Did you know … only about 100 savants exist in the world? At CNN.Com there is an interesting article today .. Savants: Charting ‘islands of genius.” The piece, written by David Martin, shows why the “genius of savants is difficult to fully explain.”
The human brain can come up with amazing skills as this post 
highlighted: “One boy had memorized
People with savant syndrome sometimes exhibit severe mental disabilities and at the same time show "islands of genius," Dr. Treffert said. Savant's brilliance tends to be: “lightning-fast math skills or calendar calculating or spatial skills or near picture-perfect memory or musical ability.”
Such dazzling mental skills defy easy explanation. Watch the mystery of savants -- 3:38. Stephen Wiltshire another savant can see something once and draw it in almost perfect detail -- even something as complicated as a city skyline. (Watch brain scans look for the secrets of genius -- 2:05). Treffert believes the brain injury somehow frees acquired savants from the language and logic that rules our everyday lives. Listen to a savant's extraordinary musical gift
"I have come to the conclusion that until we can explain the savant we can't explain ourselves," said Treffert, often considered the world's leading expert on savants. "We tend to think of ourselves as having this blank disc in the marvelous piece of equipment called the brain, and what we become is everything we put on this disc. And I'm saying there is much more to us. That we come with software," Treffert says. In short ... there is genius in all of us. How to unlock that genius is the key still to be found. What do you think?
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