We no longer have the luxury of allowing only a tiny fraction of our offspring to fight the one-in-a-billion odds to maybe find a seat on the world stage of thinkers, designers, and influencers. And yes, many of our future scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and world leaders are being born in Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Pakistan. Systems of the past are simply not good enough for the future. No matter where a person is on the planet.
The internet feeding the planet options is another start. What does creativity really mean? Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
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This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. How many Einsteins and Mozarts are born in every million people? Can there be more? Should there be more? Asking the toughest of tough questions If we step back and take a macro view of our world and the myriad of trends fashioning it, I find the most interesting questions coming from the following unanswerable questions that no one seems to be asking.
How many Einstein and Mozart-level geniuses are currently being born in the midst of every million newborns? This list is wrong the smartest person in recorded history William James Sidis he had an IQ around This proves that IQ has almost nothing to do with intelligence. There are many people that are clearly more intelligent than the majority of this list. Einstein is so far above and beyond that till this day few people know what he was talking about.
Steven Hawkins is potentially even smarter, these people have an understanding of life that the majority of people to ever walk the earth will never come close to. High IQ is good, applying that to become wealthy is better. Hence the old saying, if you are so smart, why aren't you rich?
Can we please account for the hidden and undocumented geniuses who did not make the history books, I can only imagine how many reclusive intuitive geniuses are unaccounted for an made huge discoveries in potentially undiscovered areas.
When you see things you can't understand, or words that don't seem to add up; they need to be investigated. If we start looking for them, or minimally have an assignment where manifestations can transcend, we will start to see a rise.
Until then, having a general society of overconfident adult sized children working for 5th grader adults who are overconfident is what the recipe is calling for. If we transcended every consumer into a designer, we would get an insane amount of human power.
The amount of man hours consumed by wasteful social media browsing, and mindless information regarding people who have no meaning in their lives, yet are held with the most value-- even above themselves and their families. Until then, we choose to trap those with less resources into redundant lives, which have very little growth with quality life expertise and well roundness.
We are not running a rat race anymore, we are sitting on the wheel watching insignificant scripted personalities, and with enough exposure, we can't escape the influences of a hierarchy system that is eliminating the most powerful tool of mankind, which is expanding information that is useful for not just the empowered, but also the lack of power.
Not having friends in this point of my life, or a wife even, is the most beneficial decision I will probably ever make. One most important person is missing. Is the man called Phillip Emeagwali, a genius still living on Earth, the great mind of the internet. If they can rate the IQ level of dead people, why not rates the living ones and include their names. Please, people, when will we stop believing an IQ test is A any one thing there are two general ones available today, and must be administered by approved sources , and B is a final judgment of anything quantifiable?
The particularly remarkable thing here is: the IQ test was first discussed and invented in the 20th century. So you can say Leonardo had an IQ of literally a billion if you wanted to for that matter, read Walter Isaacson's fine biography: he was no genius but in fact the greatest example of someone who deeply studied things and learned from observation, in a way we all could if we put in a Leonardo-esque effort!
Wherever these numbers came from, they don't come from any IQ test. To invent experimental science through a book which introduced modern optics written while being assigned at residence without access to reference books is pretty though to match. Ibn al Haytham could be considered in a short list. Same for Roger Bacon later. Without them, not sure if we would have heard about Galilei, Newton or Einstein. What about William James said?
He had an IQ of above close to ! He had an understanding of matter and thermodynamics long before thr science world made recent discoveries! I think he best signify the meaning of genius.
When I see any 'genius' list, I can't help but seeing work done in this life. All the people listed on any list have their work measured by 'earthly' standards. The only person I see who not only worked on 'earthly' standards, but also on afterlife standards, was Emmanual Swedenborg.
The afterlife would confuse the greatest minds, no matter who is mentioned. What Swedenborg wrote about the life hereafter is eternal and ever expanding; without end. Nancy, you claim that "men are more intelligent than women" is a lie but you have no proof whatsoever. Tesla is apart of a latter day trendy phenomena. Yes, he was highly accomplished, but not likely to be considered among the genius elite. Review the list given. The IQ test wasn't invented until , and to this day still debated how accurate or useful it really is.
So why is all this false information about IQs being published on this site? How did you arrive at these numbers? If Einstein, who pioneered several fields of scientific study, and still hasn't been proved wrong, presumably had a IQ of about , how do you tie ficticious IQs with a raking of intelligence through out history? The people who say that IQ is meaningless are usually the ones who come out at the wrong end of it.
Over and over again when the IQ of children is taken in the lower grades, it is a valuable predictor of later success in life. Estimating the IQ's of smart people who lived long ago is difficult but can be extrapolated by a number of factors such as how many areas did they excel in and examining their body of work.
There's no doubt that the polymath Leonardo da Vinci was extraordinarly intelligent because he had a broad variety of things that he excelled at and was able to come up with ideas that nobody else had thought of.
IQ tests are environmentally dependent. An American would flunk an English IQ test and vice versa. Nobody on the planet knows how to judge intelligence. Here's how: 1. What was your greatest discovery? How long did it take you to make it? The greatest and most basic principle in the universe is the attributes of cycles in time and space. When these are known, it is then and only then understood how and why the addition of one proton to a nucleus can affect the chemical attributes of the outer electron shell.
I read this - and a number of Gould's other books - many years ago and still feel that it demonstrates so much wisdom. The notion of IQ is based on the assumption that intelligence stops increasing at This is pure baloney. There is no upper limit to human intelligence. My intelligence has increased all my life and will continue to do so throughout all eternity. I have translated 72 modern and ancient languages professionally and will continue to pursue my interest in ancient languages, which are far superior than modern languages.
The very fact that every language on the planet is inferior in every way to its parent language proves that Darwin's theory of organic evolution is pure trash. The ancients lived longer and were far more intelligent than anyone on the planet today. Nobody on the planet knows how to read Egyptian Hieratic. The entire book entitled The Pearl of Great Price was translated from seven lines of Hieratic, about one half of one side of an index card.
Nobody on the planet understands this. There is no such critter as Anubis. It is a butchered translation of Moroni. His hieroglyph is the jackal, and his titles are "He who stands upon his hill" and "the guardian of sacred records by which the world shall be judged.
In the hieroglyphs he is represented as a recumbent jackal atop a chest full of sacred records. I take these as just to invite discussion.
I would put Da Vinci 1 but I have seen lists with Goethe 2, so I am endeavoring to learn about that, and note there is no discussion here so far on that ranking of Goethe 1. Geniuses cannor be compared. The further back in history the less was known about many more subjects, therefore they were able to create more firsts steps on the ladder. So much has been discovered now they are reztricted to specialised fields.
You cannot compare geniuses. They all have a specialised field. The further back you go the less was known so geniuses began the first step to climb. Rubbish - we are reading and writing English, in which the plural of genius is definitely geniuses. If you want to pretend the plural is genii, then you should write the rest of your sentence in Latin as well. Leonardo de Vinci was not a mathematician.
He had to visualize a problem or theory. Could not do math well. The opening paragraph communicates the authors intention. It clearly states that the list is based on other peoples studies.
I understand that many great minds may have been omitted and this is a sample list that shows people who have passed on. I think labelling a person as a true genius is something that is agreed upon based on their field of expertise, contribution to humakind and changed the course of future generations. We probably need to categorise geniuses based on the period of time they lived in and how their work has influenced subsequent cutural, scientific, etc advancement.
I think geniuses can only be nominated many years after their death when society has the chance to reflect on their work. At present I am sure there are many clever people living amongst us but we are not able to assess their impact on humanity at the moment. No one yet fully understands how the mind works. I personally believe we have an upper mind and a lower mind, the latter bearing the brunt of the labor. Every person understands 'My mind is not clear today OR my mind is not functioning well today.
The upper mind is making a judgment call on the lower mind and it is usually accurate. Also, since mental storage starts then propagates in each differently, then the ease of retrieval will be different in each, but since each thought is stored in a different place and differing in frequency, then by the time a person reaches 50 or so, the playing field has leveled much. The biggest differences are noticed by the beginning and paths of chosen thoughts. Hence IQ? Not really. I've got a question that might arise as sort of a point How would one know the IQ of half if not most of these individuals.
I'm just really curious if anyone knows how these specific numbers were decided upon and why. Marie Curie Lao Tsu Wirginia Woolf Dostojevski 6.
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In fact, some research indicates a correlation between high intelligence and mental health issues. The very first IQ tests were designed to identify schoolchildren in need of extra academic help. Over time, that intention was flipped, and the tests quickly transformed into a means to identify individuals who had higher intelligence than the average.
On a standardized exam, such as the Stanford-Binet test, the average IQ score is Anything above is considered a high or genius-level IQ. It is estimated that between 0. With the advent of IQ testing, researchers began to examine whether higher tests influenced anything more than a person's academic success.
In the early s, psychologist Lewis Terman began to investigate the emotional and social development skills of children with a genius-level IQ. Basing his study in California, Terman selected 1, children between the ages of eight and 12 who together had an average IQ of Of these, 80 had scored over Over the next few years, Terman continued to track the children and found that most were socially and physically well-adjusted.
Not only were they academically successful, but they also tended to be healthier, stronger, taller, and less accident-prone than a matched set of children with normal IQs. After Terman's death in , other psychologists decided to carry on the research, dubbed the Terman Study of the Gifted. The study continues to this day and is the longest-running longitudinal study in history. Among some of the original participants of the Terman study was famed educational psychologist Lee Chronbach, "I Love Lucy" writer Jess Oppenheimer, child psychologist Robert Sears, scientist Ancel Keys, and over 50 others who had since become faculty members at colleges and universities.
As impressive as these results seemed, the success stories appeared to be more the exception than the rule. In his own evaluation, Terman noted that the majority of subjects pursued occupations "as humble as those of policeman, seaman, typist and filing clerk" and finally concluded that "intelligence and achievement were far from perfectly correlated.
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