Genius
We are indebted to the geniuses of the world, past and present, with their cultivation of imaginative ideas and their extraordinary innovative natures that have helped shape and model the joys and pleasures of the human experience; from Albert Einstein, with his advances in the fields of science and physics, ultimately discovering the theory of relativity, to Leonardo Da Vinci, who demonstrated advances in art, and even innovations in architecture and the sciences. We speak of the word “genius” and associate it with some of the greatest thinkers in human history. But what exactly is a genius, and what are those qualities which make a genius what he is? A genius is not merely someone who is intelligent. It is a more exclusive class of intelligence, the zenith of human potential. The earliest recording of the word comes in the early 14th century, from the Latin gignere (to beget, produce), and genius also was known as “the tutelary god or attendant spirit allotted to every person at his birth, to govern his fortunes and determine his character, and finally to conduct him out of the world” (OED). However, it first referred to the idea of quality of mind and natural ability or capacity in 1649. Synthesizing these two i
deas, it is said that a spirit or entity would influence a person to actualize their given talents and abilities. However, the meaning of the word genius has evolved since then, and the spiritual aspects have been done away with to emphasize the person’s own innate qualities of extraordinary intellectual capability. Thus, to gain a clearer definition of the term, genius can be said to be an exclusive class of intelligence, seemingly the highest form of potential in a person, enabled with a phenomenal sense of understanding and ingenuity in a given field or variety of fields, such as science or the arts, and it is generally positive in connotation. Furthermore, it can be said that genius encompasses three general aspects: curiosity; originality, concordant with creativity, dealing with an ideal towards its actualization; and finally, an impressive ability to think, learn, and understand quickly. A final quality that all geniuses seem to have is an extraordinary ability to think, learn, and understand quickly. To demonstrate this idea, one can think of the average person identifying a problem and trying to decipher it algorithmically, maybe not apt to solve it any other way. A genius, on the other hand, can quickly identify the same problem and solve it heuristically, because a genius has the ability to fully and easily assess the problem, is able to quickly view inherent patterns and missing components, and can therefore take mental shortcuts in reaching a solution (a Point A to Point C without having to deal with Point B ability). A genius has this mental sixth sense, a characteristic that is relatively exclusive from the rest of us. Gary Kasparov, world-renowned chess master, and perhaps the greatest of all time, undoubtedly has this ability. He always has an advantage on his opponent because he has an ability to think ahead of them. He has a knack for hypothetical thinking and can conjointly pursue his tactical scheme against an opponent in a way not even IBM’s D
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