My rhetoric got a bit over my head, but I really think that every (healthy) newborn human has the potential to become what is called a "genius". This is the nor

My rhetoric got a bit over my head, but I really think that every (healthy) newborn human has the potential to become what is called a "genius". This is the norm. The limiting factor isn't some predetermined thing like genetics. It may come into play when we look into a very narrow set of like-minded and like-socialized where one could argue that "von Neuman" was the most "gifted" of the Martians bunch. But even there one could also argue that he just spent more time on problems. Does this maybe count as intelligence, too? The perseverance? From the Polgár-Sisters the youngest - Judit - wasn't necessarily the smartest but no one in her family would argue that she wasn' the most strong-willed by a big margin. I definitely think the genetic factor is way overblown (like by one order of magnitude) in Western societies. From personal experience from East-Asian or Middle-East (like Iran) countries, they have a more pragmatic outlook (not denying some genetic factor but they really don't care so much, in our parts it is seems like some fetish in comparison).