Genius.....how much of it is innate, and how much can be acquired by way of monomaniacal dedication?Hacker news wrote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896721
Do you think that you are a genius, or do you think you know any?
Discuss.
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Genius.....how much of it is innate, and how much can be acquired by way of monomaniacal dedication?Hacker news wrote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896721
On another note, since I am not a genius by any stretch of the imagination, I might simply be too stupid to understand Langan's musings.
Surprise buttsecks?StarPhoenix wrote:pull a jamin
This is so true.KALSTER wrote: The fact that we are nearly all pretty average over all is something too many depressed people fail to see.
Perhaps the wisest thing one can do is to recognise just how little you really know and understand.
Not your intelligence necessarily, just what you know and understand. You can simultaneously know that you know and understand little (relative to what is knowable) and still realise that you are probably not generally below average.CapNemo wrote:You won't get anything done if you keep on questioning your intelegence
No, I meant that the dude with the IQ of 200 who is promoting I.D. might be setting things up for an epic troll.Hman wrote:Surprise buttsecks?StarPhoenix wrote:pull a jamin
Just because people are more knowledgeable or gifted than you does NOT make them geniuses.Tribble wrote:I have many friends who I would (and IQ scores agree) put into the genius category.
Genius (plural geniuses[1][2]) is something or someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of unprecedented insight.
I dunno - I give up. This hurts my underdeveloped brain.Origin of the word
Main article: Genius (mythology).
In ancient Rome, the genius (plural genii) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family (gens), or place (genius loci).[4] The noun is related to the Latin verb gigno, genui, genitus, "to bring into being, create, produce." Because the achievements of exceptional individuals seemed to indicate the presence of a particularly powerful genius, by the time of Augustus the word began to acquire its secondary meaning of "inspiration, talent."[5]