A genius is someone who has the same information that everyone has but only he is capable of turning that information into something that no one else were capable.
You might think about modern geniuses such as Einsten, Jobs, Gates, Musk, Zuckerberg and so on, but in fact genius is doing something that wasn't done before, the guy who first create the wheel probably wasn't a very cultured one, but he was definitely a genius of his time.
what is the actual point of this thread?
By most of your examples, a definition of a genius should be, "someone rich enough to hijack other peoples ideas"
Motivation, take a break of all the black dicks.
I’ve been farting in jars to save them for later for years.
We can also add Freud, Davinci, Michelangelo, Newton, Tesla. You just sound bitter, what about stop complaining if someone is rich or not and try to improve your own brain capacity? For sure money does help you achieve your goals, but if that was the main reason then every single rich person would be a genius don't you think? How many bilionaires there were in the world when Jobs created the Iphone? Why him and not any of the others? Think deeper.
Actually they're just people that don't think like NPC's. They know that creating something that's already big in business they're not getting anywhere so they think 10 years foward and use replacing concepts to combat the business market. So if you want to become like them, think wise with your money and be the first one before others!
Most people fall for pyramid scheme's, gamble with their money, try to get big in a already very competitive market without any use to their brand. They end up still being nobodies.
I try to.
>mentioning einstein in the same sentence as jobs or zuckerberg
opinion discarded.
None of the assholes you mentioned came up with anything original, funnily enough. They just popularized it or got propped up by someone else interested in their business.
Einstein is debatable since his shit is derivative. The rest are well connected businessmen.
He's right, and he should be bitter. It's stolen valor for intellectuals. The fact these people parasite off other people's contributions and excellence spells out injustice and springs a negative emotional response in anyone sane.
Because he was able to market it properly.
You're attributing a car's engineering to the salesman.
First, the Iphone is a useless gadget
Second, it's nothing new.
You can only praise his genius as a scam artist, which I concede, it's respectable on a technical level.
What about you, user?
I'm not a well connected businessman. What are you asking exactly?
No great mind goes unnoticed, specially nowadays.
You have an extremely naive outlook on the world if you believe that to be a true statement.
A genius is someone who can't treat cancer with orange juice, but tries anyway.
Let me guess, feeling wronged? The world owns you for your great intellect and you should be respected for it? Trust me, this world tests everyone and if you didn't notice it then you probably failed.
Well, guess some people out there can have a different view about any of them specially those who lived beside them, me? Well, I just have acess to what is public knowledge.
No, I don't derive truth from personal experience, that's perhaps a habit you project unto me.
I merely observe history and how charlatans frequently get away with it.
With the advent of mass media, it matters very little who innovates, just who is most effective at spreading it.
Some people, for one reason or another, are more effective at diffusion, and thus are given misattributed credit.
Lurk more then
Noted :D