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True, but if one allows that genius is also a way to say "able to do something few others can" then Jobs would meet that definition, along with Elon Musk, etc.
by ekanes 11y ago
True, but if one allows that genius is also a way to say "able to do something few others can" then Jobs would meet that definition, along with Elon Musk, etc.
- rodgerd 11y agoAt that point you've expanded your criteria to Hitler and Jesse Owens.
- matwood 11y agoHitler was a genius at politics and charisma. No one raises to power like without some sort of gift. He was also crazy and evil, but no one said all genius is used for good causes.
- ekanes 11y agoHitler was an awful human being. But he was a genius orator. Jesse Owens was a physical genius, though we'd perhaps more easily say that someone performing a more complex skill was a genius, such as Steve Nash etc. In any case, I think it's interesting and useful to think there are many kinds of genius.
- emerongi 11y agoI'd like to see you lead a whole nation to believe your batshit crazy ideas. It takes a little bit of genius to do that.
- rfrank 11y agoand people who speed-solve rubik's cubes.
- dbbolton 11y agoYour definition doesn't really fit in the context of the article though, since it applies equally to Ballmer. The author was clearly trying to foil Ballmer (in the literary sense) by painting Jobs as a much more classical type of genius than what you described.