I guess the reason is because they were just too smart for their era. So, for example, in our everyday life, if let’s imagine Albert Einstein was here to explain me maybe his theory of relativity, maybe I wouldn’t explain his words in the first time, but I’ll definitely catch up from the second or definitely from the third time. So, if we consider that our modern world is more advanced than in comparison to the past, people in the past were not that much of smart as like average people these days. And also geniuses of the past were not like people with 140 IQ. They were actually great, would scale to one of the highest IQ scores in our modern life as well. For example, Leonardo da Vinci possessed an IQ of 220, which almost makes him the smartest person of our current day. And that is the reason why it’s like this.
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I guess the reason is that they were just too smart for their era. For example, if we imagine Albert Einstein here to explain his theory of relativity, I might not understand his words the first time, but I would definitely catch up by the second or third time. If we consider that our modern world is more advanced compared to the past, people in the past were not as smart as the average people today. Also, geniuses of the past did not just have an IQ of 140; they actually had scores that would scale to some of the highest IQs in our modern life. For example, Leonardo da Vinci possessed an IQ of 220, which almost makes him the smartest person of our current day. That is the reason why it is like this.
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