Common characteristics of high IQ test free creative genius

Why do high iq test free creative genius?

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses.
He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.
 
There are only a few enlightened people with a lucid mind and style and with good taste within a century. What has been preserved of their work belongs among the most precious possessions of mankind. We owe it to a few writer of antiquity (Plato, Aristotle, etc, ...) that the people in the Middle Ages could slowly extricate themselves from the superstitions and ignorance that had darkened life for more than half a millennium. Nothing is more needed to overcome the modernist’s snobbishness (Albert Einstein, 1954).
<<< See more >>> Are people with high IQ test score more successul? Having read many great philosophers over the past ten years (see Bibliography) I feel that I am reasonably well qualified to comment on some common characteristics of high iq test free “Creative genius”.

• They tend to live fairly isolated lives such that they have a great deal of time to think and they are not so indoctrinated with the beliefs of their time, thus they are more likely to create and discover new knowledge;
• They tend to be very stubborn and believe that they are right, but this stubbornness is founded on a passion for Reason and Truth;
• They believe that things can be understood and explained by Science and Reason. That reason is founded on Principles and their logical deductions which are True if they correspond with our Sense. (Thus opinion plays no part);
• They tend to be both curious and very good at understanding how things work. Often philosophers were are inventors;
• They tend to be non-specialists with a diversity of knowledge (very different to modern education).

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