Well, if Steve R. is right, and insanity is linked with genius, then Adam must be a freakin' super-genius.
More seriously, genius includes a specific ability - to see connections or pathways between things; things scattered in space, time, or logic.
The chess genius sees plays in his head and determines counteractions. Genius strategists in war can analyze and predict opponent's strategies and defeat them before they were aware whom they faced. In a limited sense, George S Patton was like that.
The techno-genius sees interactions between elements of technology and sees how to make them work together, or sees quirks in theory and sees ways to exploit them. Case in point: William F Shockley, inventor of the transistor and thus (in one sense) grandfather of the solid-state chip circuit and great-grandfather of the computer. He applied crystal field theory to materials that were not good conductors, but they could be made to be good by applying a slight bias to one part; in so doing, he used so-called conduction band properties to the practical problem of a low-voltage switching device.
The arts genius can see many parts coming together to become a cogent whole. For instance, Mozart or Bach.
That ability to see the parts and see the whole is discussed in Goedel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. The idea is that you can switch from reductionism to wholism smoothly once you get the image in your head of whatever it is that you are thinking about. While I do NOT claim to be a genius, I do have that particular ability. I have seen many programmers who were skilled coders but terrible analysts because they could never see the forest because of all the trees in the way. So despite having studied systems analysis, they were unable to apply it.