what makes a Genius ?
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- mitsu0
a few presedential iq's:
147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
174 John F. Kennedy (D)
126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
121 Gerald Ford (R)
175 James E. Carter (D)
105 Ronald Reagan (R)
099 George HW Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
091 George W. Bush (R)
- DonnieTV0
I apologised to Seph earlier in this thread, but I wish I hadn't.
He's been sending me emails calling me an arse, slagging off Glasgow (where I come from), etc.
He should really have the balls to do it here, but he probably wants to keep up a persona.
Anyway - I thought I'd let you know what he's really like.
- unknown0
hahaha, post the emails!
- DonnieTV0
too horrible.
they nearly made me cry.
- unknown0
ahhh cmon
- DonnieTV0
I couldn't tfsmag. He actually says:
"Have you got many friends?"
I think you'll now realise why I couldn't post the rest - I don't want to get banned.
- DonnieTV0
I was actually going to say that Limmy is the only genius I have ever known - but he beat me to it.
- unknown0
ahhh the gratuitous slaughter of the english language may be too much for the rest of the geniuses?
- Mal0
REQUIEM.
- carver0
limmy dotcom sure is genius..GENIUS at throwing half eaten pies and müller lite yoghurt from his office window at innocent passers by..in fact my buddy, iain gillanders says he's been hit by something approaching müller lite yoghurt thrice now, THRICE!! Now there's a word THRICE!!!
- Limmy0
Carver, if you mention muller yoghurt, pies and throwing stuff out the window one more time, I'm going to go bonkers.
REQUIEM! REQUIEM, EVERYBODY, REQUIEM!!!
- Gorbie0
Excessive quotations and borrowed one liners. Irreverent nonsensical remarks and college.
For sure.
- carver0
go bonkers..yehaaa,i love them folk that can go bonkers at the drop of a pie, ah mean hat!!
- sparker0
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.
- sparker0
That's what I think anyway...
- enobrev0
sparker.. well said
and donnie.. not that i completely disagree, but putting time into something is harder than it seems.
- sparker0
allow me to paraphrase and restate your point, enobrev...
"putting QUALITY time into something is harder than it seems..."
:)
anyone can dedicate a block of time to focus on something, but it's what you do in that block of time that matters.
today for example, my day is dedicated to finishing two perl modules, i am doing that, but i'm not putting forth my best effort on it....because i don't have to. if they were system critical modules, i would focus more energy into getting them finished. and finished correctly.
it is the same with everything. you can focus on something but if you don't put effort into the quality, then it doesn't matter if you focused time into it or not.
:)
- DonnieTV0
And if you did manage to put your best into it would that make you a genius?
Would your best effort be genius?
- mitsu0
mah spoon is too big.