Accidental Genius

This video is practically about savants. Savants or idiot savants are people who is considered to be mentally handicapped but displays brilliance in a specific area, especially one involving memory. [Mac’s Dictionary] There are two categories of savants: Gifted savant and prestigious savants. Gifted savants are savants do something useful but not wow. An example is playing the piano. Prestigious savant is prodigies of something that can do something consider the best of anything even is he wasn’t mentally impaired. There was a man called Tommy that after two arteries in this brain exploded and started to bleed into this brain causing pressure into his frontal and temporal lobe he started compulsively painting. He even became so hard to live with, his wife left him. Another savant has the most amazing reading skill and memory. He can read 500 words a second, and can remember EVERY SINGLE THING he reads.  Still I believe you develop these skills by practice, these people overcame the difficulties that came with there mental illness.