What is Genius?
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What is Genius?
Genius means what? Having uber-intelligence, in league with Einstein. Or as multiple intelligence theories show that people can be intelligent in other areas, such as emotion, social grace, etc. But for the author/artist, how do you spot the genius?
Or is there no such thing as genius? That it's 99% work and craftsmanship and 1% inspiration? What is Genius?
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Making it new is not necessarily a sign of genius. There are many qualities. This is merely one and again not necessarily the most important.XavierAlex wrote:As Ezra Pound said: "Make it new."
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In our post-modern world 'new' is no longer a consideration. There can be no new art or thought. Things can be fresh, even profound in the context of an ever-changing world, but the material/ingredience of these fresh perspectives will continue to be composed of the detritus of the past.XavierAlex wrote:As Ezra Pound said: "Make it new."
Genius is sensing, finding, re configuring the past and present in meaningful ways.
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The eyes can only see what the mind has, is, or will be prepared to comprehend.
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Misty: That is pure crap.
Simply Wee: That is pure crap.
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New might be thought of as creation: the origination of something from nothing. More commonly, what we call new is simply new to us; things, ideas, black holes, elements that have always existed but we just didn't know about or had forgotten.
As we are swept along in the flow of time and we deal with our changing situation (world population, health of the earth, etc.) we need creative solutions. The problems we face may be thought of as 'new' in some sense but everything has been faced at some time. The creative among us, the problem solvers, will find the solutions, hopefully, but they won't be 'new' rather they'll be obtained knowledge creatively applied.
Similarly in art creativity addressing our human dilemma is what we seek and consider important. This creativity will manifest itself using the means we have always had at our disposal.
Google is about information dispersal which is as old as mankind.
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"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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"Genius is to intelligence what giant is to height." I love this analogy.Scott wrote:I think we can agree that a genius is an extraordinarily intelligent human person, by a relative measure. Genius is to intelligence what giant is to height. Any single line drawn between tall and giant or between smart and genius may be arbitrary, like drawing lines on any such fuzzy relative scales, but the concepts both still have meaning.
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I'd like to hear about someone who is truly is a genius, now. Personally, I think it is an illusion and simply out of reach. If I were really looking for one, I might go all the way back to the days before we had control of fire.
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." by F. Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. Novelist (1896-1940)
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