How Do Geniuses Think?

Here's an interesting article that talks about how Geniuses think, how they take in information and decipher it. They do two things mainly:

1. they look at any given information from many perspectives
2. they think the exact opposite of what is said to them.

Here's an excerpt:

"Genius often comes from finding a new perspective that no one else has taken. Leonardo da Vinci believed that to gain knowledge about the form of problems, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He felt the first way he looked at a problem was too biased toward his usual way of seeing things. He would restructure his problem by looking at it from one perspective and move to another perspective and still another."

Continue reading here [psychologytoday.com]