Op-Ed Columnist - Genius - The Modern View - NYTimes.com
I really like this type of anthropo-socio-cultural subjects David Brooks often covers.
This piece reporting recent research on genius confirms many of the things I have always suspected. The development of what is referred to here as "Genius" is simply the result of implementing the predictable steps that help make things appreciably better:
- To do things well you must spend the initial time to refine or break down a whole block into smaller units that are mastered with precision
-Once this process is mastered, executing other more creative sequences can be performed with superb flawlessness.
With respect to BICs,
-the effort is yet again to break a complex product into elementary units
-Once this process is mastered, handling other more complex or creative structures can be performed with superb flawlessness.
I wish Brooks would have also dealt or would deal in another piece with the forms of genius that society fails to appreciate in due time or that get altogether lost, those ultimate artists of Flaubertian imagery; the type of structural societal changes that may help unhindered expression or enjoyment of the various forms of genius. In the end a genius that is not duly recognized is a loss to society.
As Schopenhauer said: "talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see". Using this lexicon, we'd say the article is more a discussion on talent rather then genius.
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