The Smartest Person Ever Is Not Who You Think
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I thought Aaron (Thoughty 2 was the smartest person ever 🙆🏾♂️)
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@@mundea *Arran, but yes he is quite knowledgeable :)
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been watching for years so im the cleverest hahaha! love kay uk x
I talked with Da Vinci in Assassin's Creed, he appeared to be reasonably smart yes.
@lygophile thx
He also didn't seem to be too happy in the Borgia's employ either. Yeah, I know him too. He made me some climbing gloves that shoot knives at people. Pretty cool dude.
Lmao
Lol
Da Vinky 😳
The most intelligent human in history, by sheer statistical probability, was probably never educated, nor properly recognized.
What a stupid argument. It definitely isnt you at least 😂
(Jking)
yeah, some person in china or india that lived a thousand years ago
@@TravelBandit How come? Jersey Devil is probably right. He was talking about intelligence aka iq, you don't learn that, you are born with it or not. Statistically, there probably were some poor people with +300iq who ended up as slaves to the rice fields... Or some monk, who didn't care about sharing his brilliance with others (zen masters). But yeah you are right, it's definitely not you since you can't think back in history...
Intelligence is not fully innate. It can be developed. It's not that there is some wunderkund lost in time that could trump all of the educated scientists and workers in history. The only way to get better is through hard work put into your field of interest. Those are the people who achieve things, not a wunderkund who "just knows things."
They might not have even been born yet.
Da Vinci is the literal embodiement of 'You wouldn't get it'
Haha! On point!
Darwin is the most influential genius ever. Da Vinci mostly just screwed around with great ideas.
@@nerdstark9002 The question wasn't "who had the biggest impact". Darwin was no doubt a brilliant thinker and dedicated biologist who had a mindblowing impact on our understanding of the natural world. But he got there through huge advantages (being classically educated/from a wealthy background), but mainly worked incredibly hard by closely studying and observing species he kept and studied at home, and by going on expeditions and seeing the natural world for himself, challenging the thinking of the day.
But as Thoughty-2 said, Da Vinci was hundreds of years ahead of his time in terms of his engineering understanding and inventions, things which took incredible spacial awareness and understanding of physics - while also being one of the most talented painters of all time, and his understanding of human anatomy being so advanced that things he learned are only now being proven to be true! That's incredible, especially when you consider the lowly birth and lack of formal education he had. That certainly deserves the title of being a genius, he did far more than "screwed around with great ideas". How arrogantly dismissive.
Which is what I think when I look at that helicopter.
@@nerdstark9002 how was he more influential than Newton or Maxwell or Einstein?
It is important not to confuse “genius” for simply “well-educated”. Leonardo was a genius.
Being a polymath and understanding the information he was given and how to make use of it in practice is how he was so far ahead of anyone else, still to date!
Genius is the exact opposite of well-educated. Education leads to conformity and obedience.
@@mikemondano3624 not necessarily
While that is true, that doesn't apply here. Having taught himself those languages at such an age.
Let’s not forget Sir Issac Newton!
My grandmother used to say I was the smartest and most handsome boy who ever lived. Take that Davinci!
Yeah.
I’m not sure but you and I might be related. My grandma said the same thing to me. I am guessing she never realized that the two of us would never meet and catch her feeding us the same line
Hell yeah! Gottem!
@@uniqueone2731 lol funny how you're meant to be the "unique one"
@@davidadegoke lol I tried to tell him
I clicked on this video to see who was the smartest person but all of a sudden I started worrying about hair loss in my 20's
if happens become a cue ball
Now that's a pretty smart comment
@@_You_Are_Not_Him_ Mind size : Mega
lol ikr... does anyone know if keeps actually works tho?👀
shave your head and embrace it. I have.
I couldn’t agree more. Painter, sculptor, scientist, mathematician, musician, dancer, conversationalist, and who knows what else. I’m so glad you chose him as the most intelligent. No-one deserves it more.
I do
I bet like Ben Franklin he had quite a hunger for the ladies too.
@@Mz3P1c no me me. I made bitcoin
@@robertjones1730 I think Da vinci was gay.
@@ArathyA1 please no, dont start with that
I read a book called Art and Physics in the 90's. This book did a great job of uniting these two seemingly disparate concepts. At the end of this rather long book it espoused the singularity of Leonardo DaVinci as proof of a man that can bring these two vastly different fields together. He was equally a great scientist and great artist, the likes of which we may never see again.
Growing up my mom said I was the smartest person ever. Are you calling my mom a liar sir?
amazing😂😂😂
I would like your comment but its at 69 likes
at least it's a smart comment.
@David Fullagar 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Leonardo puts the saying, "Jack of all trades is a master of none" to shame. This man perfected his approach to every field he touched
The student have now become the master...
People often don't know the second part of the saying.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Often times better than master of one.
Elon puts this saying to shame as well
More like Jack of all trades, master of... Pretty much all of them
If Leonardo DaVinci were alive today I'd love to see him wrestling mma fighters into submission in the octagon
Imagine if we could bring Leonardo back and show him everything we have now. I think that while he'd be impressed, he'd also be simultaneously disappointed that flight wasn't achieved much sooner.
"It took you 400 years lol"
If Da Vinci came back to life, he'd be off finding new discoveries for the problems that humanity is faced with right now. He couldn't care less about satisfying his ego, I'm sure.
@@randolphpinkle4482 What?
@@randolphpinkle4482 yeah we would all be in flying cars with climate change solved
show him tiktok and he'd be crawling back to his grave faster than a proton who forgot about his boiled eggs
I've always loved the horsepower analogy regarding IQ in humans. The car with the most raw horsepower isn't always the car fastest around the track; especially considering the track in question. It will best other cars in a straight line but that's basically the only assurance.
IQ is similar in a way. It's a solid measurement of one's raw brain computation (horsepower), but the application of that horsepower varies greatly depending on the subject/task/problem at hand.
Genius manifests in many ways. IQ is only one of many metrics that can determine that potential.
An IQ test is really only useful to determine if someone is legally retarded or not. Anything above 80 doesn’t really mean anything especially how intelligent anyone is. The persons age also has a lot to do with it.
For what it’s worth, when I was in 7th grade (12), the school I attended wanted to make sure I wasn’t retarded and scheduled an IQ test with the state (extremely well funded school). It took an entire school week (around 40 hours total). Turns out that in 7th grade the state of Illinois determined my IQ was 142. Yet, I was failing 9 classes and couldn’t learn Spanish to save my life. Although those numbers really don’t mean anything (other than I wasn’t legally retarded and there was no excuse to be failing classes) at 34 years old, I’ve always been curious to see what my score would be now. Just for fun. IQ isn’t really a solid way to measure anything other than if someone is capable of comprehending basic reality enough to be a society-contributing adult.
Having said what I did, I sincerely wouldn’t put too much faith in IQ testing more than equating it to a parlor trick to annoy your friends.
I'd rather have Torque.
@@ryanwilson5936 I think you would probably be around 108
@@ryanwilson5936 The mere fact that you came to that conclusion without actually doing a thing to prove it shows your conclusion is worthless.
You, all by yourself, with not even the ATTEMPT to test it on yourself by retesting and seeing if your score varies by any huge margin (barring improvements in testing over the years and the known slight variation norms) just "knows" that IQ tests are useless... but all of science doesn't.
Brilliant.
@@Fedreal_Bureau_Of_Investigaton
Might as well be 810. It doesn’t matter.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it." - Leonardo da Vinci probably
You must be born in the early 80s 🤣
I just wrote something similar
Aaahhh!! Good ol Marty McFly.. gotta watch that movie again!
That would be the 50's.
Yep.. "Enchantment under the sea" dance. November 12, 1955. I miss those days...
Weird to think that DaVinci’s notes probably wouldn’t have been saved if he wasn’t a famous artist
Imagine all the potential geniuses who die unremembered XD.
At the time only famous people had cloud storage.
3 inches is is plenty I agree
@@fernandobernardo6324 LMAO true
Can you imagine the way the world would’ve progressed without his notes? So much knowledge, at least he did achieve some fame before his death. Like so many that don’t.
Nailed it with Da Vinci. I feel like any other answer would have been wrong.
Ambidextrous person who can right normally with the right and mirrorscript with the left reporting. In my case, I have never bothered to train myself , in fact it just turned out that I just spontaneously started writing mirrorscript whenever I picked up the pencil with the left hand. My mom reports i could write both ways right from the beginning, around when I was 2 or so. It's like Harry Potter speaking Parseltongue. It just automatically happens if I try to write with my left hand. Any language which I can write with my right, even if you freshly teach me one right now, just gets automatically laterally inverted by my brain when I attempt it with my left hand. I can also write properly with my left hand when I am consciously intending to. The only reason I write mirrorscript is to impress people because it's fucking cool to be able to do something so unique without even trying, and at times to make sure no one doesn't bother to read my emotional written down rantings. But I do that only when I myself don't want to read them, because even though I can write mirrorscript correctly and easily without a mirror , I can't read what I myself just wrote that way without one.
I am Right handy, once I thought to start writing with my left hand and when I tried I was writing inverted letters, I thought that is obviously mistake so I started trying to write normally by my left hand and that resulted in me not able to write either inverted or normal letters perfectly by my left hand.
K buddy, ure smart. Dont need to justify tht
The fun thing with Da Vinci is that he *was* a painter to the core : most of the things he learned were in order to further his art.
… Now that’s badass.
The only reason he even studied those Cadaver's were because he wanted to correctly depict a human being's proportions in his paintings. The dude goes 110% on everything.
@@iskeptical5698 I don't think it does but he was probably like "well I've already started on this body, may as well keep going🤷♂️"
@@iskeptical5698 Human interest. Probably thought "while I'm venturing this endeavor might as well find out human anatomy while I'm at it". Just simply curious and applied himself to everything that caught his attention and pretty much sums up every genius or great discovery known to man "Curiosity". He was no shut in either and knew people and kept safe during all of those time so yeah he was all alone and the world was at his mercy and people back then just didn't pay attention like now. There's a person out there not using his 100% just coz he couldn't since the world right now has its standards and be at the right place at the right time at the right circumstances and that's just the world's RNG system "Random Number Generator aka RNGeesus".
@@iskeptical5698 for art that isn't a portrait? Lol.
@@JustSomeDude848 Exactly. We Hoomans have been doing that since forever and it all started when hoomans started manipulating its surroundings to bend to their will. From banging rocks to going to the moon to satellites that gives our phones signal and connecting everyone in the world. From using plants as herbs to BigPharma. From a simple cart to a freight train. From funny pictures in caves to the internet. Just plain ol hooman curiosity and being the clever monkeys we are we grow exponentially and if you think about it its pretty beautiful how mad we are with our pursuit to being close to godlike super powers and everyone wants to be a god "Everyone".
It went from "the smartest human" to "2 out of 3 guy's experience baldness". I'm not even halfway in!
Ahahaha I was confused at that moment realized he is promoting something 😆😆😆
It's an AD... smh
If the ad supports Thoughty2 making these videos I'm all for it.
Sellout!
@@aceyboy Nah :)
HAHA!!! When you announced that you were reading off a list of the Greatest Geniuses in History, the 1st one I thought of, and was SURE would be on there was da Vinci!
Now, before I listen to the rest of your show, I know his genius was estimated at 220. Maybe more?
I started studying da Vinci at 11. How I found him, or what began my fascination with his genius was when my 6th grade teacher told my class to write a book report.
I had no idea? So, I went to the library, closed my eyes tight, and raised my arm, and fingertips as high as they could reach. Feeling a spine, my hand landed on one book, which I then, pulled down from the shelf.
I was shocked and in awe, that I had pulled down by chance, the biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
Opening what would be an Aladdin treasure chest to my senses, my eyes, read as one starving 30 days on, would devour food, relishing the knowledge newly discovered.
This man, held every important title possible on more subjects than any human in history, and spearheaded inventions that would have catapulted humankind from the 15th century to the 21st.
I found myself attempting, at every chance, to tell everyone in earshot of the Greatest Genius, to my eyes, that had ever lived
Ever since, that notion of unearthly, intrinsic brilliance, had never been effaced from my soul.
On top of all that amazing stuff da Vinci achieved, some historians also believe he had ADHD; myself included. As someone who both struggles with and simultaneously appreciates many aspects of my ADHD, I found a lot of his personal thoughts that he wrote in his diaries - as well as his often shifting but intensely focused/dedicated attention to so many diverse disciplines - EXTREMELY familiar. I don’t want to Psychoanalyse someone who’s been dead for hundreds of years, but reading his anxieties and struggles that hit so close to home made me really consider the possibility.
I got adhd and u r correct
I have adhd too, and ocd. And safe to say the kind that creates the hyperactivity in such people as Leonardo.
I have close to a hundred journals filled with stories, books, shit art, theories & hypotheses technically, lists, mathematical equations, proofing & conjectures, and so on.
Difference between me and him though, is he has alien genius to his intelligence, whereas I’m lucky to be at highly intelligent 😅
I personally think he had some difference in his brain - whether by nature or by building connections while young, that allowed him to fully use both the right and left sides of his brain in a unique way. His being ambidextrous, the mirrored writing, the exceptional spacial awareness shown in his map-making etc all point to a left/right hemisphere difference that produced a uniquely exceptional mind.
maybe ADHD back then was simililar in nature to now, in that most people who SAY they have ADHD are just attention seekers who wish they were in some way unique, instead of the insufferable bores they reveal themselves to be by insisting we all know about their 'condition/disability/malady/curse' unlike Da Vinci, who probably never felt the need to point out his obvious peculiarities.
comparing yourself to Da Vinci lol 😂 i'm curious, how many times today have you mentioned "your" adhd? whatever number you reply with (i doubt you'll reply with much more than a "😂 okay whatever buddy haha") is a lie. we will know, and you will know.
highly intelligent or insufferable bore? lol @@kerrywhitesstrangeworld9059 i'm suspicious about your ocd and adhd claims lol you fkrs (people who wish they were unique in some way, any way, GOD I WISH I WAS UNIQUE") are like vegans, can't even enter a room with strangers in it without declaring it "hey. hey! HEY!! OCD and ADHD over here, treat me accordingly!!!" lol you're right, i didn't have to comment, but i felt compelled to allow you the opportunity to say "hey fuck you man, you don't know me, or my massive struggle at being a human being in todays society, with my insurmountable issues with energy and preference for order!" i just described the entire human race. fuck off
I used to think I was smart, but then I realized I was just good at memorizing information.
me too man
That's the case for most of us in this, so called, era of "knowledge".
Such diverse attributes: Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom.
I'm very good at weighing probability....Which....Makes me good at taking tests. I'm not going to say that I'm not smart....Just not as smart as my test scores would indicate.
I too feel that way. there's a difference between knowing a thing, and understanding a thing. I know quite a bit, I understand very little.
Leonardo be like
other people: "what's that?"
Leonardo: " a robot"
other people: "what's a robot?"
Leonardo: "you'll get it in about 500 years"
Nice one bro
Thought Marco Polo made the first robot.
@@DJWESG1 itttsss caallleddd aaa jokee
@@hisham5702 that's what she said..
@@DJWESG1 you make 0 sense my guy
Brilliant reporting and analysis, and I am agreement with you.
You made no mention of Da Vinci as a sculptor, and though this may be the least developed of his media, it should not be ignored.
Been watching you're channel for a good few month now. And just want to say your choice of topics have been eye opening and educational. Also your presentation of them makes it all the more enjoyable so I just want to say
"THANK YOU" and keep up the good work.
Another thing about Da Vinci is that his painting technique for the mona lisa was so complex that no one has been able to accurately reproduce it. Not only were his ideas just insane for his time, but his painting was also and still is revolutionary.
Michelangelo > Da Vinci as a PURE artist.
As an overall genius Da Vinci for sure.
Fun fact the Mona Lisa although impressive isn’t his best work nor is it the technique the hardest to master and also it’s been replicated in numerous works. It’s considered the best because he said so. Man was the greatest troll ever.
@@emandevoshan4727 true and people are still falling for it
da vinci and michaelangelo both didn't prefer painting to their other hobbies but ended up being considered the two best technically gifted painters ever.
Paint by Numbers - Solved
Only if IQ was measured by how good a mustache looked.
To go all the way, maybe a beard too?
Mumbo Jumbo would have 99999 iq.
If only*
hitle
Then my equivalent IQ would be 1 because my beard can only grow a cm
I remember learning about da Vinci in one of my homeschool classes. I had a feeling this was going to be about him. He truly was way ahead of his time.
Sir all your videos are so inspirational and the way you just explain things is so well I can't even think of a word because it's just that good you're going to do great things you are doing great things.. keep the inspiration alive my friend
When translated from the ancient, mirrored Italian, his description of his tank read: "When this baby gets up to 88 miles per hour, you're gong to see some serious shit"
Underrated comment.
You lie! Italy uses metric!
@@emilandreasson9670 Lost in translation... Metric didn't hit Florence for nearly 300 years. In 16th century Florence Leo would have been measuring in Braccio's, which are about: (394mm = 1 Braccio)
Saying "When this bambino hits 357 Braccio's per hour...." does not have quite the same ring to it.
Except that they didn't use hours as we know it either. Back then the day was divided into four 6-hour blocks. I could do the math, except, this comment is already too long :)
Funniest comment 😂😂😂
@@agalah408 woosh
If Leo took an IQ test today, I think he'd ask, "Aren't there a few questions missing?"
Well put lol
This comment had 42 likes when I read it 👍
Whose Leo
@@alokrip9226 yours
@@philbofa what?
Ben Franklin should be on that list. Printer, publisher, writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, spy, forger and political philosopher.
9:18 Da Vinci was my pick for the smartest person ever. He was a mathematician, scientist, philosopher, engineer… bro just loved learning. It’s like I’m always finding out about something new that he may have invented or discovered. I recently heard he had a highly functional understanding of gravity and he probably invented the ball bearing. Like wtf?
"I have offended both God and Mankind as my work did not reach quality it should have"- Leonardo Da Vinci during his death.
Wow. He said that?! Amazing.
How do you know he said? That who wrote it and when did he die and how did he?
He also said "SImplicity is the ultimate sophistication" I think
Ive heard he said “Some men are not of more use than as a machine used for turning food into shit”
Looking at you Olwydd
Noooo Leonardo we love you!!! :(
“The smartest person ever is not who you think”
My thought went straight to DaVinci but I’ve been a super nerd since forever and I knew a lot about his work. DaVinci was mind blowingly creative. And Albert Einstein said “imagination is more important than knowledge” I do believe DaVinci had both.
TheLastScampi True for a nerd but a super nerd knows there’s always a possibility that there’s more to learn!
There is a flaw in E=mc^2
The smartest person ever was probably from sub-saharan Africa. Genetic series are used as an indicator to predict the probability of genius within a group. Orangutans have 3 genetic series, apes have 4, chimpanzees have 5, every human race has 6 with the exception of sub Saharan Africans with 9. The genetic diversity in 1billion Africans is more than the rest of the world combined. E.g the tallest people are the Dinka tribe from South Sudan and the shortest are the Pygmies from DRC. West African decent like Jamaicans are the fastest etc. Nigerians are the most educated immigrants in the US and they have the highest education attainment rate, outperming all other groups, according to the US Bureau of statistics. In terms of genius and intelligence, that extreme is likely to be found in sub-saharan Africa.
He probably stuck to paintings as no one knew what he was talking about and thought he was thinking of the impossible.
of all your episodes this one is exceptional. Thank you for all your effort
DaVinci genius was actually endless curiosity...the most curious person who ever lived
Nobody is more curious than my cat, and she hasn't invented anything.
MAGNUM-TV Be careful, it might kill the cat
@@magnum-tv1441 Also don't forget to close that box of poison that could or could not leak and kill your cat~!
People just despise immutable traits such as innate talent, they'd rather believe that they can have the same capability if they try enough, just a figment even though they may not be willing.
300 IQ but didn't contribute anything, just like most of us. This guy is strangely relatable.
It was possibly soul crushing knowing he will never be able to relate to any of his peers, contrary to popular belief, being in your early 10's without a childhood and in a university, is not fun.
I find the standardised IQ test heavily flawed and should be abolished completely. It can not possibly be very accurate. A new method must be created to get more accurate measurement of intelligence.
@@ivanchu8415
I mean, my IQ is just 120-130 but I can't relate to anyone around me as is. Cannot even fathom how he must have felt.
@@Delimon007 At least you are not full of yourself, so that's alright.
@@Delimon007 to my opinion, the IQ test merely shows the individual's ability to recognize, memorize, predict patterns well. They don't necessarily define the whole of the individual however they are good data nontheless, it is sad to see that a percentage of people would never get approved simply by born into a number, but then again you don't want someone holding the trigger when they don't recognize that it can kill.
Your content is always so good! I find myself laughing multiple times in each of your videos. Cheers!
I know I'm late to the party but I very much enjoyed this video @Thoughty2! It was really well done and I learned a lot. I was always under the impression that Einstein was the smartest ever and I learned a lot about DaVinci and others on that list including another great video of yours on Bobby Fischer! Neat to see just how far ahead of these "brilliant" people were many many years AFTER DaVinci. Again, Thank you for making it. 🙏
that's a cool user pic where's that from
@@Fedreal_Bureau_Of_Investigaton Me? Just a silhouette of me in my hat & hoodie a long time ago. You're the first to ever bring it up! Glad you like it! Thanks!
"Hey, 42 here"
Its getting harder and harder to tell the difference
Foughty too hear
When will these comments stop
Thank you!
@@joeldeakin2003 literally never. I make it my mission.
Da Vinci is the smartest *recorded* human, who knows what has been lost, there could have been someone greater yet still unrecognized
I saw someone else say it, the probable most smart person to ever live most likely lived a thousand years ago, had no education and worked as a farmhand until death.
He was just one of the most iconic. And we really dont know if it was actually his knowledge or someone's knowledge he bought/stole.. In those times and now the rich mainly are the one's writing history (his-story) books.
@@sythesz The smartest person ever was alive 100,000 years ago and got stoned to death for sounding like a crazy person
@@surelock3221 seems legit
Guys don't you know who ramanuchan is dude he is so unrecognized he wrote two whole books of his theories which he couldn't explain as he died the ones which he solved was out of the world for any mathematical genius there he didn't even go to school
Called da vinci as soon as I clicked on the video.
I would personally agree, reading about him is just unbelievable. Just constant disbelief at how ahead of humanity he was
I also think "emotional intelligence" is often highly under estimated and is often more impactful than what society generally considers "general intelligence" via an IQ score. Being able to read people / decider the meanings of patterns is a type of "intelligence" that is really impossible to measure as it's sourced via introverted- intuition ( plus the answers often don't come right away but with a bit of reflection) Also "IQ test" are TIMED and some people simple don't function well being timed, this doesn't necessarily mean they aren't "intelligent".
It was a blessing in disguise that it took so long for DaVinci's Codex to be found and studied. Back in his time he may have been deemed a heretic and executed before he could finish it. I have to agree, he was probably the most brilliant human being ever to have lived, and undoubtedly way ahead of his time.
@Studious Emma Are you a
"Grammar Nazi?"
@@catherineoneal1030 We are changing that particular locution to Grammar Trump.
George Washington is easily the greatest man that’s ever lived
He wasn't human. Well Homo sapiens at least.
He was a robot from another dimensión xD
The smarter you become the more you realise you know very little at all.
Ooga booga
-Oog
@@tamoo6028 I concur
It’s the worst
@@genny1814 nice flex 😂
Rob Myers I’ve heard that same belief. That the smartest don’t focus on what they know, but seek answers to what they don’t. (Along those lines).
16:08 - ''Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.''
Talented people can do things that other people can do, just better than they can do it. You have people who play football, then you have talented footballers. Anyone can bang piano keys, but talented piano players create/recite beautiful music. Geniuses, however, do shit no one has thought or been able to do. Einstein, for example and his equation for special relativity. Someone else probably came up with the concept, but no one was able to come up with the correct theory the way he did. Einstein thought of it in a way no one was able to and then simplified it so that anyone could understand it and prove it.
If the Mona Lisa was not attached to the name Da Vinci, it would be missed by ninety percent of experts in visual arts in a gallery.
I’ve always consider Leonado da Vinci the ultimate ”genius” after visiting an exhibition in the 80’s about his life and work.
And just as he, coming from a simple back ground, I sometimes wonder how many individuals we as humanity loses out on because children all over the world are held back at schools (or even missing out of it)?
What if we really as a world community saw to and guaranteed all children a proper education for them? I think we would be farther ahead as humanity and as a species too.
His background wasn't all that humble.
His father was pretty wealthy and even though Leonardo was born out of wedlock, he was still taken in and financially supported by his father.
Well, you know that will never happen. How can you control intelligent, well educated folks with polarizing fear and in-fighting like you see in many places today? I'm with you in the hope, I just don't see it happening due to the above and the fact that most modern society is far too indulgent to actually sacrifice anything to make a big change. Most folks are afraid to lose anything or face hardship willingly for change, which means things will be very hard to change as the majority will not take action without a strong impetus.
I dunno .... drop a sheet of paper and watch its flight . The resistance to air alters as it zig zags toward the ground in an uncontrolled fashion . Do you consider it a pain in the arse or something to dwell over ? . Do you seek and find merit in working out the invisible forces that contort the paper on its trajectory ? . Do you consider the nature of paper and its woven construction , its edges , the shape of the paper , the weight ? . Do you see worth in pressing forward with what it gives that seems without value ? ...... well its absolutely pointless in 2020 to seek to create a finite understanding but in 1475 to scribe for prosperity would demonstrate genius given it was most likely considered by others but not memorialised . get to be the first = genius . I came up with the concept of propulsion in a unique and i8nteresting form whilst doing a course . Penned it and presented to be told the jet engine had already been done .... bollocks .... now if a simple lad from a fuck awful council estate can create this then we all have a degree of genius in us .... but not timing .
I remember reading somewhere that there are an estimated million+ children in Indian slums with an IQ over 125. Crazy to think who we might have missed out on due to poverty
@@SilvesterBathroomStallone In a book about Leonardo Da Vinci, they described him as: "A bastard in a golden age for bastards." He could not pursue the family work of being a notary. He definitely didn't have it easy but not nearly as hard as it could have been either.
Who else was here when the dude had no mustache?🙋♂️
yes, I vaguely remember... It was before humans decided to record their history.
We knew him when he was just a clean shaven lad.
Back in the good old days when he was making RIF. I am still hopping that he will bring that back :(
@ValorHd Do you mean when his face was not colonised?
Leave it at 42 likes. Lol
When you first presented your list of geniuses, I wondered, "Why didn't he mention Leo?" Then you started gushing about him, and he deserved gushing. To me, his intelligence was genius; his art was outstanding; his inventions were miracles of engineering; he spent a lot of time drawing water flow, for no other reason besides just wanting to know; and yes, he was considered very good looking. His interests were highly varied, and he excelled at all of them. But the most important to me was his ability "To know how to see;" to see things others cannot see; to know things other people never even think about; to have brand new ideas, the likes of which had never been considered before. Newton said he stood "on the shoulders of giants." Leonardo was a giant.
The problem is, true geniuses are not perceived to be that smart because no one can see or understand the things that they can, they’re only perceived that way until we have collectively advanced enough to understand it.
Now a days it’s even harder to find a genius of that caliber because most of them are stuck in a 9-5 and can’t ever fully display their vast and creative minds
Leonardo davinci doesn't count cause he was a time traveler that got stuck in the past.
I'd rather say he smashed the astral world and picked some good stuff from out there
@@merlin8046 no, def time traveler
@@eristonjuan No, he was the inspiration for the character "Merlin" in the Arthurian mythos and particularly in "The Once and Future King." He lives backwards in time so it only looks like he's a time traveller.
Leonardo is in Time Quest anime too
I wonder why there isn't a D/D for him
Let's be real, Leonardo was a time traveler from the future, stuck in the past...
RareTV lmaooo probably. This dude made a helicopter
Close enough.
Or maybe everyone else is so fucking stupid that DaVinci seemed like a time traveler.
He could be walking among us right now...
@@MandoRick1978 That's the correct sentence. I don't know why people are so jealous enough not to consider him as genius whilst they scrolling through RUclips and wasting time on watching cat/dog videos contributing nothing compared to Leonardo Da Vinchi.
Brilliant! Thanks for posting.
As an art student it doesn't surprise me that this the person you would put at the top of the list.
Personally I don't think his art is that great, especially compared to other artists in the time period. That being said, he still was a revolutionary of his time, artistically and scientifically. My understanding of a "Renaissance man" comes from Leonardo DaVinci because he was so versed in so many different things, in a time period where art, knowledge and innovation were valued and an explosion of it was happening all over.
On a side note i am disappointed that Steven Hawkin was not on that list of smartest people. Seriously he has brought us farther in science than most can appreciate all while having a wonderful sense of humor and having a disability so severe it imprisoned him in his own body. Truly a great man and great person.
I gotta say, Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood taught me more than i thought. As Ezio you get to try out all those secret engineering projects yourself, and even find out what kind of people Cesare Borgia, Caratina Sforza and even da Vinci himself were.
That game made me so attatched to da Vinci as a friend, that whenever i see his name getting mentioned i get a little emotional and think "hey, that's my buddy, glad to know more people are recognising him :')" but then realise that he'd been dead for about 500 years.
sup the nostalgia bro
When AC was beautiful, and actually cared about historical accuracy :( the good days
@@yougotjohnwicked1755 true... Ezio a legendary character
Davinci has always been one of my favorite people. You can watch hours and hours of information about him and still never be able to fully realize how incredible he was.
Factual statement right there.
I think this should be called "most briljant person ever" because it's intelligence in combination with creativity. Something else I notice is that a lot of briljant people have aspergers/autism. That seems interesting because they have that insane creativity combined with intelligence and hyperfocus.
Yes, Leonardo!!! The inspiration of the Captain Kathryn Janeway. Couldn't agree more. Though, I would put right next to him the Archimedes, the likely inventor of the Antikythera mechanism and the ancient heat ray and all the rest he is famous for! May be he should have been mentioned in the video too. From the more recent, my favorite is James Clerk Maxwell.
"Genius hits a target no one can see." I.m sure a genius out there never got the attention they deserve because of unconventional circumstances. I always believe the world could be 10,000 years more advance if instead of finding idols to worship we found geniuses and help them fulfill their potential.
Not to mention our evolution being stunted by religious dogma....
Alejandro - I totally agree!
@@royyoung9355 Losing the Library at Alexandria tops my list of "if only's"
Not the elite game, bruh.
@@royyoung9355 say *no* to religion kids. Every. Single. Time. Ideologies also tend to be... limited, like religion.
If you go to the museum about Da Vinci in Firenze, Italy, you will be mind blown. I already expected him to be huge genius, but honestly it's difficult to describe how ahead of his time his thinking was.
Great, great great video! Thank you Thoughty2!
Impossible to argue with that. Also for any 3d animators out there, he the reason we rig character models in a T pose by the looks of it haha.
2D animators as well. I used to be one
Bro has been asserting dominance on us beta humans for centuries from the grave.
Good video; just real quick, saying someone has a “300 IQ” doesn’t really mean anything because of how profoundly far from the average it is (100), since IQ is distributed normally and uses the population’s average intelligence.
If the standard deviation for IQ is 15, this means a “300 IQ” person is 13.3 deviations from the average, so plugging into the error function to determine their percentile we get [erf(13.3/sqrt(2))]/2 + 0.5) *100% = 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999.. (39 9’s!) percentile. Or, they are the smartest person out of a sample of a duodecillion.
That number is literally trillions of times greater than the grains of sand on earth (~10^25). So does it really make sense to say someone’s IQ is that high when only 100 billion people have ever lived?
Something tells me iq tests were not a thing back then. It’s a shitty estimate
Honestly, that level of schooling at that young an age, I'd hazard a guess it was largely Pattern Recognition which is core for languages and math , which is why he'd fade into obscurity vs practical application & revolutionize sciences.
Thank you so much for this comment
He was pretty smart- he stayed under the radar lol
This deserves more likes. Just took a Stats class where we discussed this very thing, and I couldn't calculate that percentile fast enough to put down a comment like this. You're clearly drinking the biggest brain juice.
Intelligence is simply creativity. If one is analytically intelligent they are creating solutions to problems. If someone is artistically intelligent they create music, sculpture, poetry, fiction, etc. it’s all creativity, just applied differently.
He was and will remain as the one human who you can look up to the most.
Imagine Da Vinci being born today and be able to access the internet
He would've become addicted to instant gratification like us and not had as much motivation to pursue his projects, probably
@@Mein_KampfyChair I highly disagree
@@_hector__ We can't know for sure, those times and now are COMPLETELY different and simply not comparable--to try to compare what he did then and what he would do now is stupid. We simply don't know what he'd be like today and can't know, so it's just futile.
Yeah that's the thing, everyone is in big part a product of their time. If a time-traveler kidnapped mature genius Leonardo and dropped him off in the present time, he would probably do great things, once he gets over the initial shock.
If baby Leonardo was brought here, he might grow up to be a completely different person, and we can't know if he will be better or worse...
@couchpotato He would turn out randomly but still retain his intelligence. DaVinci is a really curious human. He just wanted to paint better and accurately and ended up studying anatomy. If you gave him a him a chemistry set he would have discoverer a lot on his own. Give him military and ended up making tank designs lmao. So he would thrive in our generation 100% since he did all his thing without proper education. Give him the internet and he can be anybody he wanted to be.
Bet the smartest human is playing video games in his childhood bedroom on social services
Nah if they showed any sign of intelligence at the levels of da Vinci for his times. They’d be in a high school class or college at the age of 9-13
@@TheMagicPencilG You already lost the bet, the smartest human will consider schools crap
Bet he’s good at gaming tho
Bet
@@ST_gamingshorts Yes I am (joke). Am I joking about being a good gamer, or am I joking about being the smartest person alive?
Felix Wankel, inventor of the rotation engine, stated once the most important virtue of a successful genius wasn't sheer intelligence but the ability to stick to goals despite being discouraged by failures and being ridiculed by other people for it.
What gets me is that Shen Kuo never makes these lists and nobody knows who he is. He was basically China's Leonardo Da Vinci (400 years earlier). His resume from Wikipedia:
"...he was a mathematician, astronomer, antiquarian, meteorologist, geologist, entomologist, anatomist, climatologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, medical scientist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, geomorphologist, geomagnetician, metallurgist, mineralogist, encyclopedist, military general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, economist, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, philosopher, art critic, poet, and musician."
Leonardo went missing for several years and has always puzzled me as to where he went and what he did in that time 🧐 maybe one day we will find out.
he definitely went on a bender
#TheAbyssStaresBack
Allegedly he went to a cave somewhere (literally) and saw some “entity” and it’s actually hidden in some of his paintings
@@kristopherhardy3302 so what you're saying is he prolly did psychedelics
He can here to 2020 and binged one piece, and started to idea for doctor stone
*Leonardo da Vinci in a Nutshell*
- basically made his life and the world like a game of Minecraft
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in creative mode
Hahahaha
@@78_mary31 Maybe he used mods
Hes like a damn data miner with how ahead of time he was
All things I knew but you present it so brilliantly, Thanks.
It's because of Leonardo's multiple talents, the the term "Renaissance Man" was coined. to help describe a multi-talented person like Leonardo was. Just reading the title of this video I knew right where you were going to go with it! Great info as always, your videos are very informative, well thought out and entertaining, which are all key to large viewership.
If only he knew that centuries later his paintings would be the most valuable and famous ones.
If it were me, I would have a little pride about that... but I wouldn't be nearly as proud as I would of the fact that centuries later, my designs were implemented once humanity had the technology to build them.
I think you’ll find that he was probably the worlds most respected living painter during his lifetime and was highly sought after, so his paintings were probably already the most valuable and famous by the time he died.
@@punkoid76 Oh, I wouldn't dispute any of that. I'm just saying that if I were him, I would be more proud of how much I had influenced human advancement and technology, simply because I personally value those a bit more than art. Art is beautiful, but is largely a cultural thing that is done for enjoyment. And while making good contributions to art is definitely something to be proud of, i would be more proud (and surprised) that my designs were implemented with technology I never dreamed of. That my designs were so advanced, that they were literally centuries ahead of their time, and could not be utilized until we had tech far surpassing anything I had seen.
I do want to make a small correction to the video though that there isn't actually anything that special about the Mona Lisa despite it being as iconic as it is. In fact, the only reason why it got as famous as it did was because it was stolen a long while ago in 1911.
Sean Rallis I disagree, human ability to create art was the turning point in our evolution, it was the first thing to prove we are capable of abstract thought, which in turn led to written language and on from there the ability to disseminate ideas throughout society, don’t underestimate art as merely a “cultural thing”, after all Leonardo was only as important as he was first and foremost because of his artistic ability, which in turn led to everything else he achieved. As for the Mona Lisa being mediocre, give me a break.
Thanks for actually picking someone! Not “leaving it up to us to decide”
I would argue Stephen hawking must be up there, no one with a condition like his even comes close in terms of achievement
And what’s crazy is that all of it could of been lost in a simple house fire and he and all his works would be literally burnt out of history
This was so interesting! But I feel sorry for the guy with the 300 IQ whose parents had him on a forced learning program from the time he was born. He should have been allowed to become whatever was in him to become, like Leonardo de Vinci was. Comparing the "learning system" of each is sadly ironic. It certainly didn't seem to do the guy or anyone else any good.
William James Sidis *did not* have an IQ of 250-300. That info was made up by his sister and mom with no evidence that sidis ever took an in test, never mind scored that high. But undoubtedly, he was nonetheless extremely intelligent and a child prodigy.
Well, even if he was a genius, it doesn't mean he'd accomplish anything. Motivation and curiosity are a big factor in accomplishments across all fields of education. This is what makes Da Vinci a genius. He was curious about everything and he was motivated enough to research about what he wanted to know. It wouldn't take a huge genius to make all the discoveries he made. In fact what you'd call a genius today could theoretically have done the same as Da Vinci back then. In todays world there's just no possibility for one to excel at everything at a degree that you would be considered a genius amongst all of them.
That is why saying that Da Vinci is the smartest human EVER is controversial. In fact, it's not possible to say that about anyone, because "smartness", intelligence and genius are no measurable things.
@@1MSubsNovideos it was estimated by experts dude
@@rudolfdirks9253 I think you're missing the point. With no formal education, Da Vinci was able to put to paper ideas that were only brought to life centuries later. Ideas that medical doctors of today use. It's almost unimaginable. He was a starting point, which is difficult to do once, yet he did it multiple times.
@@ux1-15 I think you're missing my point. I do understand fully that he was a genius in a way like Einstein, who had a different way of thinking that could revolutionise the field he was working in. However what I was saying is something different. We don't know if he is the greatest genius ever, because a genius of his caliber could easily walk among us, but not be recognised, because every field of knowledge is way ahead of what Da Vinci had.
To put it in other words: if there is a person smarter than Da Vinci, he will never be recognised as that, because he can't excell in all fields across the board. Da Vinci was able to do that, because of curiosity and his genius. But it doesn't exactly mean that he was actually smarter than maybe even your average high-schooler today (intelligence has a lot to do with knowledge and how much knowledge you can recall at any given point).
Seeing as my first guess was Leonardo da Vinci, and my second was Archimedes, it's exactly who I thought.
ThePapabear27 As they were listing out people I was thinking to myself "any list of genius that doesn't include Da Vinci is wrong"....and then he turned it over.
Sir Isaac Newton was only mentioned once, and that was in passing.
That's a tough comparison to make since we know so little about Archimedes. Did Archimedes also do art? We don't know. I think it's clear that he was stronger than da Vinci in mathematics, physics, engineering, and astronomy-- he actually work quantitatively. How much evidence is there of da Vinci working that way? I don't know, but he certainly didn't seem to come close to inventing calculus, like Archimedes did. And the accounts have Archimedes not only designing amazing inventions, but also his inventions being deployed, such as pulling ships out of the water, concentrating the sun's energy to form an energy weapon to ignite invading ships (if the accounts are true, of course). Given how the premise of this video supporting the da Vinci as the "greatest genius" is his work in many different areas, a lot of which survives, or at least accounts of it do, along how little we know about Archimedes, it's really tough to make a call. We have much more of da Vinci's work surviving than we do of Archimedes. In areas where one can make a comparison, Archimedes seems a stronger candidate, especially given how crazy advanced what he is claimed to have done during the 200's BCE.
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Archimedes said, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
However, without the fulcrum all levers are useless.
Genius is the same, unless it can be applied to a subject(s) it is also useless.
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I am an autistic savant. I can compose a masterpiece of music that the industry loves. I can write code, I understand quantum physics, I have no degrees, I flunked general math but aced Trig. I can barely tie my shoes, simple things are extremely hard for me. My psychologist says that he's never seen someone quite like me. I would have to agree for there is no one like me.haha
To understand how great Leonardo's sketches were, try to come up with a design for a machine that would be used 500 years later.
Done. At least 5 of them. I'm going to start building each, when my app starts profiting
Im making a design for the wall of vulcano power generator and also designing houses for Pluto colonisation. Yeah, 500 years it is.
Look how full of themselves these kinds of people are, even thought their so called "sketches" would be used at all. Well solving tough problems are quite alright i guess, its repsectable
@Ajay: That's damn well put man :)
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Einstein Was Asked How It Felt to Be the Smartest Man Alive and He Replied That They Would Have to Ask Nikola Tesla
Supposedly he was being sarcastic?
@Yakgaha Integration but think about this in nikola teslas time ever one said he was crazy but now there starting to see how right he was
@Yakgaha Integration I just feel like einstein really isn't that smart even though his ego may have told him otherwise compared to tesla or in general
@Yakgaha Integration what makes you say that they are closer then I may think?
He was being sarcastic einstein said that Newton was the smartest person ever.
.And in all these years...and I never knew....it always astounds me when some treasure is found so many years after a person is gone. It could have been missed entirely. Perhaps he had a talent for mystery, too. His using his left hand and then only writing in mirror image is plain confounding~! Oh, to have known a man as him just once in a lifetime would be such a treat.
Imagine someone so smart, everybody thinks they're dumb.
Thoughty: "No prizes for guessing where he was from."
Me: RAGES IN AMERICAN
*BALD EAGLE SCREECH*
Jaime OVERWEIGHT BALDING PIGEON SQUAWK
by raging in american you mean raging in bastardized english, or have we finally adopted emojis as our national language?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Brower_Minnoch I mean, he had generalized edema, also known as fluid retention or swelling, it's not like he ate himself to death.
Technivorous 3dprinting How is it bastardized?
“We’ve got top men looking at his notes.”
“Who?”
“Top men.”
They wear top hats.
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We meet again,, doctor Jones.
Michelangelo also dissected corpses to better his depiction of the human body. He and Leonardo had a rivalry as well.
Agreed! What a legend. Up N down the aisle.
I love learning more about that guy. Always have.
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Confucious say: “Man with hand in pocket, feel cocky all day long.”
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Confucius also say” Women who fly upside down have Crack up!
confucius doesn’t deserve to be on this list. there were a lot of ancient chinese thinkers like him, the only reason we still know and read his work is because he got lucky and it survives to this day
Confucius must’ve been expert pocket pool player “man who practices pocket pool
by himself, will have no need to shoot shot on a trick”
@@billybigbollocks298 I think you may have missed the point of the video. In that intelligence is a hard quality to quantify. So who's deserving and who isn't is subjective.
Hi Thoughty2. Are you suggesting that all these geniuses are one person?
I like your channel and watch it every once in a while, with interest.
I whish wou and all your brothers the best, success!
Excellent video mate!!!!
Title: it's not who you think
Smartest person ever: exactly who I thought
Exactly!
I noticed the 2nd smartest wasn't on the list at all ;( Archimedes
@@justmyopinion4101 yh
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Yup, disappointing video lol
Leonardo da Vinci in a nutshell: Why specialize in one of these when you can just do ALL OF THE ABOVE?
All or nothing...
He also invented plastic but back then no one really needed or used it so he scrapped it
I can do ALL of those things too. Though admittedly not very well.
I also invented ideal sunbed positioning.
Yes 🤦♀️
Not music. That would probably be too time consuming. He probably also didn't know very many other languages as it wasn't necessary.
Something I think is fascinating is that technically speaking DaVinci is only the smartest person WE KNOW OF who's ever lived. For all we know it could have actually been a cave man tens of thousands of years ago, some random Egyptian slave, or someone who is living right now but was born into poverty in a third world country and spends their days building train tracks.
Great video! Re-opened my eyes to the genius of Da Vinci.