Geniuses are so rare that it seems impossible to create one. And yet extraordinary people like Mozart and Newton have something in common: their environment, sweat and talent.
Environment provides resources and opportunities for genius. If Mozart had not received musical training as a child, his chances of becoming a great composer would have been slimmer. If Newton had followed his mother’s advice to become a farmer, he would have been less likely to discover gravity.
Sweat is essential for success because geniuses are 99% perspiration. In the 1990s, a German study showed that exceptional violinists had practiced more than 10,000 hours by the age of twenty, while ordinary players had less than 5,000 hours.
Talent is the gift we are born with. The difference between a genius and an ordinary person is that geniuses love what they learn and practice. It is talent that makes hard learning and practicing an enjoyable process. Since everyone has natural abilities, the key to becoming a genius is to find your gifts. It is obvious that the more learning resources we have, the more likely we are to discover our talents and enjoy a lifetime of learning.
The intelligent revolution will make it possible to share all human knowledge and wisdom with everyone via the Internet, so that we can enjoy art and science throughout our lives. In other words, the revolution not only provides a wealth of quality resources in digital form for happy learning, but also gives people the perfect opportunity to become geniuses.
