Being a Genius Is Due to Hard Work, Not High IQ

No. Being a genius means having an intelligence quotient of 140 and higher. "Hard work", as you say, has absolutely nothing to do with being a genius. Someone with an IQ of 95 could have a very good education and could be far more successful than someone with an IQ of 140, however his ability to use logic and solve problems would be no where near the person who has an IQ of 140. Jobs and careers hardly ever require much intelligence, only knowledge, and knowledge is NOT what makes one a genius.

Take a look at Einstein, he was a slacker in school during his childhood, he despised doing work. He was lazy, but he was a genius. Many people are like him. "Genius" is a term of intelligence, not work or education. Anyone on this planet could achieve any amount of success if they wanted to, it all just depends on their level of motivation to do so; it has nothing to do with being a genius.

But more importantly, success in life has nothing to do with being a genius. As I previously stated; it's all about your motivation to achieve success, intellect is not necessarily a factor.

IQ is a number with no units. Being a geneus is when you use your IQ and through meaningful actions and human interactions do something useful with it, thus turning the unitless IQ number into a tangible outcome that one can assign a unit to. This may be number of books, the umber of patents, the number of inventions. etc.

You are obviously a stupid person

So, Picasso was genetically a painter genius, do you think he would have been a great artist with no study? Stupid IQ tests are nothing but a tool for ego masturbation, just because you have an IQ of or over 140 does not make you Michalengelo, Picasso, Freud, or Einstein, you can have very special visualization abilities, so what? Would you be a CEO just because you can predict the next nonsense image in an IQ test? Of course intelligence is important, but it's also scientifically proven that the hard-working people have a higher IQ, that is, geniuses might be assumed both intelligent, and hard-working. I agree that a person with an IQ of 58 may not be a luminary, or revolutionary, but with an average IQ, and a great deal of dilligence, you can have great success. Even if you are brighter than a Harvard alumnus, just because you graduated from a less prestigious university, noone would hire you, they would prefer the Harvard guy instead. Perspiration is the thing what makes successes, "Genius is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration", as one of the greatest geniuses, Nikola Tesla, stated.

No! Genius is something which is created. We have all heard that one was not born a Genius and this is true.

Diamond and Gold were not were not attractive in their initial states but through hardwork, they were polished and even though they look attractive at their finial state, they still need to be polished, if not they will loss their quality. This is where hardwork comes in. (that is consistant polishing)

Experience is what makes one to maintain the mark of being a Genius and hardwork is what makes one gain experience. Hardwork = Exprience = Genius.

A student who is first in class will no longer be first again if he is not hard at work after being first.

Therefore, Hardwork is what is needed to maintain a mark of being a Genius.

A genius does extraordinary things.This, they mainly dot through hard work,Persistence and some brain.Some individuals lack the later hence their continued flop.There must some brainy aspect!

Actually , being hardwork is very good and it's undeniable that HARDWORK will never win genius.No matter how a normal people with normal IQ work hard , genius will still easily get into the top ranking if they work hard.Because all genius are lazy , then you are trying to prove normal hardwork people will easily win over genius? Genius are born to be. And need to be sharpened as well. How good the quality of a pencil and it still need to be sharpened. As an example, some baby could speak their first word at around 4-7 months which is considerly as genius as normal baby speak their first word at 1 year old or longer. So , there is different in people and not just hardwork will suceed.

GOD IS A GENIUS. The PRINCIPAL of LIFE. HE CREATED US IN HIS IMAGE HENCEFORTH WE ALL ARE GENIUSES.

Remember, the whole schooling thing is the reason why the Genius became a subjective term as students are JUDGED in order to well equip them in some of life's basics. That boy/girl in class who always came first had to be a GENIUS in that 'INTELLECTUAL aspect because of the CONTRIBUTION he had or has on this earth. We need bankers, accountants. We also cannot do without mechanics, nurses, or sole traders so bless the Low IQ' people. There is a genius in each person. It maybe the gift of being persuasive, working with numbers or using that voice or those hands.

BEEN RICH ONLY RELIES ON YOUR ABILITY TO LOCATE AND USE THAT GENIUS IN YOU.

~Joshua Mkhwananzi~

There is no god. Clearly, you are a moron.

What? Being a genius is defined mostly by motivation, and you'll find most people who've worked hard in their specified field will gradually rise up to the genius reputation.

Depending on what you excel at (naturally is exclusive here, everyone has tendencies, not gifts), can you only be a genius if you work hard at it. The downfall of the term genius being associated with heavily theoretical subjects is that by definition, it can be associated with anything. Whatever you excel at above average (obviously through practice), can you be notified as a genius.

But what's to say you're a genius? Once you acquire a level of fame in your community, people will call you a genius in terms of your skill, in that one area. Everybody, and everyone has different skills, acquired from practice, so it's difficult separating someone 'with an IQ over 140' from people who excel at something such as sport, for example.

Sorry to shatter your egos, but you all know that IQ tests are unreliable.

dont work hard,work smart.

Dictionary Definition of Genius
1. an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc.: the genius of Mozart.
2. a person having such capacity.
3. a person having an extraordinarily high intelligence rating on a psychological test, as an iq above 140.

As you can clearly see, genius is directly defined by natural ability or intellect. While I do agree that hard work and experience determines one's career success far more than natural ability, it's completely inaccurate to say that genius is a title that can be attained from work, rather than natural skill.

A genuis is having high intellect, just being able to process faster than others. If you have a computer that has vast information that is great, but if you have a computer with vast information that can spit it out quickly and problem solve new information with our being taught. Well your computer is a genuis. It is not about all the knowledge you can remember. You can remember all the times tables, but do you understand them. Or can you figure out how to do it differently or an alternative way? It is about your ability to think, reason, and understand.

Genius is natural talent and ability. Some people are born with sense and smarts. They have a head start on people who don't. When learning how to do something, yes, it takes time to master it. But a genius would learn easily where someone less talented would take more time and help. I'm not genius, but I will say this: genius is born, not made. It sucks. But if everyone could be geniuses with hard work and no talent, then how come we don't have more of them?

Being a genius is a relative notion and both theories of genius ascribed to by the authors on this post are correct. First there is a natural born ability involved. That ability is the ability to learn with application to put it simply knowledge may be power but without the wisdom to apply that very same knowledge will fall upon its own sword. Imagine a bright child being born with an IQ of 300 however if the canvas of life he or she is introduced into is blank versus a robust painting with many hues and diversity of technique it does not mean that there is less of an IQ involved. It mean he will need a more traveled road to reach that self awareness. Imagine taking an IQ test for Harvard on art science and mathematics if you were born into a tribal Waziristan or to nomadic herdsmen in the Gobi. The capacity would be there but not the knowledge that we hold as valuable to define one as a genius. Which brings about other questions such as would a Harvard genius be able to be a genius in a nomadic Gobi

Actually IQ is a terminology that defines how quick a person can adapt mentally to new tasks, likewise a continued perseverance towards a mentally challenging task. You can in fact be born with much intelligence or train yourself to gain more like lifting weights to build muscle. In today's so called "civil society" people are often put down or reduce their aggressiveness towards certain goals and become complacent to their position in life. As a culturally adaptive species this makes logical sense; why waste energy towards becoming a genius if you don't need to be? This is the show you run and often it doesn't suit the lives of everyone on the planet, because we actually do need your intelligence to solve the number of problems mankind will deal with like poverty, diseases that haven't occurred, or nuclear power.
When you say a chess master with a low IQ is able to out perform high IQ individuals, you're saying that that chess player has worked harder to understand the rules regarding the game of chess. Although given the same material (say if that was unlimited) and time it takes to each opponent to prepare in advance of some games, you'll find that the genius will often times out wit the dunce per say.
Why is that? A computer with more CPU i7 Intel power will process more information than a Pentium chip. Yes you can open up calculator on both and do 2+2 to get a result of 4, however Crysis 2 on Ultra high settings will render much better on the faster processor. Given a longer amount of time the Pentium chip will be able to process the same amount of information.
It's like that saying goes, "slow and steady wins the race". In order to do well in society we are given the benefit to highlight people who work hard, and it's important for their IQ to increase as they do.

hardwrk brings more success because intelligence somwtimes fails but not hardwork

Such an encouraging article! gave me another life.Actually I am a Software Engineer by profession.I was struggling to become Analyst.I was thinking that an analyst is someone who is gifted(just like when I used to think about programming when I didn't know how to program).

sounds interesting and as a science student myself I find it quite convincing .