Genius, Talent. Comparison, differences and common things.

In high school we always had a smart guy that everybody hated, maybe because he was an antisocial or he was the guy who always responded question to the teacher. Maybe to use the word genius is incorrect or maybe not, why? Genius is somebody who does something inexplicably different, somebody who creates and uses his/her knowledge to resolve problems. Now how can you explain the talent? If you see somebody who does difficult actions without effort, maybe you are seeing a talented person. Genius and talented people have been studied by the psychology, but the branch which have been favored the most is science.

Of course we can’t say that just the science is affected by genius and talented people, because music is one of great example of that. Instruments in music have suffered changes by the ingenious of musician, for this we have an incredible number of instruments around the world. It is easy to talk about genius people in music like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, but where can we find the talent in music? You just have to search for people who can interpret classical music easily, or people who can hear a guitar solo and play it in less than a day. Geniuses in music are almost extinct, many people say that it is really difficult to find somebody who have created his own work with orchestra, in these days people are dedicated to copy the work of Beethoven or anybody else in classical periods, maybe the people who do this are talented.

Science, for me, is the most benefited of all the branches. It’s because all periods have had different objectives, for example, in Greece when philosophy and science are siblings, they created basic knowledge, and we talk about Pythagoras, Arquimedes and of course Aristotle. Now in the next period of time appeared Newton, he did a revolution in math; it could be the birth of the engineering. But Newton made a mistake, and nobody saw it until Einstein resolved what he did wrong, and this could be why I say that science is the most favored by geniuses, because it’s not a competition to be the best, but it’s a form of resolving difficult mistakes and trying to give your own opinion. Talented people in science are who fix and have enough knowledge about machines and environment where they are working.

Is the social science affected by the genius and talented people today? Sure it’s, because many ideas that they use today are created by people with vision. But in many cases people misinterpreted what the authors said, like Marx. He gave his idea of perfect style to live, he called communism, today the communism is like a damnation because many governments modified what he say and created socialism. Well, for me Marx is a good example of a genius, and of course presidents and people who have the power in countries are talented because they use their abilities to convince people, but they are not genius because they don’t have new ideas and then don’t created new knowledge.

Being intelligent, having skills to do something, how can we explain each characteristic? They are inherited or people build them by studying and practicing? The history is being written by genius but talented people are the most efficient assistants that they can have. To be genius, you have to obtain knowledge of some specific issues and try to do something that people have never imagined. What we need is fresh ideas than can change the world, ideas that resolve the form  they see our planet, respecting what we built.