I once heard that "Genius takes the complex and makes it simple." (That was out of a book, and the in-the-book example was teaching special needs kids to do a spacecraft simulation by making the training into a board game.)
I'll add to your list: - Do you ask questions that confuse the experts, especially in a 'break the record player' fashion? - Do other people hear your interesting discussions and find them tedious, annoying, or argumentative? - Do you get sidetracked with random details of simple tasks? (Think "The card is wrong!" arguments on trivia games.) - Can you come up with Take a Third Option choices? ("If I am, may I remain there, and if I am not, may I soon be.") - Do you operate on a different [higher] level of ethics than most people in your age or social group? [Note: arguing that oneself is a genius so oneself is exempt from ethical restrictions is not a sign of genius, it is a sign of being a jackass /at best/.] - Do you find usual social rituals boring and/or pointless?
Let's see, Genius Questions.
- I've always been able to comprehend a lot of intellectual information way ahead of my peers.
- Social and emotional stuff...splits. I'm very good at emotional labor and regulating other people's emotions, and as a kid I was usually better with adults than other kids. Conversely, I fell I am not great with social or emotional skills in general (objectively, I am probably better than average though. Plus, I keep butt-dialing social bonding routines. ???)
- I am certainly frustrated that people do obviously dumb things... and then whine about the consequences.
- I am interested in less-common topics (how many people like to discuss xenolinguistics?) and fashion is more interesting if I think of it as art/artistic presentation or a tool. (I suppose the proper word would be style, not [fast] fashion, then?)
- I will be politely interested in sports if and only if I already like someone to whom sports are interesting. (I.e. Asking how their team did, or "I'm playing baseball socially, not competitively," where the bonding is more important than the actual activity.)
- I try to nerf my explanations to things but there are still plenty of things people don't understand (some obvious, some less so). Not sure if it is intellectual, if I have nonstandard brain wiring, or if I am a half-step out of consensus reality tho...
- I can usually easily do things that are variations on an existing skillset (having a high-level skill isn't in and of itself remarkable), but I think I do have above-average abilities in figuring out which skillsets will work with wildly different problems.
- Cooking...I can sometimes toss together good meals from odds and ends; I'd think of it as a subset of artistic skill. I am above average with visual art. I also tend to jury-rig solutions to all sorts of problems, ranging from making custom educational materials to fixing kid's toys.
- Re: experts...define expert.
I am definitely very smart, and my family has a tendency towards high intelligence on both sides, but I don't know if I count as a genius. It depends on where you draw the line, I guess?
For what its worth, the one relative I have who I would clearly describe as a genius...well, I never got to meet him, but from what I can figure, we would have all sorts of delightful interesting conversations...as soon as he got over the fact that I am wearing pants*!
*He would be shocked by modern fashion (grew up on the Edwardian Era). But to his credit he had absolutely no problem with smart women!
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2024-03-15 03:24 am (UTC)I'll add to your list:
- Do you ask questions that confuse the experts, especially in a 'break the record player' fashion?
- Do other people hear your interesting discussions and find them tedious, annoying, or argumentative?
- Do you get sidetracked with random details of simple tasks? (Think "The card is wrong!" arguments on trivia games.)
- Can you come up with Take a Third Option choices? ("If I am, may I remain there, and if I am not, may I soon be.")
- Do you operate on a different [higher] level of ethics than most people in your age or social group? [Note: arguing that oneself is a genius so oneself is exempt from ethical restrictions is not a sign of genius, it is a sign of being a jackass /at best/.]
- Do you find usual social rituals boring and/or pointless?
Let's see, Genius Questions.
- I've always been able to comprehend a lot of intellectual information way ahead of my peers.
- Social and emotional stuff...splits. I'm very good at emotional labor and regulating other people's emotions, and as a kid I was usually better with adults than other kids. Conversely, I fell I am not great with social or emotional skills in general (objectively, I am probably better than average though. Plus, I keep butt-dialing social bonding routines. ???)
- I am certainly frustrated that people do obviously dumb things... and then whine about the consequences.
- I am interested in less-common topics (how many people like to discuss xenolinguistics?) and fashion is more interesting if I think of it as art/artistic presentation or a tool. (I suppose the proper word would be style, not [fast] fashion, then?)
- I will be politely interested in sports if and only if I already like someone to whom sports are interesting. (I.e. Asking how their team did, or "I'm playing baseball socially, not competitively," where the bonding is more important than the actual activity.)
- I try to nerf my explanations to things but there are still plenty of things people don't understand (some obvious, some less so). Not sure if it is intellectual, if I have nonstandard brain wiring, or if I am a half-step out of consensus reality tho...
- I can usually easily do things that are variations on an existing skillset (having a high-level skill isn't in and of itself remarkable), but I think I do have above-average abilities in figuring out which skillsets will work with wildly different problems.
- Cooking...I can sometimes toss together good meals from odds and ends; I'd think of it as a subset of artistic skill. I am above average with visual art. I also tend to jury-rig solutions to all sorts of problems, ranging from making custom educational materials to fixing kid's toys.
- Re: experts...define expert.
I am definitely very smart, and my family has a tendency towards high intelligence on both sides, but I don't know if I count as a genius. It depends on where you draw the line, I guess?
For what its worth, the one relative I have who I would clearly describe as a genius...well, I never got to meet him, but from what I can figure, we would have all sorts of delightful interesting conversations...as soon as he got over the fact that I am wearing pants*!
*He would be shocked by modern fashion (grew up on the Edwardian Era). But to his credit he had absolutely no problem with smart women!