I remember reading that geniuses tend to be more likely to have creative or artistic hobbies. Art is an instance of symbolic abstract reasoning. The level of or

I remember reading that geniuses tend to be more likely to have creative or artistic hobbies. Art is an instance of symbolic abstract reasoning. The level of originating new modes of expressing shape and form, which is what all the earliest humans would have had to do, is the highest mode of intelligence. You can't use today's standards where it's all streamlined and commodified (though still requiring talent) on that period of time where every little innovation, even simple counting, would have required incredible brilliance and lateral thinking.