Genius
Who is a genius? In my friend Suchan’s views, he is someone having extraordinary and brilliant qualities, which he acquires by birth. To say it simply, he calls it “in-born” talent. Did he miss something? What do you think? Boy! Where the hell is hard work…!!!
Albert Einstein, the world calls him a genius and by doing so they unjustly put a blanket over his hardships and the pains that he went through, and the number of hours and years he pushed himself persistently to discover something, yes something, which he himself would have been unaware of. And then, they easily ignore that how he put his career at stake by clashing with the authorities and the school's regimen and teaching method. And, had he been unfortunate enough to have not discovered what he was looking for, even after this much hard work, he would’ve ended up in obscurity and that too without any prosperous career to console with.
See sacrifice, that’s what it takes to be a “genius” and indubitably not “in-born” talent. But would Suchan know that, would he? He is happy, absolving himself of any hard work and persistence efforts, by comfortably attributing someone else’ to a mystifying term “genius”.
It takes everything, yeah everything to be called a genius; it takes five or may be fifty times more effort than an average mortal; and certainly not the so-called “in-born” talent.
And in the end, I do hope that this “good” friend of mine has got some good-sense of humor.
Dear Sulabh,
ReplyDeleteJust checked facebook and imagine my surprise to be mentioned in your blog. I feel honored to have inspired topic for your blog.
However, With reference to the discussion we had during training, I think u didnt get the gist of my argument. It was not to undermine the hard work of the people. Great result require great amount of hard work. No denying that. Einstein and all other great scientist has put humongous amount of effort to obtain the title "Genius".
My only point was all people are not born with same mental acuity. To quote George Orwell " All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
Some people have more mental capacity than others. Even in school or college we must have encountered someone who would understand a lot of things in one go whereas we have to toil very hard.
As understood by my good friend Sulabh, i never meant that all genius are "in born" or they were destined to greatness by birth. I never discounted the value of sedulity. Neither i am happy by defining all successful person as having in-born talent.
I had objection in your assertion that all people are born equal with equal mental capacity. I believe as Orwell said "Some are more equal than others", though his context may be different.
I think your concentration in training created this misunderstanding.... hope i have clarified the same.