Discerning Genius

One connecting thread…the ability to grasp process.  
All those who categorised as genius, whether in physics or social interactions, whether
intellectual or emotional, have the ability to discern  process.

In an article about the Five Houses Puzzel developed by Einstein, (http://purpleslinky.com/trivia/quizzes/the-five-houses-logic-puzzle) process is elucidated.

Process, and how people of various intellectual levels deal with Process.

Simply put, there are those that glance at such a puzzle  and don’t want to ‘waste‘ time on it.
Those, who because it isn’t instantly resolving, walk away.
Those who work it through, learning/creating the process of how to solve it.

But it is Not just that particular puzzle one is solving when one learns the Process.

It is not the 1 + 1 = 2 ; it is the process of getting the total which is important.
A genius will not be locked into the 1 + 1 but into the reasoning behind it. 
As the problems get more complex, the genius has no more difficulty with them
then with the simplest, because the process doesn’t change.

The usual ‘trick’ question on I.Q. tests;

If All As are Bs
If All Cs are Bs
are all As Cs?  
(sometimes written as;  A = B/ C = B/ A = C ?)

Now one who doesn’t know the process of how one logically tests equality
they may answer yes; not realising that:

If A = Israeli
if B = Middle Easterner
if C = Palestinian
Does Israeli = Palestinian?

It is not getting the answer which defines genius, it is knowing the the logical step by step
activity (even if the steps take microseconds) one uses to solve the problem.

Many young people, born into the Doom era, where one mindlessly fires at moving targets,
have not the patience to work out a complex problem. They don’t have the attention span
to listen to an explanation. They want nothing more than the answer without the process.

Even in social situations where it is important that they understand the ‘why’ of it, they
prefer the ‘bottom line’ so have absolutely no idea of the why and can not perceive the
‘hidden’ context.

It doesn’t have to be mega history, it might be in a family’; the genius grasps why the
parents don’t want Uncle George at the event, the fool doesn’t.

 The genius, who might be eight years old, understands, because during his lifetime he’s
heard remarks, and recognises that when Mommy and Daddy use certain terms and a
certain tone of voice, they are saying something negative.

The fool, who could be fifteen has never ‘groked’ the pattern, never thought beyond ‘point?’
Needing short sound bytes to explain the world, he will not have the ability to understand
so will be given; “Because he’s not invited.”

The problem with education today is that the process is ignored. Memorization replaces
reasoning, and if it’s ten o’clock this must be history class, giving the child a smorgasboard
of information, nothing complete, nothing filling.

The genius is not satisfied with Columbus sailed in 1492, he wants to know why 1492,
wants to know who paid for the voyages and what they expected.

This is because the genius has grasped the process.