the.com/genius
one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent ignoring everyone who said it couldn't be done
means A person of extraordinary intellectual or creative power, or the exceptional ability itself.
from From Latin genius, the guardian spirit each Roman believed was born alongside them — a personal deity who shaped your character and luck. The word comes from the root gen-, 'to beget' (the same family as 'generate' and 'genus'), since this spirit attended your very birth. Over centuries the indwelling spirit became an indwelling talent, and by the 18th century 'genius' had shifted from the guardian beside you to the brilliance within you.
- roman roots
- originally a guardian spirit assigned to every person
- einstein's brain
- stolen during autopsy, kept in a jar decades
- IQ myth
- high scores predict success worse than people think
- late bloomers
- many peak creatively well past their forties
leonardo da vinci — renaissance polymath who invented the helicopter concept, painted the mona lisa, and dissected 30+ human cadavers in 1490s milan
albert einstein — developed theory of relativity in 1905 while working as a patent clerk in bern, switzerland
marie curie — only person to win nobel prizes in two different sciences (physics 1903, chemistry 1911) and discovered polonium and radium