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.
So I just learned that in Rome, a 'genius' was the spirit who guided a person, family or place, so I guess that spirit must have taught them things.
Genius doesn't have to be academic exclusively, there are other ways the world works like social interactions.
into being, create, produce". Because the achievements of exceptional individuals seemed to indicate the presence of a particularly powerful "genius", by the time of Augustus, the word began to acquire its secondary meaning of "inspiration, talent". The term "genius" acquired its modern sense in the eighteenth century, and is a conflation of two Latin terms: "genius", as above, and "Ingenium", a related noun referring to our innate dispositions, talents, and inborn nature. Beginning to
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.