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I saw this on a different forum so I thought I'd pass it on.
Channel 4 is to launch a major new competition format show to spotlight the country’s undiscovered brainboxes.
It is estimated that there are thousands of people in the UK with the brains of a genius, from all walks of life and backgrounds – who don’t even know it. Secret Genius will see Alan Carr and Susie Dent test Britain’s brainpower like never before to uncover the country’s most gifted and unsung minds.
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Channel 4 is to launch a major new competition format show to spotlight the country’s undiscovered brainboxes.
It is estimated that there are thousands of people in the UK with the brains of a genius, from all walks of life and backgrounds – who don’t even know it. Secret Genius will see Alan Carr and Susie Dent test Britain’s brainpower like never before to uncover the country’s most gifted and unsung minds.
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It is quite hard to define what one means with the word “genius”. There are people with unique mental skills eg amazing memories but I would put people into the genius category only if they have had a significant impact on a particular field eg Newton or Einstein. Therefore I doubt they are going to uncover any geniuses. I am sure there are plenty of bright people who fell through the cracks at school and so don’t have qualifications in line with their potential.
Skeptisk said:
It is quite hard to define what one means with the word “genius”. There are people with unique mental skills eg amazing memories but I would put people into the genius category only if they have had a significant impact on a particular field eg Newton or Einstein. Therefore I doubt they are going to uncover any geniuses.
What a genius actually is is an interesting question. I'm sure there are many people who've transformed the world who weren't actually very clever, but they saw one thing others didn't.
And there'll be a lot of hyper intelligent beings who spent their lives sat on a sofa drinking Irn Bru until they expired.
I've met two geniuses in my life, one couldn't make tea to save his life and the other one has terrible taste in shirts!
One can listen to a very complicated piece of music they have never heard before ONCE, and then, an hour later transcribe it onto musical staves. The other designs cars with a pencil (drawing the inside of clutches etc at full size) and then gets them built and makes millions.
You can't be good at everything, and geniuses tend to lack in other areas.... tea and shirts for example. :0)
BTW, having a good memory and general knowledge is nothing to do with genius.
One can listen to a very complicated piece of music they have never heard before ONCE, and then, an hour later transcribe it onto musical staves. The other designs cars with a pencil (drawing the inside of clutches etc at full size) and then gets them built and makes millions.
You can't be good at everything, and geniuses tend to lack in other areas.... tea and shirts for example. :0)
BTW, having a good memory and general knowledge is nothing to do with genius.
Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 15th February 13:51
bloomen said:
Skeptisk said:
It is quite hard to define what one means with the word “genius”. There are people with unique mental skills eg amazing memories but I would put people into the genius category only if they have had a significant impact on a particular field eg Newton or Einstein. Therefore I doubt they are going to uncover any geniuses.
What a genius actually is is an interesting question. I'm sure there are many people who've transformed the world who weren't actually very clever, but they saw one thing others didn't.
And there'll be a lot of hyper intelligent beings who spent their lives sat on a sofa drinking Irn Bru until they expired.
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