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When some psychiatrists attempt to explain genius, they talk in terms of mental disturbance. This is a strange way of describing remarkable men. (Sadly, it is usually men, though occasionally women are also mentioned.) Psychiatrists often refer to geniuses as people who tend to be oversensitive, melancholy and even schizophrenic; they channel their destructive energy into their masterpieces. A survey carried out on 30 American writers revealed that 37% of them suffered from depression. A British study of famous artists (including poets, painters and sculptors) showed that 38% had received some sort of psychiatric treatment.
An alternative view of intelligence, expressed at a recent conference in the French city of Bordeaux, sees geniuses as people who matured very early and are workaholics with an amazing ability to produce a lot of work in a short space of time: Bach, for example, with his 46 volumes of musical compositions. Does this mean intelligence and even genius is a question of how much is created? We don't know the answer yet, but Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors of all time, said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration! Other interesting facts about geniuses are that they tend to be born in Spring, like Leonardo and Shakespeare, and they become orphans in their early childhood. One wonders whether it is a sign of good or bad luck to be born a genius.