What makes a genius ?

The hardware performance of the mind is not an essential characteristic of genius. People with fast minds are about the same as people who run fast, but with better physical strength. I admire people who run fast and have good physical strength.

Nature has endowed them with wealth that no one else has, but that is not called genius. Maybe the speed of that talent is even more rare than genius, but geniuses often don't like to be too fast, because too fast can make people become machines, stop thinking, and go astray. Geniuses like to look at the way forward, so they can often find ways to be lazy.

Genius likes to be lazy, and uses clever design to make everyone lazy. Geniuses tend to rely on their intuition and imagination rather than experience. That's why Albert Einstein said that "imagination is more important than knowledge".

Genius can't remember those frightening terms, but he knows more deeply what they mean. A genius doesn't like to show that he knows a lot, and he is not ashamed to "don't know", because although he may not know something for the time being, he can always figure it out when he needs to, so it doesn't matter if he knows something or not. Maybe this is the so-called "great wisdom and foolishness".

Only those who have the highest spiritual endowments, which we call "geniuses", can enter into a state in which they devote themselves to the creation of art or scientific research, are completely occupied by them, and thus their whole life being is so entangled with these things that they lose interest in anything else. Therefore, it has become an urgent need for this type of person to be undisturbed by the outside world in order to be busy with their thoughts and works.

Solitude is what they can't ask for, and leisure is the supreme gift. Only such people can we say that their center of gravity is in themselves ......They have their own inner being, so they can be comforted even if they lose everything else.

Therefore, there is a lonely quality in them; This trait is especially evident for a long time when others have never really fully satisfied them. In other words, the difference between genius and ordinary people is not entirely IQ, but realm. Although the former is also indispensable, but the average person will use IQ to serve their own desires, and genius will use intelligence for more internal things, and the external manifestation is a masterpiece of art or a scientific conclusion (the latter is probably the result of theoretical physicists' internal quest), the text mentions loneliness many times, and it should also be noted here that it is not that withdrawn people are more likely to be geniuses, but geniuses are prone to loneliness, because mortals are different in their frequency or the realm gap is too large.

The so-called mental illness is actually just different from the frequency of ordinary people, and the things they see are different, and to some extent, geniuses, psychopaths, and superpowers are completely similar in this regard. Although there are no proven examples of the latter (the so-called superpowers), it is a transcendental conclusion. These ideas are also quite relevant to the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos.

In the popular PS4 exclusive game Bloodstream (which is based on the Cthulhu Mythos), if the player's insight is too high (enhanced by a knowledge item called Mad Maniac), they will see things that they can't normally see, such as the messenger on the lever, the dense eyeballs on the monster lantern, and so on. That is, the higher a person's observation power, the more things and details he can feel, and the easier it is to get rid of the situation that will lead ordinary people into boredom, but the price paid is because of oversensitivity and increased sensitivity to pain.

There is a big difference between the genius understood by China and the West. The concept of genius is very general and vague, for example, we subconsciously think that the fifteen-year-old child you describe is the type of genius, the representative of genius. Actually, I would like to give another explanation:

The 15-year-old kid was just lucky to run into it. I have friends with or without mathematics, they are no less sensitive to ** than 15-year-old children are sensitive to academics, and their respective attainments in their respective fields at the same age are not necessarily high or low, but for scholars, my friends only belong to many ordinary learners. That genius of physics may not be a genius in the true sense of the word, but his sensitive ability happens to be scarce, a specialist.

In the eyes of Westerners, genius is not so simple. A high IQ is only a small aspect that defines genius, the rest of the factors are very numerous, and genius is a group. There are a couple of steps that are very, very typical of films that depict geniuses, represented by Mindcatcher.

This film shows a pure-bred genius of Western understanding, extremely sensitive in the fields of natural sciences such as physics and mathematics, and even more sensitive in the field of psychology and art. His genius is not reflected in a single aspect, from academics to human sophistication, he has a different profundity.

Genius, in people's hearts, has always been those who are talented, different from ordinary people, very talented, in some fields can reach the height that ordinary people can't reach, and even reach the peak, for this kind of people, we are all looking up to the attitude, thinking that they are all the pride of the sky, favored by God, we can not reach such a level in our lifetime, but in the book "Deliberate Practice" tells us that even if a ** prodigy like Mozart, we can practice through "deliberate practice".

All industries can be upskilled through practice.

The author of the book once mentioned that he did an experiment, they found an ordinary person for short-term memory training, at first the experimenter could only memorize 9 numbers in a short time, but through two years of deliberate practice, he actually broke through himself, and the memory number reached 82 in a short time! once made him the focus of social attention.

Mozart, known as a prodigy, was able to distinguish the different pitches of the sounds of various musical instruments, and this skill was called "perfect pitch" at the time, and a certain researcher in Japan selected 14 2 6-year-old children for training, and in the end, all 14 children in the experiment could get "perfect pitch".

A few decades ago, the highest marathon record was 2 hours and 55 minutes, which was considered a miracle at the time, but it is surprising that the previous record is not being broken, and even the previous record can now only be used as an entry point for marathon participation.

Deliberate practice is not brainless training.

So since deliberate practice can enhance people's inner potential and constantly break through themselves, can we improve our skills by repeating certain behaviors over and over again? Experiments have proved that when our skills reach a certain level, the body will get used to it, and long-term repetition will not achieve the improvement we think it will be, and may also degenerate, for example, we think that the old driver who has driven a car for 20 years must be more skilled than the driver who has driven for 5 years, in fact, after a long time of repeated actions, the driver who has driven for 20 years may not be as proficient as the driver who has driven for five years.

The focus of attention.

So what is the key point of deliberate practice? In the digital memory experiment, it was found that if the recipient focused on the exercise, it would help to improve his ability in digital memory, which was much stronger than long-term brainless repeated memory, and at the same time, in the test, the experimenter could get timely feedback from the tester, which could help the experimenter know where he was in, understand where he needed to improve, and what he should focus on.

Through this book, we have learned that with deliberate practice, we can improve our professional skills and reach the pinnacle of certain fields in any field.

To become a genius, in addition to having good physical fitness, moral quality, normal intelligence and good education, plus diligence and constant thinking are essential, I have collected aphorisms about genius, although very imperfect, but short aphorisms are the essence, do so, your quality will be improved, I hope it will be beneficial to your path to genius.

1. The vastness of the spirit, the vitality of the imagination, and the diligence of the soul are geniuses.

2. A genius is someone who pays attention to details.

3. Genius is patience.

4. Genius is nothing more than long-term patience, work hard.

5. Genius is the easiest to cultivate in loneliness, and character is easiest to form in a storm.

6. Genius is a strong interest and tenacious obsession.

7. The so-called genius refers to people with perseverance, diligence, fascination and selflessness.

8. What does genius mean? That is bravery, free mind, broad spirit.

9. Genius is to focus all your energy on a specific goal.

10. Genius is nothing but greater endurance.

11. It is not enough to have a strong sense of enterprise, it takes two wings to become a genius: rich common sense and good judgment.

12. Dare to collide with fate is genius.

13. Self-restraint can create a genius, but self-indulgence can destroy ten geniuses. Shout to talk.

14: Truth is encased in infinitesimal details, and it is genius to be able to open the package and find the truth in it. Friends are bored.

15: Love, romance, and sexuality, when organically combined, can elevate a person to the level of genius.

16: Genius is born of hard work.

17: Genius is an endless, painstaking and diligent effort.

18: Only a medicine collector who is not afraid of climbing, and only a tide maker who is not afraid of huge waves can climb the peak to collect the elixir and go deep into the water to see the pearl.

19: The magic weapon of genius is an optimal state of intuition.