Human Genius
...ld be more accurate to imagine the relatively immediate effect of genetic inputs being to affect, say, the production of some or other Hormone." He goes on to say, "So even when it is indisputable that genetically based influences upon human variability have been among the contributing influences determining the rate and direction of an individual person's progress, it would be wrong to conclude that any traits or activities that have been affected by those genetic inputs have been straightforwardly determined by them." It seems there is no denying that our genes play some role in our intellectual abilities. Steve Allen (1993) brings up the point in his article that, "We can see in the first syllable of the word a clue to its original Roman meaning, which survives in such words as gene, genetics, and genealogy.” According to this conception, the formula of genius looks like: genius= = talent + innate features. Probably originality and creativity can be regarded as the main outcomes of such features. “Talent works, genius creates”, once Robert Schumann said. But there is another point of view. “I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly”, claimed R. Buckminster Fuller, an outstanding American architect, inventor, and writer. “Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others”, said Mark Twain. Why do people usually bury their talents? Probably, that’s because of lack of will as idleness is one of the most flagrant sins of nowadays society. And maybe another reason is a lack of inner freedom and power to set free our unconscious creative subject. Thomas Edison, a prominent inventor, whose devices were to change our world, suggested that “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” “No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius”, said Anna Pavlova, an unsurpassed Russian ballet-dancer. From this point of view, the formula of genius looks like: genius = talent + labour. It’s not a disputable question that there’s no simple answer to explain the nature of genius because there’s no more complex object to examine than the human mind, and these two formulas can’t be proved to be 100% genuine. Probably, the answer is, like Einstein’s theories, in some unifying model. "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both tog...