>>11728501Because fundamentally genius isn't something that anyone is all the time. The way it works is that almost everyone is prone to moments of genius and by the same token almost everyone is prone to moments of unadulterated idiocy. Genius is a transient state that career and hobbyist thinkers endeavor to attain in order to grapple with difficult questions and problems and come up with novel and complete explanations and solutions for those questions and problems.
>how does this apply to high IQ "geniuses"People with a higher IQ just generally are more adept at processing the information required to make the most these transients states of lucidity and clarity that we call genius. However most people, even bright ones, aren't necessarily more prone to experiencing those moments of lucidity clarity in the first place.
The idiot experiences a moment of clarity, and he has a thought, sometimes a poignant one, and he moves on without much consideration and maybe a slight feeling of loss when that moment passes that will quickly be forgotten.
The every man has a moment of clarity and pauses for a time, considers something deeply, and makes a deeper connection they didn't have before or find some new insight, and then they file it in the back of their mind and move on with their day with an appreciation of what just happened and think pleasantly towards when it will happen again.
The brilliant man will experience a moment of clarity will quickly find themselves consumed by a particular train of thought, skipping from concept to concept and weaving them together in that all to brief moment and do their best to come to that sacred note of finality and completion but rarely reaching it all in one go. When the moment passes there will be a deep sense of loss and longing for when it will come again, and they will often find themselves contemplating how to make that moment come back that much faster.
That's all it is, a moment of clarity reached and a bright mind.
