Video Response #7: Made Genius

     A study was made in a maze were young kids were taken to a maze and they needed to find their way out. The results were that boys make a mental map of the maze and that girls try to solve the maze in a more logical way using landmarks. We have a left and a right brain. The male has the cortex thicker in the right brain, and the female's corpus collusum (which connects the two parts of the brain) is more developed. Susan Polga is a chess master. She has become one of the best in the world. This is amazing, also because she is a woman and fewer women compared to man have been at this level. Susan begins beating men at chess seen little. Susan lived in Budapest, she had lots of chess books and catalogs. She studied a lot of ours a day with these. A psychologist said that specialized training is more important than natural talent. Chess players rely on intuition, and after heavily studying tactics and combination they just know what they have to do. Susan can put the chess pieces exactly as they were after seeing a poster by three seconds. She can do it in her and doesn't need to see the chess board, she does it by memory. Susan can copy a whole chess board. Some people do this by "chunking," just the way she does it.  This is taking chunks of information as one peace of information. These can help you memorize something better. This is a nice trick I didn't know before. Trying to memorize random chess pieces is more difficult. I can conclude from this that geniuses can be made with practice. This was also a theory that Susan's dad had.