Re:Exploring the nature of genius
by agumonkey on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:59AM
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Genius is relative. For most of the world any dev is a genius. For devs, john carmack is a genius. For EE Shannon is a genius. For academics Galois/Gauss/Grothendieck are geniuses.
True genius as in having a burst of epiphany, an indescribable out of control impulse leading an eureka might not even be tied to a person..
It's something that I wonder often about because as a kid I had a few eureka moments and this was a rare bliss. Since college I lost it. I failed hard in maths yet with time I finally clicked .. and I wonder if the smartest people also have similar struggle or if everything is always lightweight inspiration after inspiration finding partial solutions then improved solutions.
True genius as in having a burst of epiphany, an indescribable out of control impulse leading an eureka might not even be tied to a person..
It's something that I wonder often about because as a kid I had a few eureka moments and this was a rare bliss. Since college I lost it. I failed hard in maths yet with time I finally clicked .. and I wonder if the smartest people also have similar struggle or if everything is always lightweight inspiration after inspiration finding partial solutions then improved solutions.