On Genius, Intellect, and Obsession
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On Genius, Intellect, and Obsession
The people we traditionally consider to be smartest are those best at some sort of a general math / reasoning ability. This is not what genius is. Genius is being extremely good at a couple of things that really matter. genius is having a vision
Alexey Guzey • Intelligence killed genius - Alexey Guzey
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If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
Natalie Audelo added
If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
Paul Graham • The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
Katharina Sommerkamp added
A better definition of a genius is, "a man who has discovered how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought."
James Allen • Think And Grow Rich (1937 Edition)
Genius is the ability to understand — both logically and intuitively — the central truth that unites all fields of knowledge and endeavour. Only a truly open mind has the ability to synthesise all this data.
Richard Rudd • The Art of Contemplation: Gentle path to wholeness and prosperity
WORDS: Genius by David Whyte
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Emily Sokolow added
“To live out our genius is to live out the conversation between our particular inherited body and the body of the world from which we seem to have been made.”
A genius is a man most like himself.
-Thelonius Monk
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