Genius is a rather sloppy word because geniuses of the past like Einstein or Mozart may not have been genius in present because what is done historically in the areas in which they have worked might or might not have permitted them to achieve the level of prominence they did achieve because what they were doing at that time was needed.
If you have to ask somebody,’ Do you think he is a genius?’ and the other person has to ponder, the answer would be no. You can get very close to what people view as genius by reaching very high level of production.
William Shakespeare, who creates a lire out of his mind, so this person could not exist without William being creating him. But Albert Einstein in a way was simply the first to discover something that is always there. It suggests that artistic genius is one level above others because if you take Einstein out, you still have the universe the way it is, just to wait for someone to have notice what he did. But if you take artistic genius out of the system, you do not get their product.
Geniuses are born and then made. They have some brain capabilities when they are born that if used well, early, frequently flips them into the genius category.Einstein’s brain had more of Astrocytes then any other brain people had seen. One Astrocyte can fire up to 300,000 neurons and they come within our brain when you are born.
But if you go off the planet Earth and you ask an alien from outer space,’Is this artistic person a genius?’, His reply would be ‘What is art?’. They are gonna have a completely different conception of art. But if ask him the work of Albert Einstein he would say, ‘Everybody in the universe knows the laws of Albert Einstein’.
In between 440 BC and 380 BC in one short season we had Plato, Socrates, Pericles, Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Euripides and then nothing. In Florence, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, Donatello.In Los Angeles in 1930’s many Europeans immigrated to Hollywood so there was a flood of writers and cinematographers.
Whenever there is a boom in economy and in civilization, like in ancient Greece and 15th century Florence, it attracts people with variable and high intellect, to discuss their work ever increasing the prosperity of that place.
There is a theory that says that if there is damage in the left temporal lobe of the brain, the right compensate for it’s working and since the right temporal brain is more artistic so the person sometimes become artistic genius.
Parents should never tell their child that he/she is smart. They get a fixed mindset. There is an inverse co-relation between being told you are smart and how long you continue to do things when it is not easy for you to do them. Children then stop putting production. Giving a straight answer is convergence of thinking. The school teaches you to think in a single right way and inhibit you to be creative.
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