Well @donkeypong inmust tell you that our educational system made us duller than we think. Back them people read and study what they loved. The studied what interests them and studying what prompts your curiosity goes a long way in making you understand that concept better than studying what you have been forced to study .

We had lots of geniuses back then too because many of them concentrated more on a particular field and gave it their very best. These days , a child who is interested in music would be chastised by his parents and asked to go study law. He goes to school and is uninterested . The part of him that loves music begins to dwindle yet he isn't putting in his best into learning law and he comes out a nobody because he has achieved nothing in life.

Same goes to a child who loved playing with gadgets . The potential of him becoming a gadget genius exists but no, his parents wants him to be a doctor and that's the end of his Tech ambition.

Our schools often force us to learn what we are so uninterested in learning . Wuth less enthusiasm, we go to school and come back just the same and at the end we just cram to pass exams.

I saw a video one day about a young lady who started drawing from when she was 2 years. Her parents wanted sending her to school but realised she was so uninterested in going to school and reading other books. The only books she loved reading were books related to art and drawings. She could read thousands of such books at her tender age but wouldn't read anything else and so her parents let her be. At the time of watching that video, she was only 13 and had started making millions for her parents with her drawings. She became the bread winner coz her drawings were just exquisite. She became an art genius simply because she did and studied what she enjoyed.

Same goes to this generation. If only we could be allowed to study exactly what we want to study , read only the books we want to read and learn only what we want to learn, you would be surprised at how fast your mind will accept information and make you a master of all just like these great minds above.