“It’s complicated explaining how genius or expertise is created and why it’s so rare,” says Anders Ericsson, the professor of psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee who edited the handbook. “But it isn’t magic, and it isn’t born. It happens because some critical things line up so that a person of good intelligence can put in the sustained, focused effort it takes to achieve extraordinary mastery. These people don’t necessarily have an especially high IQ, but they almost always have very supportive environments, and they almost always have important mentors. And the one thing they always have is this incredible investment of effort.”
What is genius?
November 14, 2006 by Dewayne Mikkelson
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“I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. Its rarity may be attributed to the crushing influence of a corrupted society. It is rare to meet a youth without high ideals, generous thoughts, a sense of holiness, of his own importance, which, being interpreted, is, of his own identity with God. Three years in the world, and he is a bank clerk or even a government official. Only those who intuitively understand from early boyhood that they must stand out, and who have the incredible courage and endurance to do so in the face of all that tyranny, callousness, and the scorn of inferiors can do; only these arrive at manhood uncontaminated. ”
-Aleister Crowley
When talking about genius, we are talking about intelligence. I don’t think that intelligence can be effectively defined or measured. An I.Q. test doesn’t seem to measure intelligence at all, they measure is data recognition, or pattern recognition.
When we talk about relative intelligence and stupidity, I think that what we’re really talking about is ideological affinity. If someone shares our own views we consider them intelligent. If they are ignorant of our views, and hostile towards them, we call them stupid. When someone share our own views and is more advanced along the same line of thinking, we consider them a genius.
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