2 things that all genius people have in common

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Genius is not explained at all by superintelligence, but by creativity - the ability to use imagination in solving any problem.

Thinking outside the box

Take Benjamin Franklin, for example. With little or no schooling and learning on his own, he became a major inventor, diplomat, scientist, writer, and politician in the American Enlightenment. He proved that lightning was electrical in nature and invented a way to curb it. He measured the temperature of ocean currents, becoming the first to accurately map the Gulf Stream.

The fate of Albert Einstein developed in a similar way. As a child, he started talking late. And because of the rebellious attitude towards the then education system, he was in bad favor with teachers.

He questioned and pondered all the knowledge he was gaining that would never have occurred to well-trained adherents of classical education.

And the slow development of speech skills in childhood gave him the opportunity to observe with interest the everyday phenomena that others take for granted. Later, Einstein turned our understanding of the universe upside down, developing the theory of relativity and quantum theory. To do this, he questioned the basic idea described by Isaac Newton: that time moves sequentially, second by second, and its progress does not depend on the observer.

Or think of Steve Jobs. He, like Einstein (who played the violin when he was at a standstill in his work), believed in the importance of beauty. He believed that the arts, the exact and the humanities should be connected with each other. As you know, after dropping out of school, Jobs enrolled in calligraphy and dance classes, and later left for India in search of spiritual enlightenment.

Curiosity

But perhaps the most outstanding genius can be considered Leonardo da Vinci. He thought both as an artist and as a scientist, thanks to which he was able to visualize theoretical concepts. In his own words, he was a follower of experience and experiment. His most inspiring trait was curiosity.

Thousands of pages of the diaries left after him are full of questions that interested him. For example, he wanted to know why people yawn, how to build a square equal in area to a circle, what causes the aortic valve to close, how the human eye perceives light, and how this can be useful in drawing. He decided to study the cow's placenta, crocodile jaws, the muscles of the human face, and moonlight.

Da Vinci wanted to know everything there is to know about everything there is, including space and our place in it.

His curiosity was often directed towards things that ordinary people only think about in childhood (for example, why the sky is blue).

Some people can be considered geniuses in a particular field, for example Leonard Euler in mathematics, Mozart in music. Da Vinci's talents and interests spanned many disciplines. He skinned the faces of corpses, studying the structure of the muscles, and then wrote the most famous smile in the world. He examined human skulls, sketched bones and teeth in order to reliably depict the torment of St. Jerome.

Da Vinci was a genius, but not just because he was smart. More importantly, he was a model of a universal mind, a man whose curiosity extended to everything around him.