Understanding the characteristics of true genius can help us identify it within ourselves. Genius is multi-faceted and many people don't recognize that it is alive in some form or another within them. These are the nine traits of true genius. Knowing them will, hopefully, help others discover what traits they possess, that they may cultivate them, as well as work on building those that are not present. There is a genius within all of us, lying in wait to be discovered and help change the world.