What really is a “genius”? Is it someone who has excelled early on in his life? Is it someone who is so immersed in a subject that he/she becomes a genius with that one subject (Einstein, Feynman, Newton)?
I know people used it commonly as just a term for hard-working/intelligent people…but who are they and where are they?
<p>It's all based on your own interpretation, or you can just look it up in the dictionary...</p>
<p>IQ (determined from a test given by someone qualified to do so) of 140 or higher.</p>
<p>To be a genius you have to get certified. Once certified you should recieve a certificate in the mail which may take up to 6-8 weeks.</p>
<p>Well...you can study for IQ tests and do well on them....they just test some skills that easily be trained...like the SAT</p>
<p>I don't believe its IQ. I believe its Creativity.</p>
<p>Its not creativity. Its sex appeal.</p>
<p>it's actually passion and accomplishments</p>
<p>How awesome would it be to say "I'm a certified genius...in sex appeal." That would pick up all the ladies or fellas at the bars.</p>
<p>i think it's just accomplishing, disovering, or inventing something no one else has figured out or thought of...that actually makes a difference and is benificial.</p>
<p>so basically its being creative in an uncomparable way.</p>
<p>but then again i'm not a genius and i doubt any of you are, so what do we know?</p>
<p>Analysis, Memory, Imagination.</p>
<p>i go with the person above me ^</p>
<p>"IQ (determined from a test given by someone qualified to do so) of 140 or higher."</p>
<p>that definition doesnt seem tight. My friends and i have above 155 IQ but we are not geniuses.</p>
<p>the very fact that in this world the number of ppl with above 140 IQs are not few violates the elite status of "genius"</p>
<p>"To be a genius you have to get certified. Once certified you should recieve a certificate in the mail which may take up to 6-8 weeks."</p>
<p>LOL... six to eight weeks.</p>
<p>I don't think a piece of paper or any certification suggests at all that one is a genius. The definition the word genius is subjective.</p>
<p>this was written about the physicist Richard Feynman:
There are two kinds of geniuses, the "ordinary" and the "magicians". An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they have done, we feel certain that we too could have done it. It is different with the magicians.... The working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark.</p>
<p>a genius is someone remarkable. someone extraordinary. He does not have to be super smart. He does not have to accomplish a great deal when he was young. He just has to have the spark of intellect.</p>
<p>I don't really like these tests that are administered. I mean, even if you get a high score, what does that say? I just don't think that one score can determine much. After all, aren't there 7 types of intelligence?</p>
<p>When I think of genius, I think of the ability to take something complex and make it simple. I don't think about a score on some "IQ test." That's just me though.</p>
<p>common sense?</p>
<p>I think alot of it has to do not with what you know and can repeat back...The basic style of "learning" at all schools.</p>
<p>But the ability to think...</p>
<p>On a true literal level...very few people can think and analyze regardless of simplicity. Most just spew off what they already know or were told and expect there opinion unquestioned.</p>
<p>I have been trying to develop a formula for it but have found that it only works with real numbers. But what are you going to do?</p>
<p>Genious = Ability to Think + Eccentricity/Creativity ; Creativity cannot = 0</p>
<p>I think it's impossible to define a genius. Are geniuses born or are they made? I think in order to be a genius you have to be naturally super super super smart or excel in something at a really young age.</p>
<p>"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence - nor imagination - nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." -- Mozart</p>