What defines a genius or a savant?

Question

i;m fascinated the capabilities of the human mind...how it works and our abilities to process information...so what is intelligence anyway? How do you get three year old kids to play musical instruments and have them learn it perfectly...or the fact that there are kids in asia who can do a tremendous amount of work?...Also there are average people out there that are good in one area such as literature and when they get to math they are extaordinary.How does someone get to be that way?

anyone who answers thanks for yor input.

Answer 1

In my opinion a true genius is someone who comes up with something that changes the course of human history.

Copernicus/Galileo, Newton, Einstein

Answer 2

Genius vs. savant -- being a genius refers largely to your I.Q. points. The exact number excapes me, but I believe that having an I.Q. over 140 makes you a genius. A savant is somebody, regardless of their I.Q., that is exceptionally good at one and just one thing. But you mention those people who are good at most subjects but great at math. I don't think that is a savant, since all the talent isn't directed to one area. I know somebody who is O.K. at most classes, but absolutely amazing at math. He is probably a genius, although I can't say I know his I.Q..

As for the kids in Asia, I am pretty sure it has to do with the attitude of their culture towards education. It isn't a brain thing so much as a culture thing.

Nobody is really sure yet how anybody ends up as either a genius or a savant, or anybody with unusualy mental capabilities. The human brain is a very mysterious place, and nobody is completely sure  how it works. It's hard to say exactly what is different for a savant without understanding how the brain works. But I have my hopes up that science will be able to figure out more soon.

Answer 3

Genius is too complex to list all contributing factors. Some of these are genetic, some are related to the personality, some are unknown yet, and some come from the environment and training. Naturally we have little impact on the genetic component. It is also very difficult to shape the personality. However, a conducive environment and years training can lift a seemingly average person to amazing levels of skill or expertise.Although some prodigies grow up to become creative masters as adults, there is no necessary link between early signs of talent and ultimate achievement.A child or adolescent who, when compared to others of the same age or experience, exhibits capability of high performance in intellectual, creative, or artistic areas, possesses an unusual capacity for leadership or excels in specific academic fields and the ability to construct new ideas or images.

on the contrary,a savant ,is a learned person, well versed in literature or science as well as the fine arts, often with an exceptional skill in a specialized field of learning,with emphasis on knowledge gained from books. there is also

a condition called Savant Syndrome and id defined as

a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disorders, including autistic disorder, have astonishing islands of ability, brilliance or talent that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to overall limitations

Answer 4

THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS NOT SIMPLE AND CAN'T BE OBJECTIVE. BUT AS PER MY EXPERIENCE, A  GENIUS IS DIFFERENT THAN GENERAL PUBLIC IN HIS APPROACH TO LIFE IN ALL RESPECTS. HE SEES ALL THE PROBLEMS WITH A POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND SOLVE IN THE WAY THAT FEW PEOPLE CAN IMAGINE. HE SEES THE PROBLEMS AS WAY OF PROGRESS AND INNOVATIONS BUT NOT AS HINDRANCE OR SOMETHING OUT OF THIS WORLD.

THE PARAMETERS WHICH DEFINE IQ CAN NOT ONLY TELL IF A PERSON IS GENIUS OR NOT. GENIUS HAS TOTAL DIFFERENT KINDS OF APPROACH TOWARDS LIFE AND THEIR WAY OF THINKING IS JUST OPPOSITE TO OTHERS WHICH IS MOSTLY CONSTRUCTIVE THAN DESTRUCTIVE.

GENIUS APPROACHES LIFE WITH FRESH THOUGHTS AND ZEAL AND LEARN FROM EACH AND EVERYTHING IN LIFE WHETHER IT IS LIVING OR DEAD.

GENIUS ARE CURIOUS BY NATURE AND KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS TO OTHERS AND THEMSELVES.

GENIUS APPROACHES LIFE WIT FRESH IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS WHICH IS RARELY SEEN NOW A DAYS IN THIS WORLD.

MATERIALISTIC WORLD DOES NOT INTEREST THEM.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, GENIUSES HAVE HEART AND MIND OF A CHILD WHICH MEANS THEY ARE WILLING TO LEARN AT ALL TIMES AND TRY TO FIND ANSWERS. THEY NEVER GET TIRED OUT OF FAILURES AND NEVER THINK OF FUTURE. AS GENIUS ALBERT EINSTEIN SAID

"I NEVER THINK OF FUTURE BECAUSE IT COMES SOON ENOUGH"

Answer 5

True genius is the ability to entertain simultaneous opposite thoughts! Such as two falling objects which are stationary relative to each other yet they are both moving! If you can grasp multiple concepts simultaneously that would have to be true genius!

Answer 6

The first link is an article that explains how a person becomes a savant.  It suggests that all of us may have the potential to have some savant-like genius, but having a disability actually allows these individuals to excell in areas suchs as mathematics, music, etc.  

On a program that I watched this past year on Discovery Health, the man who was in the inspiration for the movie 'Rainman' was featured.. and they discovered through extensive research that even though this man was capable of memorizing an retaining millions of facts/dates, he was not able to distinguish sarcasm and humor from serious information.  It  was a remarkably interesting documentary.

Also, the second link is a very interesting article about genius and savantism.

Answer 7

well, generally speaking a genius is defined as someone having an IQ higher than 130.  A savant is someone who has an unusual talent in one area (music, memory, math, etc.) while usually being highly impaired in other life skills.

you can teach a 3 year old to play most instruments, but there is no way to guarantee they will be perfect at it. children in Asia and other cultures do a tremendous amount of work because it is what is expected of them and it is how they were raised.

People don't follow certain steps to be talented in one area or another, they just have a gift and they work hard.

Answer 8

I think there are different levels of genius and that many of these are savants or eccentric because they are lost in thought like sleep walkers.One other example is people driving while on their cell phones; Like a deviating personality. The same goes with kids and video games lost in a unrealistic world. And so on. Does it seem we have lost our individuality and common sense for an addiction to an extensional device? Reminds me of the "Borg." Resistance is futile? Funny what suckers we are for any technology. I don't think savants are damaged or a fluke of nature. They are just more noticeable sometimes when they are unexpected.

Answer 9

Genius is the ability to do when others cannot.  As Richard Feynman put it,

1) Look at problem.

2) Think real hard.

3) Write down answer.

A savant does (1) + (3). Savants are generally not well equipped to pursue most of the things in life and society.  The Severely and Profoundly Gifted must be nurtured and sheltered for only they can see a better future (and we want them to share).

Answer 10

kids in asia can do tremendous amount of work because they have no choice, they must work to survive. a genius is someone who has xtraordinary mental abilities. he can be trained by training or by long exposure to something. a savant is definitely some1 wit BUILD IN mental SKILL but not necessarily in data processing aspect such as photographic memory

Answer 11

The Prophetic Savant

by Chip Brogden

sa-vant' (n.): 1. a mentally defective person who exhibits exceptional skill or brilliance in some limited field; 2. a person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else.

"...the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad..." (Hosea 9:7).

"What then is genius? Could it be that a genius is a man haunted by the speaking Voice [of God], laboring and striving like one possessed to achieve ends which he only vaguely understands?"

A. W. Tozer

(*The use of the male pronoun in this writing is for convenience only. We mean no partiality to our brothers, and no disrespect to our sisters.)

The prophetic savant is a person afflicted with a heavenly autism, making him nearly incapable of normal relations with those around him. Accused of being aloof, cold, and distant, he is apt to hide himself from people, withdrawing into a world of his own. He never seems to be all "there". Even if he forces himself to come down to Earth for a moment, those around him may have the sense that there is an unspoken dialogue going on somewhere inside of him, a secret communion carried on beneath the surface that never allows him to be fully "in the moment".

How do we explain this? As a prophetic savant he sees, hears, and relates to the world differently than the rest of the population. They have not seen what he has seen; they have not heard what he has heard. And so he finds very little camaraderie, very little sympathy or understanding, no one with whom he can open his heart and share his soul, because he no longer speaks the same language, and they no longer speak his. Of course, he may have surface-level exchanges with anyone: he is approachable, not haughty, or high-minded. He may even be personable and likeable. Yet there is something so other-worldly in his demeanor that he is more often frightening than friendly, in spite of his best efforts. He is a spiritual autistic, and no matter how hard you try to know him, he is generally unknowable, and to a certain degree, he resists all attempts to know him.

If a prophet is anything, he is extra-terrestrial - above the Earth. He walks the Earth with others, but he is not of the Earth. He is from beyond; he is from above. If we trace his history we will find that he may or may not have had a normal childhood. He may or may not have come through extraordinary experiences. But at some point in his life, either as a child, or as a young adult, or as an old man, something from another realm broke through the thin membrane between Heaven and Earth and took hold of him. It may have been a burning bush, or a Voice crying out to him from beyond the veil, or a Heavenly Vision which brought him briefly into contact with something and Someone that he could not completely fathom.

However it happened, for one moment at least, the clouds parted and the veil was rent, and he saw something that is unseeable; he heard something that is unhearable; Heaven itself was opened up to him, and he saw into another world. The thing he saw and heard now burdens him like a mantle that has been draped over his shoulders. He feels its weight, for it is with him day and night, whether he is eating or drinking, working or resting. It is the impression that everything around him is a lie, and what he has seen and heard is the Truth, and this Truth is not static, but it is living, growing, and increasing within him from the day it comes to him in the form of a seed.

For a long time he struggles to find words and vocabulary to express the inexpressible. He cannot explain why he feels the need to try and express it, but for some inexplicable reason something drives him to open his mouth, or take up his pen, and make it known. Whatever it is, it will not permit him to savor it or keep it to himself, and it seems intent on coming to the surface and interrupting the normal course of his life. This process can be frustrating and painful, so much so that he may give up several times, content to simply walk in what he has seen and heard and leave it at that.

But try as he might, he cannot run away from what he has seen and heard, and he cannot deny the compulsion to bring it forth. On the one hand he cries out for a "normal" life, while on the other hand he knows he cannot deny what has been revealed to him. When he does achieve some modest success in articulating something of Heaven he is pleased for a time, but soon grows impatient with it, and eventually is dissatisfied with it altogether, because it cannot do justice to what he has seen and heard. And so the process begins again, the continual search for words to more perfectly express what he is trying to communicate (and a subtle fear in the back of his mind that he may never be able to adequately express it), which leads him to invent words which may have never before existed, or to look for Spirit-inspired words in some unknown tongue that can be translated into something others can understand.

The prophets of old correctly called it the "burden of the Lord", for it is like a woman who must live the rest of her life being in perpetual labor, delivering the same child over and over again. What relief there is only comes in discharging the burden, but that is not to say it ever really leaves: it merely allows the prophet time to catch his breath until the next contraction doubles him over again. The burden is with him the rest of his life, and he never fully discharges it.

Even when he tries to be disobedient to the Heavenly Vision and flees from the presence of the Lord he is pursued and hunted down like some kind of a wild animal who has gotten loose, knowing it is only a matter of time before he is captured again. The Voice never leaves him, the Vision never lets him go. When he refuses to speak then the fire which is already kindled only burns hotter, until he ends up doing what he has resisted doing all along, just to relieve himself of the unbearable tension and inward pressure. He cannot extinguish or quench the fire no matter what he does, he can only be obedient and find temporary relief, until the next word comes, and then off he goes. He may beg God to send someone else, and may protest his inability to speak, or to write. But he is already ruined for anything else, and even when he denies the Lord Who called him and returns to his former occupation, it is all dull and lifeless, and he meets with nothing but frustration and failure. There is no way to escape it. He knows he is called to something Higher, even when he is clinging with everything he has to something Lower.

Like a wild horse, he resists the dealings of the Lord and must be broken before he will obey. Eventually he learns not to resist the Lord, but to cooperate with Him. He becomes pliable and bendable in order to survive. His very life now is bound up with what he has seen and heard. He cannot be disobedient to the Heavenly Vision, and if it means he dies, then he dies. If it means a renunciation of everything he once believed, then he renounces it - reluctantly at first, then cheerfully. If it means suffering the loss of all things, then he lets them go.

Over time the one who has seen and heard becomes the very essence of what he has seen and heard. The Man becomes the Message. He bears the Testimony in himself, and becomes one with it. He needs no preparation to speak; indeed, preparation does nothing to help the message he brings, and it often gets in the way. His whole life is the preparation, and since he is the Message, it is with him constantly. He can no more separate himself from the Message than he can separate his head from his body. If there is an "On/Off" switch then it was long ago turned on and then disabled so that it can never be turned off again. After many seasons of God's dealings he finally perceives that this is what the Lord has sought for all along, not just to GIVE him a Message, but to MAKE him a Message; to gain for Himself a Messenger and capture him completely, embossing the Message into his very being.

And so he goes about his daily business, constantly haunted by that Voice, torn between the menial task at hand which calls for his physical and mental exertion, and the Higher Calling which seeks his undivided attention. He knows he should do all things, great and small, as "unto the Lord". But he also knows that Heaven and Earth are locked in mortal combat over him while he stands there in the middle, torn between the two, desiring to depart the Earth altogether and be with Christ, but knowing that it is more profitable for his brethren if he remains. Heaven calls him to rise up, but Earth tells him to keep his feet firmly planted. His heart is constantly breaking and longing to go, to ascend, to rise up, to stop seeing through a dark glass, and see face to face, without the distraction of the natural, the fleshly, the temporal, because he knows the Earth is not his home. Yet he struggles with the fact that Earth is where he must live and work. This accounts for why he may sometimes seem difficult to be around.

As a savant he possesses insight and skill which others do not possess. But it is a gift, not anything of himself, nothing of which he could boast of. If you were to ask him if he considers this to be a blessing, he would probably say it is more like a curse, because it sets him apart from others even when he tries his best to be hidden and to blend in. He cannot read the Scriptures as others do, for after only a few verses the Heavens are opened up to him again and he is lost in its depths. A single passage may keep him occupied for months as Heaven unfolds it to him, and he cannot tear himself away from it.

His preaching is affected, because he cannot decide in advance what he will say, and even when he would like to bring forth something new and exciting, he usually ends up saying the same thing, like, "Repent!" He often does not say what he wants to say, and does not say it in the way he would like to say it. If he wants to be serious, he finds himself laughing. And when he wishes to be friendly, he finds himself screaming at the top of his voice to a startled congregation of people, who wonder how this fellow was ever allowed access to their inner sanctum in the first place. When he leaves a place he almost never sees the result of his labor, and only eternity can reveal the true significance of what was said. For now, it is all hidden, and he has to live with the fact that his fruitfulness will never be measured in terms that human beings, including himself, can see and appreciate.

He cannot go through the motions of religion like most mortals. It is a dead, shallow thing to him because it cannot compare to the reality of what he has already experienced. He finds it difficult to listen to another person preach when he knows they have not yet ascended to the heights nor plumbed the depths that he has already navigated. And when he tries to lead them into these heights and depths himself he is often misunderstood or rejected altogether. So either he attends the meeting and suffers in silence, or stays home and suffers in solitude; but either way, he suffers.

His seeing is affected by a sort of "spiritual dyslexia". While others view things from a one or two dimensional viewpoint, he sees them through several dimensions at once - forward, backward, reverse, upside-down, right-side up: life and death, light and dark, Spirit and flesh, Heavenly and Earthly - which often puts him at odds with his more pragmatic and doctrinally-correct brethren. He is so at one with what he has seen that he speaks of it as having already happened, because he has, in essence, already experienced it and lived it. It is the Prophetic Tense, which calls those things that be not as though they were. In his world, the world of the Spirit, they exist already. We call it "prediction" because we cannot yet see it with our natural eyes, but he simply stands outside of Time and views Past and Future as one unbroken and continuous Present.

His hearing is affected so that he is increasingly sensitive to his surroundings, even though it seems as if he is not paying attention. He is listening, but he is listening inwardly. He no longer trusts his natural ears, because the Heavenly Voice and the inner witness are more reliable. Thus, he is able to hear God speaking, while the rest of the crowd says, "It thundered!" or "It was an angel!" He is also able to hear when God is not speaking, and does not get carried away with the multitudes who claim to speak, see, and hear things from God when they have not heard or seen anything from Heaven. He cannot bear to listen to them.

His concentration is affected in such a way as to make him appear obstinate and unyielding to others. The truth is that he is actually quite flexible and pliable before the Lord, but before man he is as solid and impenetrable as a rock. No amount of persuasion or argument from man will move him - but the slightest touch from the Lord will bring him to his knees. Having discovered the One Thing that is needed, he will tenaciously and ruthlessly shun the "many things" which crowd in to seek his attention, for he sees everything else as a distraction. Indeed, he is quite willing to sacrifice the good in favor of the holy. And when the Lord has him focused on a particular thing he is as a beam of light fastened upon a singular point until everything melts before it.

Even his praying is affected, for he can no longer pray as he wills and for what he wants. He seemingly has no will of his own. Instead the Heavenly Voice bids him to pray with a Heavenly perspective, and all too often the Heavenly perspective is at odds with the Earthly perspective. So when his brothers and sisters pray for blessing and increase, he finds himself praying for destruction and decrease; and when they are resisting and praying against something, he finds himself asking God to perform the very thing the rest of the world is against.

To the rest of the world, the autistic savant is a bit of a retarded genius, an unfortunate mixture of idiocy and brilliance, caught up in a world of its own. The prophetic savant bears a similar stigma. But if you engage him at all, you soon discover that he sees all of this as absolutely normal; the way it is supposed to be. He no longer wishes for a normal life, because the life he has now IS normal: he has lost his own life in exchange for a new life. He lives in the Heavenlies while he walks on the Earth. He does not think of himself as special, as anything other than a regular person, but often wonders aloud why others cannot see what he has seen when it is all so self-evident and plain. To him, maybe; but the rest of us are blinded by the Light he exudes without knowing it.

Pareidolia

http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html



Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct. For example, in the discolorations of a burnt tortilla one sees the face of Jesus Christ. Or one sees the image of Mother Teresa or Ronald Reagan in a cinnamon bun or a man in the moon.

Under ordinary circumstances, pareidolia provides a psychological explanation for many delusions based upon sense perception. For example, it explains many UFO sightings, as well as the hearing of sinister messages on records played backwards. Pareidolia explains Elvis, Bigfoot, and Loch Ness Monster sightings. It explains numerous religious apparitions and visions. And it explains why some people see a face or a building in a photograph of the Cydonia region of Mars.

Under clinical circumstances, some psychologists encourage pareidolia as a means to understanding a patient. The most infamous example of this type of clinical procedure is the Rorschach inkblot test.

Astronomer Carl Sagan claimed that the human tendency to see faces in tortillas, clouds, cinnamon buns, etc. is an evolutionary trait. He writes:  

As soon as the infant can see, it recognizes faces, and we now know that this skill is hardwired in our brains. Those infants who a million years ago were unable to recognize a face smiled back less, were less likely to win the hearts of their parents, and less likely to prosper. These days, nearly every infant is quick to identify a human face, and to respond with a goony grin (Sagan 1995: 45).

I think Sagan is right about the tendency to recognize faces, but I don't see any reason to think there is an evolutionary advantage in seeing replicas of paintings, ghosts, demons, and the like, in inanimate objects. There is, of course, an evolutionary advantage in seeing images of dinner or predators against a varied environmental background. There would be no advantage for, say, a hawk to be dive-bombing shadows on rocks, however. It seems likely that the modern mind is making associations with shapes, lines, shadows, and the like that are connected to current desires, interests, hopes, obsessions, and the like. Most people recognize illusions for what they are, but some become fixated on the reality of their perception and turn an illusion into a delusion. A little bit of critical thinking, however, should convince most reasonable people that a cinnamon bun that looks like mother Teresa or a burnt area on a tortilla that looks like Jesus are accidents and without significance. It is more likely that the Virgin Mary one sees in the reflection of a mirror or on the floor of an apartment complex or in the clouds has been generated from one's own imagination than that a person who has been dead for 2,000 years should manifest herself in such a mundane and useless fashion.

See related entries on apophenia, the face on Mars, Our Lady of Watsonville, Rorschach Ink Blot Test, subliminal, and the unconscious.

Geniuses

Geniuses shape the world. The evil geniuses of movies are always plotting and scheming to control the world! But it is the real geniuses who invent things and expand our understanding, knowledge and abundance, who really shape the world we live in. Not content to live a mediocre life, these geniuses plunge into their chosen work and their brilliance, creativity and innovation leaves an indelible mark on the world. You too are a genius, and like all the geniuses before you, you can learn to access your inner genius by letting other real geniuses be your mentors and guides.

Geniuses help you become a genius. Not all geniuses are altruistically minded, but all geniuses leave us with a much greater understanding of intelligence and how to think like they did. Geniuses like Thomas Alva Edison and Leonardo Da Vinci, left vast and copious notes, journals and writings which reveal the secrets of their genius. You can study these geniuses, do as they do or did, and become the genius that you were born to be. You can even learn the secret thinking skills of fictional geniuses like Sherlock Holmes, or the communication strategies of great writers like William Shakespeare.

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals

because what they must do

is the same as

what they most want to do."  

~ W.H.Auden

Geniuses are pivotal figures in your consciousness. Famous geniuses become like guiding stars in the firmament of your mind. People like Albert Einstein and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart come to represent and define genius in your mind. As we learn easiest by imitation and demonstration, these famous geniuses unwittingly form the foundation and basis of your understanding of genius. When I ask you to become the genius that you are, you automatically draw on those archetypal geniuses to begin to formulate your own way of thinking like a genius.

Read about some of the smartest people that have ever lived, those we commonly call geniuses. Draw upon the collective power of the geniuses that have lived, loved and contributed so greatly to our planet, leaving us the legacy of a lifetime of unrivalled creative genius thinking. You'll find links to the secret world of geniuses included below here.

Secrets of Ten Great Geniuses:

Uncover the secrets of the greatest geniuses of all time!  

http://www.wilywalnut.com/genius/geniuse...

If you find any other websites related to geniuses, please feel free to contact us and tell us about them! If you want to get the full lowdown on geniuses' secrets of creativity, innovation and super brainpower why don't you check out my creative genius articles? They give you the edge!

Geniuses - discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest geniuses!

Genius -  real live genius, find the genius to bring out your genius!

Genius IQ -  certified genius level IQ, what's your IQ for genius thinking!

Baby Genius - the best resouces for your baby or child genius in the making!

Geniuses, the world's real geniuses - Top

Great Thinkers & Visionaries  - This is a superb site that I keep revisiting to dip in and discover yet another genius that I knew nothing about bit has the capacity to blow my mind in some way. Packed with links to pages all about living and historical geniuses in all fields of endeavour especially the sciences and philosophy. Go Now!

The Halcyon List of Geniuses & Thinkers - An awesome nexus point for the hottest geniuses in all disciplines. Great place to start for a regular mind-stretching trip round the galaxy. Packed to the gills with links to the extraordinary, the bizarre, the outrageous and everything groundbreaking. Go Now!

Geniuses and Scientists - HAHAHA! This site is hilarious. How would you like Einstein's spirit to come and work with you? Come and have a written psychic interview with the great genius to see if you qualify as a host for his spirit! If you're accepted and can afford the $25,000,000 fee charged by famous psychic Prince Leopold, you'll be merging souls with one of history's greatest geniuses! Don't worry though, there are geniuses and famous spirits to suit all budgets!  Go now!

301 Geniuses - Estimated IQ's of 301 Eminent Geniuses Born from 1450 to 1850 from

Catherine M. Cox's The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses.Go Now!

IT Geniuses - ITGeniuses.com is headhunting for IT geniuses. They can train you to be an IT genius or plump your resume to get the best IT jobs going! Go Now!

24 Characteristics of All Geniuses - "Most people have the mistaken idea that geniuses are born, not made", says clinical psychologist Dr. Alfred Barrious, founder and director of the Self-Programmed Control Center of Los Angeles. He claims the worlds greatest geniuses have all had 24 personality characteristics in common and that you can develop the same traits yourself. Go Now!

Estimated IQs of the Greatest Geniuses - Find out which historical genius is considered to have the greatest IQ - some surprises I think. Lists geniuses with highest IQs and links to pages all about them. Go Now!

Mad Geniuses - The mad genius research lab is dedicated to the possibility that the next unrecognized genius like Einstein, Tesla, Rife, or Ramanujan might be lurking out on the net somewhere, completely unsupported and unappreciated. The site features various links and papers tracking what the author considers will be key areas of scientific, technological, and social advancement in the near future.  Go Now!

World Geniuses - A page that attempts to list the world's greatest geniuses but seems unclear as to whether genius is neccessary for great achievements. Nevertheless, a list of world contributors who are ascribed to be geniuses. Go Now!

What if Plato Were My Mentor:

The Greatest Success Secrets of All Time from Aristotle to Zeno!  

Top 10 Geniuses of All Time According to Buzan's Book Of Genius:

Leonardo da Vinci - the genius of geniuses!

William Shakespeare - the greatest playwright of all time!

Great Pyramid Builders - Egypt's geniuses of architecture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - genius who used over 50,000 different words in his writings.

Michelangelo - the genius who carved a David from a block of stone!

Sir Isaac Newton - something about gravity - far too serious!

Thomas Jefferson - one of the genius architects of the USA.

Alexander the Great

Phidias

Albert Einstein - generally first to come to mind when you think of geniuses!

Answer 12

well a savant is a genius in there own way. usually one way. Iq tests dont cover the whole spectrum of talents ether. you can take a online iq test and get a score of 65 then take another one and get 130 , or look at a mensa test they focus on rrr's and thats it . YOu can be a brilliant inventor and not get into mensa.