Read the article "How Geniuses Think."Respond to the following: Describe the author's interpretation of Genius and how it differs from conventional definitions of Genius. What are the shared strategies of geniuses? How does your Genius Hour project encourage you to use some of these strategies?The author's interpretation of Genius differs from the conventional definitions of Genius by taking into account that you do not need to be intelligent to be a genius. Many individuals can be creative geniuses and minimal intelligence or vice versa. He thinks geniuses think productively instead of reproductively like most people would on solving problems. They think of how to solve problems differently and in a way that doesn't make them dwell in the past for the solution to the problem.
Some of the shared strategies of geniuses include them looking at a problem in many different ways. They would look at a problem and keep changing their viewpoints until they had a clear picture of how to solve the problem. Another strategy was for them to make their thoughts visible. Most do this by drawing out graphs and diagrams to show what they mean. Geniuses also produce and make novel combinations. The geniuses would produce large quantities of their works quickly, and they would combine many ideas to come up with their own ideas. By forcing relationships, geniuses show this strategy that no one else had looked at to make their ideas work. Thinking in opposites is another strategy geniuses share by being able to think of something in two completely different ways. Being able to think metaphorically is another gift geniuses have to change the way of thinking about two unlike things. Finally, geniuses always prepare themselves for chance. They do not quit after they had first failed in an experiment, and they actively seek an accidental discovery. My Genius Hour project encourages me to use some of these reading strategies by being creative when I have to write each story. I have to be able to change my mindset of how I also thought of the war from the perspective of a U.S. citizen in the future to many different nationalities who were experiencing the war as it happened. Also, I have to be able to produce a lot of stories in a short amount of time just as the past geniuses had to accomplish. I will also have to actively convey the importance of learning on this subject and possibly force together ideas that originally were not seen before.
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