Michael Michalko recounts a brief review of academic work to uncover what a genius is and the role of intelligence. He suggests different strategies that geniuses use including
- Geniuses look at problems in many different ways
- Geniuses make their thoughts visible
- Geniuses produce
- Geniuses make novel combinations
- Geniuses force relationships
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Useful strategies, but of course it does help to be born a genius in the first place. Music and art are classic examples. You either have the ability to start with, or you don’t. A blind man will never be an artist, and a deaf or tone-deaf one cannot become a musician.
Do you know if Beethoven composed/played after he was going deaf?
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