I think genius is specific to a skill or situation because people can be brilliant at one thing and retarded at another.
2006-09-06 18:37:06 · 9 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
GENIUS USUALLY FIGURES EVERYTHING OUT....SEEMS TO HAVE AN EXTRA TOUCH NO MATTER WHAT HE TRIES....SUCCEEDS AT CREATIVE AS WELL AS CLEVER AT THE MUNDANE....CAN DO ANY AND ALL THINGS. EQUALLY AS WELL...NEVER AT A STAND STILL FRENZY.....AND THEN......WHOEVER FIXES WHAT YOU CANT.. WHEN YOUR E IN A JAM......YOU RE SO THANKFUL HE LL ALWAYS BE A GENIUS IN YOUR EYES....
2006-09-06 18:41:45 · answer #1 · answered by flowerspirit2000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is "genius" as a description of a person's ability in one area, but there is also "genius" as the word used to describe a person of superior intellectual ability. Depending on which IQ test is used, genius is generally defined as a score that goes beyond a certain point on the bell curve.
You're right that a person can have amazing skill or talent in one area but be average, or slightly above or below, in other areas. There is, however, such a thing as a person who scores high across-the-board on tests that measure different types of skills.
A person of superior intellect generally goes through life seeing things differently. This person sees a bigger picture in more detail and remembers not only much of what he sees in this picture but much of what he has encountered in the past (longer than some people may). Because this type of intellect tends to be curious, such a person probably also adds to his knowledge through studying (either formally or on his own or both).
While apparently there may be some connection between "math genius" and mental illness at times, it is a myth that superior intellect in general has to also lean toward mental illness. It doesn't. There was studies done (Terman Studies) years ago that followed highly gifted school children into adulthood. While, from what I've read, there may have been some dispute as to certain aspects of the studies, what those studies saw was that the highly gifted children were often also the most well adjusted in adult lives.
Anyone who studies up on the different degrees of intelligence and the different types of intelligence will come to realize that genius isn't a very mysterious thing at all. Neither is it all that rare.
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2006-09-07 02:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A genius is someone who thinks outside the lines on the paper, off of the page, into the wide open regions of space, and into the inner parts of the heart and soul. Vincent Van Gogh, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Albert Einstein,
Aaron Copland, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, and my father were all geniuses. Some of those people could not get to the grocery market and home again.
2006-09-07 01:41:55 · answer #3 · answered by soxrcat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Genius is the ability to discover an idea so abstract it's before it's time to be discovered and is only genius as long as other people can follow that concept, because afterward no matter how true it may be you are doomed as society's madman because no one understands you.
Genius depends on other people to believe it's genius!
Genius is borderline insanity.
2006-09-07 02:14:14 · answer #4 · answered by Psychia22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all..."retarded" isn't a good word to use...I have a girlfriend who has a daughter who is "mentally challenged" and there were several times I would use the word just like you did and it bothered her, and she finally pointed it out to me...so now I've eliminated that word from my conversations...(I didn't mean to use that word...bad habit)
I think a genius is one who is a critical thinker...diplomat...their thought process is highly evolved and I believe they realize they don't know everything...but what they do believe...they know.
They question authority...they question what they read...they search for right answers...ever inquisitive...and when they latch on to their passion...then we see the excellence in that particular skill they've embraced...
2006-09-07 02:10:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is very true, Genius is also a different way of seeing things. Look at comedians, they experience the same things we do but they see them differently.
A cure for something may already exist, but the right person hasn't looked at it in a different way yet.
2006-09-07 01:41:49 · answer #6 · answered by starting over 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creative
2006-09-07 01:44:55 · answer #7 · answered by Sam X9 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A genuinely intelligent person , manifesting his use of intellect through his actions.
2006-09-07 01:47:14 · answer #8 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I.Q. > 150
2006-09-07 01:40:22 · answer #9 · answered by C J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋