Human body has fascinated humans ever since the human race has begun to understand things. Everyday, we observe things, we learn a lot of them but never do we realize the immense potential locked in us. Starting from this post, I would like to share some of my thoughts on this wonderful system which I have tried to acquire from various resources. However, the master, "Brain" remains my favorite pick; and so I started off with the "Master" himself - Human Brain.
Yes...Is genius congenital? Well, many of us have been (or would be sooner or later be) confronted by this very question. And most of the times, we do shrug off our shoulders by considering the answer to be YES. Well that is true, but surprisingly, not always. So the answer to the big question is 'Yes and No'. Looks controversial? Well yes, it is. And that has always been in the world of the most beautiful and intricate system in this world - Our Human Body.
Whenever we see a person outperforming others in a radical way, we often resort to a simple and obvious conclusion - "He is a genius by birth". But even seldom do we think about other reasons such as why is he like that? What made him achieve that incredible feat? Was he practicing that trick all along? Is he good at other things as well? Or most profoundly, is he a real genius? These were some of the questions lurking around in my mind as well over a period of time. Recently, I have had the opportunity to watch some really good videos on human mind and its power and also the hot topic of this post - genius itself! Here are some of the interesting and even mind-boggling findings about our mind...
Our mind is the most complex organ of our body. With over some millions nerve cells or neurons and other tiny tissues and organs and weighing just about a kilogram, our brain sits on top of the body controlling everything that's going on in it. It’s a known fact that it’s the connections among the neurons that decide our all our thought processes, including intelligence and memory. Now what is that that differentiates the infrastructure of a brain of a genius and an average person? Well, to some of the people, its pretty much hardwired by birth...which gives them the name congenital geniuses. But most of the geniuses have hardwired their brain to behave more intelligently at their will and wish. Yes, it is true. Everybody even you and I can create such masterminds. What we don’t know is that this is actually possible.
Susan Polgar is a Grandmaster in chess game. But it’s quite interesting to know that she was just an ordinary girl like any other in her childhood. It was her father's psychiatric experiment that turned her into a chess genius. No it’s not about giving some shocks or anything. Years of hard work, dedication, passion and desire have literally hardwired her once-normal brain into a genius. Can you imagine a 14 year girl to actually study thousands of books and understand millions of chess games? Susan did. Now she can beat a world champion at chess in 60 seconds...yes literally 60 seconds. Now this level of intelligence is not something she got by birth. Her desire, passion, hard work paved way to some really mind-boggling results.
Our society is full of such examples. In fact according to a survey, there are more such custom tailored brained people than the actual congenital geniuses - musicians, dancers, scientists, businessmen and many more. If you study about them, you will find that despite being amazingly good at some things, they are not quite good at other things, which might come as a surprise. Is a person who is extremely good at dance equally good at mathematics? Well not often. Reason...it’s not only the genius, but also the knowledge.
'Practice makes a man perfect'... now a cliché, is extremely important and can become a single most powerful tool to attain the mastery or genius. While some people have the knack of cracking the problems like cutting a cake, some people solve it quite diligently and based on what they have learnt with their experience. Doing something repeatedly actually hardwires the nerves in the brain with that task and after some time, you need not even think of how to do it. This is what exactly happens when you learn a bi-cycle or reach your home through a complicated path even after a long and tiresome day and never forget that path.
Now is there any limitation to this 'hardwiring' process? Or is there any 'threshold'? Well, NO. The mind's capacity is unlimited. Actually, the more you utilize it, the more powerful it becomes, just like any other muscle in our body. All it needs (physically) is good food, fresh air and good rest. And when it doesn't get these, don’t worry, it knows how to take care of that...something which is not under your control after some limit. But, yes it needs practice; and not just some random practice, but a highly systematic one. That's why our parents insist on having a timetable, keeping surroundings clean, and being disciplined.
We all have some amount of genius inside us, buried deep within. Only some of us dig that out and reap the benefits. Most sadly, the very thought that 'we don’t have it' almost always holds us back from achieving the impossible. The moment we break that barrier, every one of us can become the super-genius.
