No-one is a Genius (part-ii)
In continuation with my previous post on the concept of genius, I’d like to add some more thoughts here.
This is an attempt to study the mental aspects of it.
Are we ready to concede that somebody is a genius that easily?
What are the decisions that influence us in this perception? Peer pressure? Media glare?
Possibly.
My question is :
Mentally, is it not an insult to our intelligence that we indulge in hero-worship without reason?
Because hero-worship is, in my opinion, killing the competitive side of us.
We blindly take it for granted that XXX is a genius.
If some of us bother to examine his credentials or go through his achievements and start comparing these with our own innate abilities, we maybe justified in making a conclusion.
Further, if we start doing this and start comparing ourselves with perceived ‘great people’ (again I cannot bring myself to use the word ‘genius’), we might end up being perceived as great people ourselves in future!
Unfortunately, maybe in accordance with Paretto I guess, only few people attempt to do this.
Most people are just blind believers and hence susceptible to external influence.
As long as these blind believers that form the majority of our population exist, ‘geniuses’ will also co-exist. 
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