4. Brain Injury Makes Man A Math Genius
A furniture sales representative, Jason Padgett was brutally attacked back in 2002. Today the Tacoma, Washington-based man views the world through a grand geometric lens. What was clearly a devastating brain injury appears to have somehow positively impacted his brain.
Now he sees everything in his personal world as some type of mathematical structure. Despite having at best a minimal interest in any academic subject, he somehow developed the mental talent to intuitively visualize physics concepts and complicated mathematical objects.
