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Joshua Martins

@joshuamar

Cognitive disinhibition

The creative genius tends to pay attention to things that normally should be ignored or filtered out.

People with schizophrenia are bombarded with hallucinations and delusions that should also be filtered out. However, creative genius differs from them in that the genius can separate bizarre fantasies from realistic possibilities.

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If You Think You're a Genius, You're Crazy - Issue 46: Balance - Nautilus

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Five myths about genius

It's not always easy to know when we're in the presence of "genius." In part, that's because we barely agree on what it means. In Roman times, genius was not something you achieved but rather an animating spirit that adhered itself to people and places.

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The meaning of Genius

The true meaning of the word 'Genius' has been lost in translation in history.

Nowadays it is referred and related to 'achievement', which was not the original meaning. Real genius...

Genius And Genetics

It is a myth that genius parents have genius offspring.

There is no genius gene and genetics can be part of the mix, along with attitude, commitment, and a certain mind-set.

Genius And High IQ

Being a Genius does not equate a high intelligence quotient. Real, creative genius is less about intelligence and more about having an elevated vision.
Genius does not require encyclopedic knowledge or an impressive degree.

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Nicholas J.

@nicij783

For a Genius Brain, Focus on How to Think, Instead of What to Think

How to train your brain to think and work like a genius Human beings are creative by nature. Our capacity to generate creative ideas is central to technological and cultural progress. As humans, our primal instinct is to seek, find, improve or create. Our capacity to learn, adapt and transform our environment is incredible.

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are made to create. We feel useful when we create. We release our ‘stuckness’ when we create. We reinvent our lives, tel..."

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Creativity is complex

It means producing something novel or original, evaluating, solving problems, whether on paper, on stage, in a laboratory or even in the shower.

Knowing how to think

Geniuses know “how” to think, instead of “what” to think.

People who are more creative can simultaneously engage brain networks that don’t typically work together.

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Omar King

@king_one_oamr

False memories: why we experience tricks of the mind

Rob Nash had been excited to meet the former British newsreader Trevor McDonald at his sister's graduation ceremony. "He was getting some kind of honorary degree," Nash recalls. "I was sat right at the back, so all I could see was that he was wearing this awful, garishly multicoloured graduation robe.

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False memories are common

We all misremember things. However, false memories are not so much mistakes but can be very detailed fantasies. Some people remember precise details of an event they attended, only to later real...

False memories have benefits

False memories are not useless. It seems that they're able to improve our mental processing.

Memories are our reality. Remembering isn't just looking up fact's from our mental files. It's more like telling stories. If we forget, we reconstruct the details, even if the details are false.

Memory conformity

When we remember what something 'should' look like, we will often construct a memory to fit the mould.

False memories can also happen to groups and could lead to mass delusions. People were shown a fake CCTV footage of a shop robbery and discussed what they’d seen. One of the participants introduced false ideas: the thief had a gun, right? Three in four people later recounted these fabricated ‘facts’ when questioned.

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