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Excluding yourself, have you ever met a true "genius"?

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Excluding yourself, have you ever met a true "genius"?
I know a guy that speaks 8 languages ( so he tells me, I believe him) and is just down right intelligent. He scored over 150 on a real IQ test (not on line).

I observed his intellect as being a bit of an encumbrance to him, he had an attitude of "I'm smart, I don't have to think much about this" which led to some problems.

So, have you ever known a true genius? Please share your thoughts about them.
 
Quentin Tarantino. Assuming that a quick handshake counts as meeting someone. :lol:
 
Several.

Some are quite personable and some are helpless.
 
I met one of The Proclaimers, they're songwriting genuises if that counts.
 
How do you define it?


My father, which I met once can read, write and speak six languages.


I have known a few with high IQs if you put much faith in those.


Besides being a Trump supporter my brother is high IQed and he can play music usually just by hearing it a few times. If it is solo even once.

My youngest nephew is autistic and that 10 year old can do some amazing things. I am sure he is one, but he can't talk much. He mostly does his own thing.

Many in my family can speed read and contain all that they read.


My Great Uncle was killed at 44, but he never left school. He would pass first in his class with a masters or something, then go back for a BA or something. By the time he was killed he was the most educated person I personally knew well, with many degrees.
 
I'm not stupid (140 IQ and being engineer in the French system of Grandes Ecoles, through the Classes préparatoires) but during said classes préparatoires, I met some truly brilliant and bordering genius guys in math and sciences. Their clarity of mind and speed of resolving some very difficult and obtuse problems for my point of view, was mind blowing and awe inspiring. Mingling with those rare people made me feel very small and humbled.

But as social being they kind of were "normal". Some charming, some rude and arrogant, some humble and some no so much.
 
I've met a few people that have been smart beyond my comprehension on a few occasions. One guy in particular seemed to succeed at any academic field he tried (started off with me in social anthropology, now a neurologist. Sweet guy as well, super practical

I'd be lying if my partner didn't come across as being in that category. He claims to not speak anything well outside of English, but I've seen him have incredibly long and complicated conversations in 4 languages and his educational background tends to point towards it - Cambridge grad in nat sci, followed by PhD at the same place in theoretical chemistry. He behaves well enough for me to like him, and I'd say a lot of his success is more being someone that works incredibly hard for long slogs. I still seem to outperform him on University Challenge most weeks though...
 
I know lots of very intelligent people, but I think perhaps the word genius gets bandied around a bit too much. The one who I believe really deserved the word didn't just display great intellect, but had a sort of passion for his subjects that might have been described as manic if it were not channeled with such focus. He was opinionated, prolific, engaged and generous but also caustic, domineering and temperamental. He observed things with a preternatural keenness and speed. He could drop words like bombs. He lived in a trailer, but taught at a university. I would hesitate to describe him as a 'good' man, though he was undoubtedly a 'great' man.
 
I have known several geniuses, including myself. Too bad most of them have no common sense. They couldn't poor piss out of a boot if the directions were on the heel.
 
We use the word ´Genius´ for some people we don´t understand, and the word ´retarded´ for others.
 
I've met Anne Burrell and she's a genius in my mind.
 
I don't know if this counts but one guy I met was able to find the day you were born based on your birth date, in a matter of seconds. Maybe it's nothing special or there's a formula. I remember my friend asking other people to try that and everyone was surprised at how he was guessing right.
 
Geniuses are not as rare as we think nor as smart. From the comments here, and from hearing people use the term, the belief is that it marks intelligence that is breathtaking in its insight, speed, breadth, or innovation. Those that exhibit that superior level are most likely geniuses to be sure, but the broader tier below them also qualifies and legitimately.

Genius is generally categorized as two standard deviations above the norm, and higher. An actual score is not so much the thing as being in the 98th percentile and above in the scoring.

So, even if you've never had an IQ test, your yearly nationalized standard tests would give you a ranking as an overall score.

That means that 2 out of 100 people are geniuses, so maybe one person in ever three to five classrooms if they run between 20 and 30 students per class.

And yes, I've known many geniuses.
 
Not a genius and have never met one. A few not-quite-idiot savants who are good with numbers, but that's it.
 
Would a clone of myself count? Even if it only survived for 6 months?

Then no I have not. But I have met my share of wannabes and self proclaimed geniuses who couldn't think their way out of a bathroom, when they were facing the open doorway!
 
Willie Boy said:
Would a clone of myself count? Even if it only survived for 6 months?

Then no I have not. But I have met my share of wannabes and self proclaimed geniuses who couldn't think their way out of a bathroom, when they were facing the open doorway!
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Most seem to think that their IQ goes up about 50 point after 3 or 4 beers.
 
Ain't that the truth! They think the more they physically blubber and stumble about the greater their IQ becomes. Fucking morons
 
Hell, most everybody I meet is a genius on the curve. Just like most everybody a short person meets is a giant. :)

Two of the smartest things I've ever done have been surrounding myself with really smart people, and staying as quiet as possible other than to ask questions. Now people think I'M smart, even though I'm just a hanger-on.

Lex
 
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