At an age when normal children sit in the sandbox, the most gifted manage to create symphonies, perform complex surgeries, and even receive a nomination for Nobel Prize!

8 Akrit Jaswal

This Indian boy became the youngest doctor in the world. At the age of five, he was already well versed in anatomy and read Shakespeare, and at the age of seven he had his first surgical operation! It was like this: the doctors at the local hospital noticed that the child was actively interested in medicine, and allowed him to observe the operations. Akrit read everything he could about the subject and convinced the professionals with his comments that he really understood surgery. When he was seven poor family asked him to operate on their daughter because they couldn't pay a real doctor. Everything went well.

He has the highest IQ among compatriots (146 points). Currently teenager Akrit is the youngest student at the medical university, is looking for a cure for cancer.

7 Pablo Picasso

Pablo began to draw before he learned to speak. According to the legend, he himself asked his father with gestures to put a brush in his hand and teach him the basics of drawing.

Although other school subjects were given to him with difficulty, he did not seem to have mastered the counting system until the end of his long life. By the age of 12, he so skillfully and realistically reproduced nature on canvas that he was already considered a mature artist with his own unique handwriting, at the same time reading in syllables and allowing numerous spelling mistakes when writing. But the teenager passed the exams at the School of Arts brilliantly in one day, although it usually took a whole month for novice artists. At the age of 16 he had his first exhibition, and at 20 he was world famous.

6. Howard Phillips Lovecraft

The forefather of all mystical literature, the creator of the story of Cthulhu, Lovecraft mastered reading at the age of two, and at six he was already writing complex, serious poetic works. A gloomy and sickly boy from childhood was carried away by creating his own frightening universe with terrible creatures inhabiting it.

He transferred the horrors to paper from his childhood dreams: yes, these are the boy's nightmares. In many ways, this was facilitated by the home environment.

His father was locked up in an insane asylum with a diagnosis of "irreversible mental changes caused by syphilis" when Howard was three years old. Mother, eternally depressed, frail and white as death woman, also ended her days in a mental hospital. Young Lovecraft was ill with all possible diseases and stayed in bed for a long time, listening to scary tales from the lips of his eccentric grandfather Whipple, the owner of the largest library in town. Howard from childhood was an amazingly enthusiastic person, interested not only in literature, but also in astronomy, history, and chemistry.

5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart)

Mozart is not only one of the greatest composers of all time, but also perhaps the most famous child prodigy in all of world history.

At the age of four he already played the piano virtuoso, and at five he wrote his first small pieces of music. At the age of eight, when ordinary children do not distinguish double bass from cello - if they even understand what these words mean - Mozart finished writing his first symphony.

4. Okita Soji

This Japanese prodigy is from a slightly different field than the above. He lived in the middle of the 19th century and did not have outstanding intellectual abilities. But no one could defeat him.

At the age of nine, when many children are not yet allowed to use table knives so as not to be cut, he perfectly mastered combat sabers and swords (boken, katana, shinai). At the age of 12, he easily defeated the famous swordsman. He officially became a recognized martial artist at the age of 18. Okita was one of the organizers of the famous military police Shinsengumi, the legends of which are popular in Japan to this day, embodied in comics, films and video games.

3. Kim Ung-yong

According to the Guinness Book of Records, Korean Kim Ung Yong is still considered the smartest living person and has the highest IQ - 210 points! Kim entered the physics department of the university when he was only three years old and graduated brilliantly at six. Later, being already a "mature" seven-year-old, he was invited to the USA to work at NASA. (Maybe NASA suspected that he was an alien and wanted to investigate him?) However, at 15, he already had a Ph.D. and incredible prospects.

True, having matured, Kim decided to return to his homeland in Korea and teach at the usual higher education. educational institution provincial town.

2. Gregory Smyth

Gregory Smith was born in 1990 in the USA and at the age of 2 he already knew how to read, and at 10 he began his first year at the university. It is clear that against the background of such phenomena as the Korean Kim Ung Yong, the achievements of the teenager Gregory look pale and can hardly surprise anyone.

So what is so special about the boy Gregory Smith that gives him the right to take pride of place in the list of outstanding geeks?

The fact is that, as research shows, most gifted kids are, to put it mildly, weird. They are either nerds or sociopaths or both. And Greg Smith is not like that! The boy realized that the niche of young politicians is still free, and founded a children's social movement"to achieve understanding among the children of the whole world." As the head of this worthy movement, the gifted fellow managed to have an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton, and then made an incendiary speech from the UN rostrum. On the crest of popularity, he was nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

1. William James Sidis

Some consider William Sidis the most smart person who ever lived on earth. His IQ level, according to the most conservative estimates, fluctuated between 250-300 points. For comparison: if your IQ is 136 points, you can safely classify yourself as a genius. Intelligence ordinary person with average abilities ranges from 85 to 115 points.

Born in the USA in 1898, the son of emigrants from Russia, Sidis learned to read at the age of one and a half, and by eight he had already written four books and owned a family foreign languages: Latin, Greek, Russian, Hebrew, French, German. And the seventh - Vendergood - the boy came up with himself on the basis of Greek, Latin and modern languages Romano-Germanic group. At the age of seven, he passed the Harvard Medical School exam in anatomy, and was not accepted to the university only because of his age. At age 11, his father secured admission to Harvard. William became a professor before he was 20 years old. Despite his amazing work in mathematics and cosmology, even parents began to doubt his adequacy after sexual adulthood he stated that he consciously accepted celibacy, that is, he refused relations with the opposite sex. William Sidis never died a virgin.

He led a reclusive life, moving from city to city and changing jobs to hide his genius from others.

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Smart children are not angels with impeccable behavior at all. They often do not “hear” their parents with their thoughts. They also write fiction and stories. Such a fantasy shocks parents and teachers: is the child a liar? Not at all. A rich imagination is a sign of high intelligence.

  • A gifted child is often bored in class. So he begins to entertain himself more interesting things. The goal of parents is to explain to the child the value of school education.

3. Talk fast

Gifted children usually choose one area of ​​expertise. Or they alternate interests: dinosaurs today, and planets in a month. Children can study their favorite subject for hours. But "uninteresting" disciplines are abandoned by little geniuses. If your child is a mathematician, then the Russian language may be neglected.

  • Terrible handwriting is another sign of a potential genius. The child writes quickly and sloppy because he does not keep up with the flight of his thoughts. And he does not recognize the rules imposed by the school.

5. They are social

It is generally accepted that smart children are unsociable nerds. However, there is such a thing as "social intelligence". You don't have to have 100-line formulas in your mind to be a genius. Social geniuses know how and love to build relationships with others. If your child can captivate friends new game and he is not alien to the concept of justice, then he is also gifted.

  • Scientists also distinguish emotional intelligence - the ability to manage their own and other people's emotions. Successful leaders, politicians and marketers grow up from such children.

6. Spend a lot of time with adults

The future genius will not miss the opportunity to chat with adults. Ordinary children in the company of adults feel constrained, and gifted ones relax. Often indigo children are friends with older guys. However, communication with peers is necessary even for child prodigies. Psychologists warn that smart kids can feel lonely.

7. Be active

Future geniuses are very active. These children begin to walk and talk earlier than their peers. Reading and writing are often learned on their own. It is believed that smart children hate sports, stay at home and read books. And this is a mistake: scientists say that smart children are restless and need movement. It is a way of knowing the world around.

8. Prone to activities that develop fine motor skills


Christian Friedrich Heineken from a small town in northern Germany went down in history as the most brilliant child ever born on earth. According to legend, he met with the king and was fluent in several languages, but was never able to celebrate his fifth birthday.

IQ test

If Christian had to take an IQ test today, his result would probably exceed 180. However, he was not autistic. Like a sponge, the baby absorbed knowledge from various areas not limited to one subject. He was not closed and communicated well with people, striking them with his conclusions and harmony of speech. By ten months (according to other sources - by two months), the baby did not gurgle like peers, but built articulate sentences.

By the year Christian was quoting the biblical Pentateuch by heart. By the age of two I learned world history and without hesitation listed the most important geographical discoveries.

He learned French, became interested in the "dead" language, mastered Latin. At the age of three he switched to mathematics and biology, then to religious studies. His favorite reading was the illustrated encyclopedia in Latin "The Sensual Picture of the World" by Jan Amos Kamensky, which the boy read until late at night. The little fidget liked to talk about the merits of Rhine wines or discuss the genealogy of the oldest Germanic surnames.

Christian Heineken was the second child, while his older brother lived to an advanced age and followed in the footsteps of his parents, linking his life with art. The child prodigy's parents were quite ordinary people. His father is an unknown architect and a mediocre artist, his mother sold art in her shop. The upbringing of the boy was entrusted first to the nanny-nurse - a tough and domineering woman who did not tolerate objections and believed that she knew exactly how to raise children correctly. Her teaching methodology on the principle of “what I see, I sing” is unlikely to have influenced the development of the amazing abilities of the baby.

Woe from Wit

The eyes of the students and professors of the Lübeck Gymnasium present widened as the three-year-old toddler climbed onto the pulpit.

The kid began his report with a biographical sketch of the Roman emperors and Israeli rulers, and then turned the topic towards unusual geography home country and features of the human skeleton.

The chains of facts were strikingly logical, while Christian skillfully “juggled” data from different fields of science.

Glory about unusual boy quickly spread around the district, so frequent guests of the house (mainly representatives of Bohemia) certainly wanted to see a miracle with my own eyes. Constant visits and "work" for the public greatly exhausted the child prodigy, but added authority and popularity to his parents.

According to the American psychologist Leta Stetter Hollingward, genius children are often simply emotionally unprepared to solve serious philosophical and ethical issues, and this leads to tragedies - from insanity to early death.

New sensation at court

The bored royal court was glad of the new fun - little boy, who without embarrassment answered the most stupid questions, and in harmony of thoughts surpassed many pundits.

The boy's popularity reached the court, and the parents hardly wanted to miss out. unique opportunity appear in high society.

fatal decision

At home, Christian's condition began to deteriorate rapidly. He hardly slept and ate poorly, constantly complained of body aches and headache, capricious, every hour asked him to wash and change clothes.

According to modern doctors, the boy could suffer from celiac disease associated with a digestive disorder and an allergy to the proteins found in cereal grains.

The court doctors recommended a diet that could save the boy's life: low-fat soups, sugar and beer. But the mother was so afraid of “upsetting” the nurse, who believed that the best and only food for her pupil was porridge, that she chose not to change anything. As before, visitors were not refused, and they entertained their curiosity at the bed of a dying child.

When the child's body was covered with edema, he almost stopped getting out of bed.

A few days before his death, the baby philosophically said in Latin: "Life is smoke."

For several weeks, “concerned” flocked from all the neighborhoods to last time look at the miracle child lying in the coffin, while the parents carefully wrote down the names of all the influential people who came to church.

Could the "baby from Lübeck" live a long and happy life? And who is to blame for his early death: conceited parents, the nurse and her views on the diet, nature, which endowed Christian with an excessive thirst for knowledge, which the child's body simply could not cope with? If he had been born in our time, then the tragedy would probably have been avoided, but history, as you know, does not tolerate the subjunctive mood.


IQ: 156

Childhood Achievement: In April 2009, Alice Roberts (born in London in 2007) became the youngest member of the Mensa High IQ Club ever. The girl was only 2 years and 4 months old. According to her parents, Alice loves to count in Spanish and can name most of the world's capitals.

9. Heidi Hankins

IQ: 159

Childhood Achievement: In 2012, 4-year-old Heidi Hankins (born 2008) also received an invitation from Mensa. Heidi lives in Winchester (England) and can't wait to go to school. However, there is no guarantee that her school success will be brilliant. The level of her IQ is one less than Einstein's, and he, as you know, was never the first student.

8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

IQ: 165 (estimated)

Childhood Achievements: Started writing music at the age of 5. He performed before many august persons of Europe. By the age of 17, he received a position as a court musician in Salzburg.

Childhood Achievements: Mathematical genius Theodore Kaczynski (born 1942) was accepted into Harvard University at age 16, graduating at age 20.

By the age of 26 he became a professor at prestigious university California at Berkeley. Today, Kaczynski's name is no longer associated with mathematics, but with his mail-bomb campaign, which earned him the nickname "Unabomber." On April 3, 1996, Teodor Kaczynski was arrested and sentenced to 4 life sentences. Mentioned in the movie Good Will Hunting.

Childhood achievements: Entered the top 100 best chess players on the planet (including both women and men) at the age of 13; became the youngest grandmaster in history, surpassing the achievement of Robert Fischer by one month.

Childhood achievements: At a very young age, Korean prodigy Kim Ung-Yong (born in 1963) got into the Guinness Book of Records for an IQ of 210. At the age of 4, he solved a difficult problem in one of the Japanese television programs. math problem. At the age of 5 he spoke four languages, at 8 - was invited by NASA to study at the University of Colorado.

Childhood Achievement: At age 8, Terence Tao (born 1975) entered the Johns Hopkins University Exceptional Talent Research Program and scored an incredible 760 in the math section. In 1986, at the age of 10, Tao became the youngest participant in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Childhood achievements: By the end of the first year of his life, William Sidis (1898 -1944) learned to write, at the age of 4 he read Homer in the original, at 6 he studied Aristotelian logic, by the age of 8 he mastered eight languages. Entered Harvard at 11 and graduated at 16.

The name of Sidis is often used as an example of the fact that geeks may not achieve great success in adulthood. As an adult, Sidis worked as a simple accountant, remained a bachelor and tried not to draw attention to himself. He died at the age of 46 from an intracerebral hemorrhage. After his death, several scientific works which he did not want to publish during his lifetime.

Childhood Achievements: Gregory Smith (born 1990) memorized entire books at age two and entered university at age 10. But Gregory's interests are not limited to science. He founded the International Youth Advocates movement and travels around the world advocating for children's rights. By the age of 16, Gregory was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

in India, his IQ is 146. boy with early childhood He was interested in medicine, from the age of five he was well versed in anatomy. He performed his first operation at the age of seven, restoring the mobility of the fingers of a neighbor girl - she could not open her fist after a severe burn, and her parents did not have enough money for a real doctor. As a teenager, Akrit entered medical University, becoming the youngest student in its history. Now the brilliant Indian is about 20 years old, and he directs his efforts to find a cure for cancer.

Akrit Yaswal: child surgeon

2. Pablo Picasso: draw before talking.

The most famous artist of the last century, the founder of cubism, Pablo Picasso began to draw almost in infancy, even before he learned to speak. Already at the age of 12, he was considered an accomplished master with an individual style. He passed the art school exams in one day, while the rest of the applicants needed a month to complete this work. The first exhibition of the young Picasso took place when he was 16 years old, and by the age of 20 he had already won worldwide fame. During his life he created more than 20 thousand works. His paintings are valued at tens of millions of dollars each. But with all his achievements in the artistic field, Pablo for a long time experienced difficulties with learning: reading and writing and counting did not want to be given to such a creative person.

Picasso

3. Okita Souji: Invincible child.

Okita Soji lived in 19th-century Japan and was not very intelligent or creative. His genius was different - by the age of 12 he became an invincible swordsman, having perfectly mastered several types of edged weapons. He was officially recognized as a martial artist at the age of 18. This legendary young man is one of the founders of the Shinsengumi military police, the stories about which Japanese cinema and comic book creators still pay attention to.

Okita

4. Kim Ung Yong: a genius from Korea

Korean Kim Ung Yong, born in 1962, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the smartest person alive today - his IQ is 210 points. At the age of three, he entered the university at the Faculty of Physics and graduated at six. When he was seven years old, he was invited to America to work for NASA. By the age of 15, the young man received a doctorate in science from the University of Colorado. At 16 he returned to South Korea, where he defended another doctoral thesis related to civil engineering and construction. After that, he refused the offer of cooperation with best university countries, preferring to work at a university in a small town, where he still works.

Kim Yong

5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: four-year-old pianist

One of the greatest composers in history has been immersed in music since early childhood. By the age of four, he had mastered the piano to perfection. At five he wrote musical plays, and at eight he created his first symphony. He claimed that the melodies themselves come to him, they only need to be refined a little.

Mozart

6. Gregory Smith: The youngest politician.

Gregory Smith, unlike most geeks, has no problem communicating with anyone. Entering university at age 10 to study exact sciences, Gregory organized an international movement that should be dedicated to achieving understanding between the children of the whole world. As its head, he spoke with Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton, and also delivered a speech at a meeting of the UN Council. From the age of 12, he was nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now the young man is 23 years old, and his career is clearly just beginning.

7. William James Sidis: the greatest genius in history.

He is considered the most intelligent person who ever lived on our planet. His level of intellectual development is estimated at about 250-300 points (despite the fact that the maximum value that can be scored on modern tests is 180 points). William was born in the United States in 1898 to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He learned to read at the age of one and a half, by eight he mastered seven foreign languages ​​​​(more precisely, six - he invented the seventh himself) and wrote four books. At seven he passed his exams at Harvard medical school, but due to his age, he was accepted there only four years later after numerous demands from his father. Sidis received his professorship before his twentieth birthday. In his life he mastered more than forty languages, wrote a number of outstanding works on mathematics and cosmology.

But genius weighed on him. William led a reclusive life, avoided communication with the opposite sex and the press, worked in ordinary positions, changing jobs as soon as people around him began to suspect his abilities.