There's no such thing as an idle genius. An idle genius is an oxymoron. I like to think of genius in terms of perspective and thus measure it by how rare and v

There's no such thing as an idle genius. An idle genius is an oxymoron. I like to think of genius in terms of perspective and thus measure it by how rare and valuable a perspective is. Genius is the extreme form of insight. It's really not a measure of IQ, although a high IQ helps. Getting to a rare perspective is usually a product of building up a mental framework and then seeing patterns in- and making associations or connections among seemingly unrelated phenomena. True genius is seeing associations among things previously unseen. A high IQ gives you more ability to build the mental framework needed to see these associations, and a genius has actually applied it.