On Creative Genius
“The most wasted resource on Earth is human talent.”(Anonymous)
Human ability considered as a commodity to mortals, therefore a loss when not applied. Interesting. What kind of a concept constitutes man as responsible to his Universe? What line of thinking would necesitate a mortal to utilize the full breadth of his aptitudes?
And what is this thing called “Genius”?
In ancient Greece, Genius was a divine nature; the rational powers and abilities of each and every human being were attributed to his soul. It was extremely important to Greek/Roman minds to propitiate the appropriate genii for the major undertakings of their lives.
In Greek writings, Genii were good Daemon’s that protected each individual and individual place (in genius loci instances). This indwelling guardian spirit, protected prodigies and enabled them with the inexplicable mystery of divinity.
Today, we attribute genius to ability. I would like to explore the phenomena of creative genius.
People flock to the internet in droves seeking answers, to the plethora of questions, that puzzle and boggle the human mind.
We mere mortals long to entertain our positions as significant Beings, here on our native Earth, while minimizing uncertainty and confusion. We seek information that is easy to digest and gives us meaning and purpose, to our often, minor roles in life.
A genius is often considered inherently brighter than the populations norm. Primarily, a genius is someone who first takes her time to have a good command of the raw basics of her subject.
The Hallmark of a true genius, and thus where she deviates and constructs a trajectory point from the bulk of sentient beings, lies in the willingness to apply hard-work in the area of learning.
Life presents a formidable challenge, in that we are often forced to create ourselves. A persons IQ being high, does not necessitate success. A genius doesn’t reach potential simply because of insufficient motivation or belief in her own powers. There is abundant evidence to support that a biological head start constitutes only a small fraction of what a persons life will be.
A huge proportion of the human population sees a problem where it doesn’t exist. People often allow their expectations and personal desires to cloud their better judgments. Genius has to be willing to suspend her opinions and test her theories. She has to be controlled and not acting on impulsiveness. She has to respect boundaries and recognize the true natures of problems.
A true advanced being must be willing to accept failure as a possibility. Thomas Edison once wrote: “I never failed, I simply found a 1000 ways that didn’t work.”
Also, Albert Einstein believed that: “A person who never made a mistake, never tried. You never fail until you stop trying.”(Of course he also stated that: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” Apparently he was not a big fan of apathy!!).
The “Babe” Ruth was the strike out as well as the home run king… so that having been stated, a true genius must entail a willingness to persist in spite of set- backs.
If we imagine a genius as a high voltage gait, with irregularly fast patterns without spike activity and super fast memory arcs; do we start to see a picture forming?
A human with a willingness to try (and keep trying)… aka deep temporal stimulation and a firm belief that the effort of their toilsome subject is worth burdening over.
A human that is utilizing a fast processing speed and infarcts in memory; opts to tackle a problem quickly, and find an appropriate set of rules to determine a solution. I would suppose that the processing speed is not so critical as the skill in choosing the appropriate rules at hand to solve a problem, but speed helps and I’ll explain to you why.
Imagine you are playing with blocks. You see the various holes and you attempt to place the block in the appropriate hole. The vast majority of society makes an initial effort to place the square block in the round hole. Scientific experimenters will make a secondary effort by trying the square peg in a second hole. Genius can try many, many options of holes very fast to see if any of the available spots match the size and shape of the problematic peg. This is why genius is necessary and how they assist in problem solving in our society.
Atavistic enjoyment of relationships, throwbacks or organisms traits that revert back to ancestral ways several generations back who actually entertained the notions of Love and compassion, may curse the young prodigy.
Longing for Love and mourning rejection and love lost can plague the manifestation of the most fabulous of minds. Feral children can scar young genius.
A prodigy may be interrupted, primarily by an interference engine brain programmed for survival-- thousands of years of evolution demolish our good intentions-- when a brilliant mind is marred by a bitter battle to exist under the poisoning burden of intolerance.
Pay special attention.
Youth is sensitive. Expectations and experiences mold a young mind. Even a person endowed with the best hardware and software $ can buy, can still be vulnerable to being hurt, when such an individual puts herself on the line.
An inborn knowledge is like when we retract our arm because we feel. A procedural knowledge is trial and error via punishment-reward stimuli.
To ensure we understand the implications of the things we learn, older more settled individuals reward good behavior and punish bad (in theory they do this adequately and efficiently and are not defective personalities who attack their offspring and deny their children the luxury and security of predictable and stable behavior and a safe feeling of certainty and her place/role in life).
A young genius will try every hole for her theoretical peg of a problem that has been presented to her. A young prodigy will have a discrepancy provided and will actively seek an answer.
Old genius is settled and is more controlled. Old genius is more capable of defining a problem, recognizing it’s true nature, testing theories and recognizing when a working solution has been found.
Young genius, although far faster at attempts to resolve the issues at hand and far more apt to have spikes of perfection, often is not capable of using what they are doing. Young genius has a heuristic approach to life. The young are looking for an external reward, the old genius are slowly and methodically utilizing the full magnitude of their abilities and their experiences to truly resolve problems.
I see in pictures. I take Kodak moments of the world. I remember and associate differently. I am weird. Why don’t I fit in? Why is there no place for me to belong?
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