what makes a Genius ?
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Poe once said, "There is a fine line between insanity and genius."
I think genius relies more on the ability to think both pragmatically and abstractly about a given situation.
To much social importance is placed on the word genius. It is a weighted word. People think 'genius' has to do with learning, grades, wit, intelligence...and sure, to some extent it does...but genius is more about understanding and rationalizing a given problem. The ability to understand the most complex, abstract entity and devise a pragmatic, banal conclusion.
Simply taking the incomprehensible and making comprehensible.
Example: Physics - I don't understand physics in it's purest form, but I can read a book written by a physicist and see how teleportation of quarks works...or how gravity works...etc.
One must also consider the autistic when talking about genius. Autistic people are usually exceptionally brilliant and focused at one thing (art, writing, math, etc) and completely flatlined at everything else. One can't then logically say that intelligence is important to genius if someone who appears useless is actually exceptional.
Genius is the ability to see life as a whole, and in both micro and macro scales and devise solutions to it's events and problems.