, 1879. He would be 137 years old. He did so much to help people understand how the world works. His exploration profoundly changed humanity's search for meaning. Not everyone can be as smart as Einstein, especially since it was discovered upon dissection that he had an extra fold in his brain. You can, however, think and sound like a genius simply by reading and repeating the brilliant sayings he shared over the years.

 

Here are some of the best.

1.   "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

2.   "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

3.   "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

4.   "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

5.   "The only source of knowledge is experience."

6.   "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

7.   "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

8.   "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

9.   "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its reason for existing."

10.                  "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

11.                  "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

12.                  "The only valuable thing is intuition."

13.                  "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

14.                  "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

15.                  "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

16.                  "Information is not knowledge."

17.                  "I never think of the future -- it comes soon enough."

18.                  "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

19.                  "To succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear for failure."

20.                  "Education is not the learning of the facts, but the training of the mind to think."

21.                  "I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success."

22.                  "You never fail until you stop trying."

23.                  "Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person."

24.                  “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its reason for existence.” – Albert Einstein

25.                  “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas Edison.

26.                  “Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.” – Stephen Hawking

27.                  “If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.” – Barbara McClintock

28.                  “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” –  Sir Isaac Newton

29.                  “My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me. My success will be what I make of my work.” – Homi Jehangir Bhabha

30.                  “He who can listen to the music in noise can achieve great things.” – Vikram Sarabhai

31.                  “Chance favours those who are prepared.” – Louis Pasteur

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