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"Don't you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you... Is that your thing? You come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend... You pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend? See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own, and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and, two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin' education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library." ~Will Hunting

I think I have no capacity for original thought. Maybe that is what makes geniuses geniuses. Taking all of the knowledge available and creating the next step. A new paradigm. A new... um... word.

They can take two plus two and get five, or even ten...

So let us suppose for a moment, that I do have tha ability to create a lucid, supportable conclusion from the ether. Chances are, someone beat me to it already right? So even though it was original to me, I can go look it up and find that someone had the same spark 50 years ago, and I am just another person who read it...

does that discount the fact that I did not need to read it to develop it?

It is a good thing that there are more geniuses out there today coming up with new and exciting ideas that no one has ever imagined. Or maybe all of the ideas were imagined and just never written down, and then they were eventually forgotten.

I think that is what happens to me. Maybe the new definition of a genius should be a person who has a great epiphany and has the presence of mind to have some method of capturing that idea to later refine it and eventually share it with the world.

But they would have to recognize that the thought is one of great potential. So that would make a genius a person that has a great epiphany, recognizes it, and has the presence of mind to have some method of captureing that idea to later refine it and eventually share it with the world.

And there are the other geniuses that recognize when a person is a genius and can capitalize on that which is to be shared with the world...

hopefully, one day with practice, I can be a genius - one type or another...

cos' I'm drinking milk...

... ... ...

whatever.

supposition is over. I think I will just continue to plagerize all of my ideas, and delude myself into thinking that I am smart.

go figure.

the only capacity that I have is not even really mine...

talk to Him...

He will tell you...