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It's sadly common for people to be brilliant at one thing and hopelessly inept at others.
by ufmace 9y ago
It's sadly common for people to be brilliant at one thing and hopelessly inept at others.
- kpil 9y agoI have worked with a lot of people that were technically competent in a narrow field, but surprisingly clueless in most aspects of life. It was sometimes a bit frustrating, since they could occasionally spend a lot of time on problems that had a simple solution for someone with some common sense. I don't feel smart myself but generally get the big picture so I find it fascinating that smartness is multidimensional like that.
- mindcrime 9y agoHans Reiser[1] didn't do too well with the murder thing either, despite being (apparently) pretty damn smart w/r/t file-system internals. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser