![]() ![]() Professor Howe pointed to Charles Darwin, who was wrongly believed by many to have been "an aimless young man who unaccountably turned into a great genius". Like everybody else, even the greatest minds that have ever existed have had to struggle and strive to achieve their goals. ![]() Their efforts are focused, and all geniuses have a firm sense of direction." "They excel at concentrating and persevering. They struggle very hard and they keep on persisting. "What makes geniuses special is their long-term commitment. We cannot all be geniuses but we can learn from them. "Genuine creative achievements depend more on perseverance over the long haul than on prodigious childhood skills. Professor Michael Howe, of Exeter university, told the British Psychological Society's annual conference in Winchester that as extraordinary as geniuses with exceptional scientific or creative talents are, they have much in common with ordinary people. Geniuses are made, not born, and even the biggest dunce can learn something from the world class minds of Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Amadeus Mozart.ĭespite the widely-held belief that geniuses are all child prodigies, a race apart from ordinary mortals, a British psychologist claimed yesterday that the secret of their success lay more in hard work than in any innate intellectual gifts. ![]()
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