An anonymous, reported by Ilead365 (http://www.ilead365.com/) spends some words on relation between genius and curiosity, saying that “genius is perceiving every problem as something completely new”.

Is a matter of fact that curious people are more “complete” persons, at least because of the continuous (positive) stress put on their brain.
In my opinion is very difficult to trace a clear line between genius and what is perceived as genius.

For example if you try to imagine a person capable of a real effective lateral thinking, sometimes is able to catch some links that can be perceived as “genious” while they could be only the expression of a trained mind.

So, “acting and training as a genious” could make you resemble like a genious.

And curiosity, together with an open minded approach, is the key.

Open mind enables you to explore different approaches, while curiosity (cultivated with perseverance) gives you the datas to explore.

Using an IT similitude, is like having the query tools (open mind) and the database (datas extracted using curiosity).

And though, when the mind is trained to work like this is easier to make “automatic links”.