Dear AA,
YES please though it (genius) is largely seen or defined as innate. You can (learn to) become a genius at doing things or even at learning new things.
You can also lose it (your genius) via academic/intellectual laziness, drug addiction, mental disorder etc but regain it by re-learning.
JE
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 03:46:57 PM GMT+1, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Is being a genius something that is learnt?
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On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 11:18 AM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote: Becoming a Genius by Adopting the Adepoju/Falola Paradigm of Human Development
Proposed Paid Online Seminar
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Compcros Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge
Do you want to become a genius?
Do you want to be so good at something your achievements seem miraculous, possibly contributing in strategic ways to humanity, your name resounding deep into the future?
You can if you learn how and are able to commit yourself to the discipline involved.
I am planning a paid online seminar on this subject, using as a springboard the achievements of Toyin Falola, a US based Nigerian scholar, remarkable and perhaps historically unique for the multifaceted originality, consistency and volume of his scholarly initiatives.
Rather than use the conventional examples of such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein, common in discussions of genius but far from the realities of many, I am using the example of a living person whose tracks of action can be readily mapped and adapted to use by anyone, scholars, writers or people in any area of endeavour.
The seminar will discuss kinds of genius and situate Falola's productivity within a particular kind of genius. It will explain why this kind of genius is eminently adaptable to reworking within the peculiarities of various people. The seminar will explain why this form of genius needs to be understood as a practical ideal people should be informed about and guided to employ in developing themselves through individual use as well as in group learning systems. The seminar will demonstrate how understanding this mode of genius is vital for moving perception of genius from its current elitist elevation to a sensitivity to the unique creativity inherent in every person.
Seminar participants will be guided in techniques of self knowledge and of one's environment central to the development of the kind of genius in question.
This initiative is inspired by a Facebook post by historian Moses Ochonu arguing for the relative possibility of certain kinds of achievement, and declaring, among other names, that a scholar and writer like Toyin Falola comes along only once in a generation.
That post motivated me to explore the distinctive character of Toyin Falola's kind of genius.
All who adapt the paradigm demonstrated by Falola's efforts might not reach his scope of achievement in their various fields of endeavour, but they could go very far in self development and development of others, much more than if they simply viewed such colossal achievement purely from the distance of mysterious awe.
I have been studying Falola's work since 2018 and recently opened a website, Matrixes : Falola, to archive my research on his work, published both in the scholarly journal Yoruba Studies Review and in various online platforms. The website complements the Facebook page, Exploring Toyin Falola,
I use in organizing my writings and those of others on his work and the Exploring Toyin Falola blog dedicated to my Falola research.
The website link at "Who is Toyin Falola?" and the Facebook essays "Toyin Falola and the Caravan of Thought : African History on a Global Stage in a Multifaceted Lens: An Exploratory Framework" Parts 1 and 2 provide my overview of his creative trajectory. My video Life Rhythms: El Anatsui and Richard Serra gives shape to these ideas in relation to philosophical values emerging from the work of sculptors and installation artists El Anatsui and Richard Serra.
All interested people may contact me through this email address.
Toyin Falola is not informed about this initiative in the name of the independence of the idea.
I am tentatively using the name the Adepoju/Falola Paradigm of Human Development because, I, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, are developing the ideas using Toyin Falola's achievements as an inspirational and organizational centre. I am not yet sure about the implications of this manner of using the scholar's name without his permission but will examine that issue going forward.
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