Comments on: Is Genius Status Attainable?

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By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:06:49 +0000

Beware of sleeping *less*. Sleep deprivation degrades retention and recall.

Random Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/07/030709064042.htm

Interestingly Edison used to pepper his working day with ‘micro-naps’ during which he was often struck by revelations about the problems upon which he was working.

Keys to retention are regular recall of information.

By: Ryan Jerz

Ryan Jerz — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:46:13 +0000

I can add some thoughts, speaking as a true, authentic cubic zirconium. Colin mentioned the Internet and its inundation of our lives as possibly bogging us down. What if it's instead our own personal test? We take on more and more online and feel like it's wearing us down, but all it's doing is better preparing us for decisions and thoughts down the road, without our even knowing it. This is about to be way more pop culture than I'm comfortable with, but having just finished both Blink and Everything Bad is Good for You, I might actually be making sense. Consider. In Everything the case is made that we're following more complex ideas with less trouble all the time. Those ideas, according to Blink serve to help us judge more quickly based on the knowledge we've gleaned, even if we don't realize it. That's a super simplified version of the thought process, but I think it makes sense. And now, I can say that I've actually thought out new knowledge (at least for myself) and it's stored in a SQL database for eternity, or until the next time Kenzer's host explodes or he neglects to pay his bill. Also, pray the html tags work...

By: TJ Crawford

TJ Crawford — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:29:29 +0000

I definately think the more we feed our rains the more we can learn. However to feed it junk doesn’t do us any good either. I think if we objectively and stategicly feed our brains that is when we can recognize the largest gains.

By: Josh Kenzer

Josh Kenzer — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:14:02 +0000

Presumably sleeping less would allow you to keep learning more. Do you feel that your memory has a finite capacity or is it just a matter of how much you feed it?

By: Colin Loretz

Colin Loretz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:28:42 +0000

Great bit of introspection here. I’ve been trying to tackle this myself lately. The internet places a wealth of information at our fingertips and it has a tendency to inundate us rather than help us retain anything. New articles are written daily on the same exact topics, it is hard to keep things in order.

It is because of this that I have taken up reading good ol’ fashioned books again from the likes of Machiavelli, Dante, Ovid, and Homer.

It also might help to sleep less Supposedly all the great minds have done it.

By: Robert Payne

Robert Payne — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:54:25 +0000

To me, genius is demonstrating exceptional mental capabilities that are either creative or comprehension; but in both cases it is what these capabilities produce that has any long term effects on humanity and what people remember and classify as genius. It is in part what you have mentally ingested, but it is really how you mash it together to produce something that shifts the paradigm or creates something previously unimaginable. How do you practice genius? Well, you could start by wearing mismatched socks, dropping apples on your head, getting thrown in jail, chopping your ear off, and moving to Salzburg. :~)