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Re:Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf] by elcritch on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:07AM (#16351726)
This list of requisite attributes for genius is fascinating:

> (1) ideational fluency, or the capacity to tap a flow of relevant ideas, themes, or images, and to play with them, also known as “brainstorming”; (2) what Eysenck (1995) has termed the individuals’ relevance horizon; that is, the range or variety of ele­ ments, ideas, and associations that seem relevant to the problem (creativity involves a wide relevance horizon);and (3) suspension of critical judgment.

The third point being particularly difficult to inculcate in oneself while remaining productive (ugh). It’s like maintaining a quantum superposition between rationality and intuitive understanding of a possible solution. I’d argue the majority of people dismiss ideas way to early or because of slight hinderinces. Perhaps it’s a lack of practice of determining the probability of failure of a novel idea/methodology based on knowledge from other areas. Rephrasing the first two points as Bayesian probabilities perhaps could point toward how one could increase the odds of finding useful outcomes when "suspending" critical thinking.

Re:Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf] by scoot on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:27AM (#16352250)
”one could increase the odds of finding useful outcomes when "suspending" critical thinking”

AKA The Balmer peak? http://observer.com/2012/04/bottoms-up-the-ballmer-peak-is-r...

Re:Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf] by elcritch on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:17AM (#16357085)
Ha! Pretty clever, and it does hit upon a point I was trying to make that achieving the perfect balance of suspending critical thinking is hard! Too much or too little by a hair’s breadth and you end up with Windows ME.