I took an IQ test as a child and they said I was at genius level.
Same. Lots of geniuses were geniuses in one area of study, not so much many areas, that is, they were only geniuses at one thing, like art or science.
Yes, I was excellent at geography, science and history yet absoluetely terrible at mathematics.
Geniuses generally excel in a way to where they are able to discover new things, or advance knowledge of specific subjects.
I think highly of men like Hawking or Einstein for the way they opened up the world with their discoveries.
converging on a definition that emphasizes creativity and eminent achievement. Usually, genius is associated with talent, but many authors (for example Cesare Lombroso and Arthur Schopenhauer) systematically distinguish these terms.
Etymology.
In ancient Rome, the "genius" (plural in Latin "genii") was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family "(gens)", or place "(genius loci)". The noun is related to the Latin verb "genui, genitus", "to bring
university student. He later recalled that "when I looked at the life stories of geniuses" during his student years, "I found the same thing...They all started at a very young age and studied intensively." He prepared for fatherhood prior to marriage, reported "People Magazine" in 1987, by studying the biographies of 400 great intellectuals, from Socrates to Einstein. He concluded that if he took the right approach to child-rearing, he could turn "any healthy newborn" into "a genius.