How to Think Like a Genius 34-Society
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/02/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How does society react to genius?
Rick Rosner: Society and culture to some extent have a limited tolerance for novelty. Society is conservative and genius is disruptive, and there has to be room for the great masses of people who aren’t innovators to a great extent. If every genius suddenly had a purpose or was brought up with the idea that they had to go into real estate, the real estate market would get really weird and a lot of regular people would get squeeze out by innovation and disruption. So, there are protective measures society has such as blatant disapproval, disbelief, to stereotypes about genius that act to isolate genius, to forces that kind of make geniuses isolate themselves.
A lot of geniusey pursuits are harmless to society and spin off genius ability without threatening society such as being great at chess. It would eat up a lot of smart people’s time without doing anything to society and without really helping geniuses much in general except as a recreation. Stereotypically, geniuses aren’t pictured as going after money. There’s that saying that if you’re so smart why aren’t you so rich which, doesn’t exactly apply.
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