How is genius different from ordinary people?

Genius is natural and cannot be trained. This conclusion was made by Russian scientists. Doctor of biological sciences, Professor Sergey Savelyev is an expert on the personal characteristics of the brain. Throughout his life, he studied geniuses, trying to understand how genius was born and where it came from. The head of the Neuroscience Laboratory of the Institute of Human Morphology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Sergey Savelyev shared his observations with journalists:

"The brains of different people are very different. Even if you don't talk about geniuses, just take for instance ordinary people. In different people, many structures are found in the cortex, ie Large structures help us think, not the same ".

Intelligence depends on the state of gray matter , the scientist said. He studied the brain structure of several dozen outstanding people. Among them are Nobel laureates, poets, artists and musicians. Usually, in talented people, the area of ​​the brain responsible for hearing, vision, or other functions is not the same as in ordinary people.

"What is the individual structural change of the brain? This is the number of nerve cells involved in one or the other. In the cortex an average person has about 11 billion neurons. For example, The sight is about 3 billion cells, but there are not three billion but nine billion cells that are for sight. "

Genius is due to birth.(Photo: shadyoaklearning.com)

The more neurons are, the greater the link between them and the more successful they are in specific areas. Large painters may have larger visual fields so they see what ordinary people don't notice.

"Talented people have similar structures related to vision. And they not only have a single structure, but there are dozens of such structures. The same ability in ordinary people is very low. , only very few geniuses ".

The brain's unique organization depends only on genetics. It is impossible to train or educate to turn ordinary people into geniuses, if his brain does not have development structures.

One more thing is the genius of the genius is 1.5 times heavier than ordinary people . Thus, at first people were not the same.

"People are different than a panda compared to a dog, or a fox compared to a wolf. So it's not surprising that we can't agree with each other."

Genius is the ability to create new things that haven't existed in nature before. But usually, when genius is born, genius is often not recognized. Professor Savelyev said that the next few decades, technology will make the situation change.

"We need to increase the resolution of a modern medical scanner to about 5-10 times. That will be enough to detect some of the innate human abilities. Furthermore, discovered during the period when that person is alive ".

Medical scanners are currently unable to do that. On the screen of this device, gray matter normal human brain and famous composer brain have the same image. Only injuries are clearly visible.