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I was watching this show once that was about so called "Genius Children" these kids were really smart they were like in college at the age of 11 and stuff like that. I found out in this show that when problem solving they bring online other parts of the brain that your everyday person dosen't bring online it's as if they've found a way to tap in to that other 90% of the brain that Einstein said we never used.

My question is, WHY?

Why do these kids have this ability and is there any way to develop it? And also while I'm thinking about it what is modeling?

Thank you for your valuable time

Hornet

I amur hoping someone has an answer for this one!!!

All kids are born genius for most part it is trained out of them. A research following genius kids (kids with IQ 140 +)in the early part of last century none went on to develop genius capacity that would be expected of a genius.

The one thing that kids have that is often trained out of them is an active imagination. Yet when you ask a genius what their most valuable tool is the tell you it's the ability to use their imagination.

Alex

Interesting... now I think about it does image-streaming switch online those parts of the brain that a genius uses?

These kids you see were monitered annd what was observed was that they brought online all these other parts of the brain while problem solving.

[This message has been edited by Hornet (edited November 04, 2002).]

I've noticed a pattern with myself and others, that we've started out very smart(IQ about 120-150) in grade school, and then by the time we're around 17 or 18 our IQ has dropped to the normal range (100-120).

When thinking of the cause for this, my mind flashes on the ubiquitous bumper sticker: "My kid beat up your honor student." Being smart is not often a trait that gains one social popularity, so not only do we learn to hide it, we learn to hate it and kill it.

Image streaming or versions of it has been used by inventors and thinkers to solve their problems. As Einstein had said... "A problem cannot be solved by the same level of mind that created it." We need to think in a different way. Image streaming pulls in more of the senses so yes... use the imagination.

Alex

[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited November 05, 2002).]

The philosophy that my wife and I used in raising our children is that our kids are born geniuses. Our job is to provide opportunities for them to realize and develop their genius capacities. Our job is to also run interference so that the school system does not "de-genius" them.

The work paid off. They all participated in programs for gifted, attended accelerated courses, and tested in the upper one percentile in many subject areas when compared similar aged students nationally.

I mention this because TV shows that show genius abilities in kids highlight the staggering genius that is our potential. If we can claim a fraction of that which some seem to exhibit naturally, then it is worth pursuing.

The course I wrote with Win Wenger "The Genius Code" can help anyone do that. It shows you how to bring the normally "off-line" resources into use. Check out the description of it on our website.

For your question on modeling...

Modeling is a methodology qhere you find a model excellent at performing a skill you want to acquire.

Then you find the patterns of thinking, perceiving and feeling of that person. Than you do the skill with those patterns and it is usually much easier to develop skills with the patterns of a good model.

It's one way of describing it.

Alex

This is a big question, in fact this may be the big quesiton. How do you draw the line between helping your children realize their full potential and "pushing" them so that they can do what you yourself did not? I hope this question was clear enough.

Read this article here, that came out Monday.
Wow. He's consider 'normal'.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/04/DD101275.DTL

"But it does make him a remarkable one, especially on paper. Growing up in Anaheim, Kit entered middle school at 6. He entered Los Alamitos High School, in Los Alamitos, at 7, and was ranked first in a class of 700 students.

He began university at 9, where his interests are music, mathematics and the sciences. He is fluent in English, Chinese and Russian. He says his current scientific research involves writing code for a computer program to use the patterns of pressure within leaves to create music. "