A genius is someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of unprecedented insight.
An often-cited characteristic of a genius is ability and propensity to recognize or create connections between facts, phenomena, theories, and observations that had not been connected before in other people's minds. Another distinguishing characteristic of genius is immense productivity; even if only a few of their ideas survive and are remembered to fame, their biography typically records a lifetime of original thinking. Other qualities associated with genius include curiosity, playfulness, imagination, wonder, wisdom, inventiveness, vitality, sensitivity, flexibility, humor, and joy. Specifically, joy at making a new connection, obtaining a new insight, or accomplishing a new feat can be a powerful motivator of geniuses. Another view is that all significant creative leaps involve the components of talent and technique, and that the most universal and necessary aspect of technique is dogged persistence.
An often-cited characteristic of a genius is ability and propensity to recognize or create connections between facts, phenomena, theories, and observations that had not been connected before in other people's minds. Another distinguishing characteristic of genius is immense productivity; even if only a few of their ideas survive and are remembered to fame, their biography typically records a lifetime of original thinking. Other qualities associated with genius include curiosity, playfulness, imagination, wonder, wisdom, inventiveness, vitality, sensitivity, flexibility, humor, and joy. Specifically, joy at making a new connection, obtaining a new insight, or accomplishing a new feat can be a powerful motivator of geniuses. Another view is that all significant creative leaps involve the components of talent and technique, and that the most universal and necessary aspect of technique is dogged persistence.
