Has anyone here ever met an actual genius? Like a savant?

Reading at 18 months isnt that impressive. I could read at 26 months, which is a good deal longer, but not that much longer. Babies can pretty much learn to read as soon as they can learn to speak, you just have to teach them.

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Not a true genius but this guy I knew used to do math problems for fun. Not easy shit either, he loved deriving giant nasty trig equations and the like. Now I'm pretty smart, but he was miles better than me at math. He was also one of the band's best players.

What about speaking 8 languages and inventing your own by the age of 8?

Its also important to note I am definitely not a genius. My IQ is 108. My parents just decided to start my education as early as possible.

Kinda?
We had a guy who had straight A's and had the nickname "genius"
He studied all the time though, and the only subject he was struggling with was english as a foreign language
He is 22 and currently doing his masters in chemistry in one of the most elite unis in my country.
I'm still friends with him and honestly he has to be the smartest person i've met

No, I only speak 2 languages. But I mean specifically reading at an early age is not that impressive. I'm just sharing a personal anecdote because I think people are more capable than we give them credit for. Did people like him really have a better brain or just a higher level of motivation and opportunity?

What is your parents IQ?
To start your education as early as that means that they must be teachers or lecturers or something?

The GTA for my organic chemistry class last year was one. Literally the smartest human I have ever met, taught me what a genius was. I thought I was close to genius level but I was proven very wrong.

Met a number of fellas who'd competed at the International Maths Olympiad.

Were you breastfed or spanked?

>Reading skill -100

The guy in the photo had parents who were obviously genetically gifted, something like 4 degrees each and too of their fields so I think for him he was probably majority genetics. But there are geniuses born out of squalor when the parents are not special. Personally I think some people are born like that. Like they were missing something, or two wires crossed or a part of their brain was abnormally developed or something. Like when people are born with disorders or born gay or something. I don't thinks it's developed for the most part, I feel like it's inherent but relying on public school to develop it is silly. There was a guy in a documentary I watched, where since birth he had a separate way of thought, instead of using his working memory he naturally associated things with pairs of images he'd seen or things he'd learned, and in doing that he could recite a given binary code to something like 7000 numbers

>Reading skill -100
Act two, geez reatards in da house

No, neither of my parents went to college. I dont know what their IQ is but I would say they are both average intelligence like me. They just wanted me to get jumpstart on education.

Yeah, both.

Well this is your lucky chance to meet one OP. AMA.

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Now I'm curious, what did he/she do to make you reconsider yourself?

>It's interesting that people would study maths in their spare time to only understand what people devised a century ago.

They invented the light bulb over a century ago, too, but I'm glad people still learn how they work and how to make them.

Breastfeeding has been shown to increase a child's IQ by between 4-9 points.

Yes. My uni is full of actual geniuses.
Supposedly there's a 12 (now 13) year old at one of the other colleges who's reading maths, but I've never met him.

See, I don't think there's anything inherently pretentious about studying math for the sake of it, but if you're in middle school and you're pulling out a calc textbook to read at lunchtime like some of the kids I grew up with, that's pretty wanky

I think these are relatively intelligent people who lack the awareness to differentiate between what schools call gifted and what the world calls gifted.

Well, as I see it:
First of all, you are very aware of your surroundings, my mind feels sharp as I can see and hear with details, a rough example will be like Photoshop layers, I'm processing all the layers in realtime, but I still see them in detail and isolated if I need. I'm a musician, this works great for example while listening classical music, since I can hear all the sections and what chord/scale/progression are playing.
The difficult part is living and working with people, since the majority of the time you are surrounded by average people.

this is pretty accurate.

fuck you chink moot

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That's a face of a rabid shitposter right there

Cont.
Average people tend to work slower, or make mistakes which they try to blame in external factors, that includes other people.
Benevolence, empathy and patience is a must.
See, I firmly believe making good things and be kind to others brings great results, in the short and long term.

That's different. Light bulbs are functional. It's been written down and a computer can be told how to make them but learning about power and circuits and shit is functional. Or will be when the bombs drop or you're stranded on an island

But the further you go into maths the less applications there are for it. It is simply maths for the sake of maths

Several.
First of all, I am an actual genius. Like a savant. And I've dated one. And I've met a few in school and traveling.
AMA, I guess.

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Give me an example of how smart you are please?

Sorry I didn't articulate it well. Personally I could never study maths because I know I am not intelligent enough to even scratch the surface. Some people are, they might never contribute to maths but if they are genuinely interested in it then cool it's their thing. My issue is that some people might find it interesting, but they find the edginess of studying maths as a facet of their personality more important than the actual maths

I had a classmate in sixth grade who's probably one of the smartest people in my age range in the country. He consistently topped entrance exams to the most prestigious unis here. Now, he's taking up an accelerated medicine course for geniuses.

Unfortunately, no. I'm the smartest person I know among my generation, and I'm merely smart, not a genius.
t. 130 IQ

All right.
>I could read when I was two.
>I can literally feel math in my body and do speed math in my head.
>I was on TV a bunch as a kid because I can spell.
>I can spell because I literally see words when people talk.
>I have an eidetic memory.
>I can read in 4 languages and 2 of them are dead.

You are just pompous.
An intelligent person would not reveal his power level.

I pretty much just don't IRL unless somebody asks me.

I don't want evidence of why you're a genius but I would like you to provide something that might depict your supposed genius

Talking about geniuses in Jow Forums is always a show to behold. The subject is interesting, but the self-reported genius attention-whores can't avoid trying to jump on the spotlight to hijack the threads.

It's always cringy, in this thread it started on the very first reply. Of course, an intelligent person surely would seek the mental estimulation needed on a repetitive board about masturbation, whore-worshipping and crybabing, instead of on a varied of skills. You are "smart but lazy", like those cool anime characters defeating everyone with bored facial expressions.

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>An intelligent person would not reveal his power level.
Why? They would if there would be any doubt if the savant is truly the smartest in the room, as all people who are unchallenged the vast majority of time do.

I'm not going to say I believe him because it would be stupid to, but I think if I genius ever did speak about himself it would be anonymously. But I also think he has too much self awareness in the way articulates to be a genius

It's what I expected when I posted the thread. I find it fascinating and have no one to talk to about it. I'm enjoying it so far though.

The smart but lazy meme is something that I have always found intriguing but terrifying, to the point where I'm questioning my own self awareness

Why does it seem like intelligent people generally wear glasses?

>But I also think he has too much self awareness in the way articulates to be a genius
I don't know why that would figure into it. Yeah, a lot of brilliant people are spergs, but even then, I don't think most of the ones I've met lacked self-awareness.
At least not about their own abilities. The girl I dated was a professor's daughter, and I guess her dad knew John Nash, and supposedly he was less self-aware. But even then, it was in a sleeping-on-benches-at-uni-don't-give-a-fuck kinda way, and not in a I-don't-know-I'm-bright kinda way. And that's information I'm a few degrees removed from anyway, so take it with a grain of salt.

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More time reading, perhaps. At least that may be why the stereotype came about from a time without internet. Now every dunce has shitty vision too, not just the avid readers and the few genetically fucked.

Half of us are walking around partially-blind and don't pick up on it because we don't have to read enough that being partially-blind costs us a lot of time.

This, too, though.

I feel like more med courses should be accelerated or at least subject-comptenecy-based, but hey, somebody's making a buck off all those loans...
Good on him.

Strange. The valedictorians in both my college and high school were both well-off normies who did school well because they actually gave a shit about it. Typically they weren't even that smart.

self awareness was probably the wrong term in hindsight. People like William Sidis, Isaac Newton and that Russian maths guy, probably more that I don't know about, I'm new to the subject, removed themselves from society and said things like they would remain celibate and were kind of robotic in their views on intimacy. It seems to be more than an illthought trope so I remain sceptical of you being a genius, I find it hard to believe that a genius would open about dating, even acting non-chalant typing about it. I can tell you're intelligent by how you type and the story but this is Jow Forums so I won't have wool pulled over my eyes

Smartest person I currently know is a girl from my university, but I'm not confident you could call her a genius. She is a borderline Mary Sue, though, it's crazy.

She is enrolled in two unis at the same time and has full grades in both courses. She seems to be an extremely dilligent student, reading everything she's given to completion and carefully completing tasks. Listens to classes attentively, writes down almost the entire time (with a rare look at her phone). Only studies a week before each exam, which consists of rereading everything (not skimming past bored, she seems to really read what is in the pages).

Apart from that she has extra activities, like studying languages and playing sports. She barely seems to have time. Her successful parents pushed her to be this active from early childhood, but on her account she would be "bored studying just one college course". Her brother seems to be very intelligent too, sharing the same upbringing.

>low IQs in this thread thinking all geniuses are alike
>thinking they are all humble and nice and awesome

being a genius only means that you have great brain power. nothing else. you also WON'T emulate being a genius by doing/thinking like them.

also there's 0 genius in this thread, 100% guaranteed

hmmm.. I wouldnt call that savant, lots of kids can spell and read early including myself. I used to be able to do math in my head pretty well when I was in high school because I practiced it as a "party trick." Probably the most impressive thing is reading 4 languages. I am under the impression that most people can learn 2-3 languages fluently, so I think 4 languages is a little above average. But not savant.

What's 17 minus 9?

8 desu
origino

I honestly can't even be bothered replying to this

the biggest retard in the thread

I am below average in intelligence because I perform worse in every brain related task. I have shitty spatial awareness, shitty reaction times, shitty impulse control and used the word shitty 3 times in a row cause I have a bad verbal memory. Math gives me a headache and people look at me and tell me I am dumb and how I can do things better on a regular basis.

But you walk like Rihanna

There was a 14 year old kid taking senior level STEM classes in my high school. Really nice and down to earth too.

Unless she bumps into things constantly I doubt that