A Heartbreaking Blog of Staggering Genius

Pitää puffata vähän tuota linkkivirtaankin heittämääni Wiredin juttua What Kind of Genius Are You? Sen lukeminen nimittäin on balsamia haavoille kaikille meille, jotka kuvittelimme olevamme väärinkäsitettyjä lapsineroja, mutta tajusimme myöhemmin olevamme vain hikoilevia pullukoita. Sitaatti:

Genius –– is not the sole province of 17-year-old Picassos and 22-year-old Andreessens. Instead, it comes in two very different forms, embodied by two very different types of people. “Conceptual innovators,” as Galenson calls them, make bold, dramatic leaps in their disciplines. They do their breakthrough work when they are young. Think Edvard Munch, Herman Melville, and Orson Welles. They make the rest of us feel like also-rans.

Then there’s a second character type, someone who’s just as significant but trudging by comparison. Galenson calls this group “experimental innovators.” Geniuses like Auguste Rodin, Mark Twain, and Alfred Hitchcock proceed by a lifetime of trial and error and thus do their important work much later in their careers.

Vaikken olekaan Welles, minusta voi tulla Hitchcock. Jee!

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