These five characteristics that prove that you are indeed a genius

Solène Delinger 6:10 p.m., June 28, 2022

How do you know if you are a genius?

Is it a question of IQ, creativity or even madness?

To answer these questions that many French people call themselves, the psychologist José de Valverde and the psychiatrist Patrick Lemoine were the guests of 

 this Tuesday.

At the microphone of Europe 1, they decipher the personality of these people endowed with very particular qualities. 

Creative personalities

Creativity is essential for all geniuses, explains José de Valverde at the microphone of Mélanie Gomez and Julia Vignali.

But, it is not enough to have a creative potential.

“Once again, you have to accomplish it and there it is much more complicated”, underlines the psychologist specializing in high potential.

"Otherwise, we would obviously have plenty of people doing wonderful things."

Genius is an extremely complex cocktail of different factors that combine upstream and in the ordinate.

And that gives what we have been able to observe with the Einsteins, Marie Curie and so many others.

Anyway, we can consensually say that they are people who have the three characteristics of geniuses: exceptional aptitudes, a will to accomplish them and a desire to be recognized "by experts, by an environment that says ' yes, indeed it is new.

bad students

Genius is not about IQ.

Some geniuses are "very creative", but don't necessarily have an exceptional IQ.

"People who were not necessarily good students have nevertheless become great geniuses", underlines José de Valverde.

It is important to remember this because "we always tend to consider that geniuses are all prodigious".

However, many of them are bad students.

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People with bipolar disorder

People who belong to the Nobel Prize tribe are more often affected by bipolar disorder.

These are people who are genetically more intelligent.

"At the Nobel Prizes, among the great literary prizes, you are likely to be a genius if you are bipolar", explains in

the psychiatrist Patrick Lemoine. 

Brain communication pros

According to the psychiatrist, you have to "accept having moments of madness" to be brilliant.

"The genius is the one who makes his childish brain, his dreamer's brain, communicate very easily with his brain which allows you to put all this to music", he explains. 

Flexible intellectuals

A genius has the ability to look at things in a different, multidimensional way.

"Picasso is the perfect example of what this flexibility is, with its cubism".

But, flexibility cannot act without the other factors.

"It's like a cooking recipe," said José de Valverde.

"All these ingredients interact. Flexibility, but there is also perseverance, self-assessment. There are plenty of other factors, other ingredients that allow this flexibility to work well". 

The geniuses are able to sit on everything that has been done before so that there is a before and an after.

"There is a before Picasso, there is an after Picasso. There is a before Mandela and an after Mandela, and a before Martin Luther King", enumerates Patrick Lemoine.

"These are people who don't care what has been done before."