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So what are some other myths that are said about geniuses? There is one where it is said that geniuses are usually very useless people and very unpractical people. We have the great example of the genius that, despite his geniality, is a clumsy useless person that is not very practical. We have the well known example of the genius that despite his geniality, he is a clumsy useless person that never accomplishes anything in his life. Yes, this is a very heard of example, but it is never seen. This kind of genius cannot exist given that his definition is a total contradiction. It is not possible to be a genius and a useless person at the same time. Many times we have seen those kinds of people who are called brilliant bu

t dumb. This type of case is easy to explain: this does not mean that they are clumsy geniuses. These are clumsy people that have been erroneously entitled the label of genius. There are diagnostic errors. These are the living, walking and tangible proof that the traditional tests of intelligence and that are actually used are not useful for measuring the intelligence of a person. We cannot be intelligent, with good mental capacity, with good understanding, capability to discern, sagacious, understanding, reasonable, attentive, clear, brilliant, discrete, prudent, tuned, reflexive, warned, awake, alive, perceptive, ingenious, and be clumsy that the sae time. Or can a person do this? This is not an apocryphal person. This type of person really does exist. This type of person is simply not a genius though. This is usually a person that has a great amount of knowledge and has studied a great deal, that knows how to accomplish the tests that allow his knowledge to be known but not his intelligence. It is the manifestation of the old IQ tests and they do not

work.

This is the type of genius that acts like a genius. Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as a genius due to all of the wonderful things he did. It is pretty evident he never submitted himself to an IQ test. In the same way, all of the great geniuses of history are remembered for what they did, and not because of the scored they obtained in their IQ tests. Very few of the great geniuses actually did IQ tests. Let us suppose they had done these tests. If they had obtained average IQ scores would we stop reading the plays of Shakespeare or listening to Beethoven’s music? Would the lights go off if Edison had been stupid, like he was considered when he was a child? Edison is a perfect example of the point that we are trying to get across. Edison learned how to read at an early age, given that his mother taught him. He had however, bad results when he was going to school. The same thing happens to a lot of geniuses. It does not mean that he obtained bad results because he was stupid. He had bad results because he was smart and therefore, became bored. The director of the school even told him that he was sure he would never amount to anything good. Edison was certainly not a stupid person, he was a genius. He patented over one thousand inventions. Can a stupid person accomplish that? It was not he that made mistakes; it was the teachers that were mistaken.