Accidental Genus

In this video we met a savant. A savant is a person whose mental abilities would be remarkable even in a normal person, and these people often have a staggering mental disability such as retardation, or extreme lack of social skills. We met a artist who had a hemorrhage in his brain which although it didn’t kill him, didn’t affect him too badly expect for one thing: he become a skilled artist, who has a obsession with painting. His wife left him, and he went on drawing, although at point he became scared and sent out a message for help. A neuroscientist in Harvard answered, and she had a very special connection with this man. She had a similar accident which caused her to develop a similar condition in the terms of mania but instead of drawing, she felt a obsessive compulsion to write what happened to her, she wrote everything on everything.  We also met another artist with very good drawing skills, who happened to be a calendar drawer, but his origins were different, instead he was born with his unique talent due to a tester tone overload before he was born, while he was still in the womb. This video demonstrated that genus isn’t always made or created on purpose but can come from surprising sources.