The variety of genius tempers

The characteristics of geniuses are very different and sometimes make different types of personalities. There are several examples:

Devy that became the part of aristocracy and married the rich widow was discussing deep and contradicted topics applying his knowledge in solving purely important applied problems.

Faraday being 40 resisted the temptation to dedicate his work to industry getting good money after the discovery of the phenomena of electromagnetic induction and he received only 5 pounds a week and stayed being the laboratory investigator working in science.

Lord Kelvin had the extraordinary creative energy and even dieing he continued working on his scientific article. He became the honoured person of England and his money made about 162 thousand pounds but he was working without rest. His creative work didn't stop even being with guests or children.

There are also the practical absolutely realistic geniuses that correspond to the necessities of the time not being in front of them. The answer of Cromwell is rather interesting from such point of view according to which he can tell what he doesn't want but he can't tell what he wants because he will know it only after it becomes necessary for him.

But the main speciality of genius is really the love to the huge labour, the absolute obsession and the desire to achieve the perfection.