DOI: Kanazawa Published 1 August Psychology Journal of Research in Personality Abstract The biographies of scientists indicate that the distribution of their age at the time of their greatest scientific contributions in their careers age—genius curve is similar to the age distribution of criminals age—crime curve. The age—genius curves among jazz musicians, painters and authors are also similar to the age—crime curve.
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The point is that ideas are more a function of being at the right place at the right time and acting on it than they are about some particular genius. A good analogy is Scrabble. Also, in life, like Scrabble, some of it has to do with the letters that happen to be in your tray. This is part of the myth that genius is a phenomenon of the young. That is luck. True genius involves sweat and perseverance.
That is luck" So then, luck is a phenomena of the young? We were told of the "genius graph" in psychology in the lectures about evolutionary psychology. The explanation goes something like, we need to reproduce hence our ambition is more to do with getting a partner, hence why we do great works in early age, because once we have a partner we don't bother about it? It clearly is a theory, but one can hardly argue with the statistics, except that there are " lies, lies and damn statistics".
I think that's an example an evolutionary "just so story". There may be some truth to it, but "genius" impacts such a small percentage of the population, that I think calling it genetic is quite a stretch. Ambition, yes.
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