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> how to become a genius: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interru

> how to become a genius: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired.

Scarblac 8y ago
That sounds quite good actually. Now how to do that consistently...
- comboy 8y ago
  First you must convince yourself that becoming a genius (whatever that means) is more important to you than whatever it is that you are currently doing. Then you just act based on your worldview, as you always do.
cJ0th 8y ago
Maybe it's just me who after years at uni is sick of viewing everything from this impoverished academic point of view but I think these statements are not helpful at all. People worship advice/knowledge these days and totally forget about the doing. The statement does not deny that actually doing stuff is important - "work steadily". However, these are just empty words to someone who tries to become a genius by hitting the books first. My advice (yes, I do see the irony here) in this age would be to postpone seeking advice or reading about a topic as long as possible. As a result, your common sense sharpens and you may even come up with fresh, creative ideas that others perhaps didn't have.
- rimliu 8y ago
  > postpone seeking advice or reading about > a topic as long as possible Oh gosh, the number of inefficient solutions, horrible architectures, brain-dead encryption systems I saw, because of the people who did not bother to open a book. To come up with creative solutions you need to have a base for said creativity. I.e. to connect the dots in original way you need to have the dots already. I have nor proof, but I suspect that the number of useful solutions created by people who know nothing about the field is close to zero. Somehow I doubt one would see much further when instead of climbing onto the shoulders of giants they prefer to stay in the pit of their own ignorance.
  - 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y ago
    > Oh gosh, the number of inefficient solutions, horrible architectures, brain-dead encryption systems I saw, because of the people who did not bother to open a book. If you hadn't come across horrible architectures you would have learned less about good ones. It would be nice if this all happened inside of one person, that's what the parent is suggesting.

Scarblac 8y ago

That sounds quite good actually. Now how to do that consistently...

comboy 8y ago
First you must convince yourself that becoming a genius (whatever that means) is more important to you than whatever it is that you are currently doing. Then you just act based on your worldview, as you always do.

cJ0th 8y ago

Maybe it's just me who after years at uni is sick of viewing everything from this impoverished academic point of view but I think these statements are not helpful at all. People worship advice/knowledge these days and totally forget about the doing. The statement does not deny that actually doing stuff is important - "work steadily". However, these are just empty words to someone who tries to become a genius by hitting the books first. My advice (yes, I do see the irony here) in this age would be to postpone seeking advice or reading about a topic as long as possible. As a result, your common sense sharpens and you may even come up with fresh, creative ideas that others perhaps didn't have.

rimliu 8y ago
> postpone seeking advice or reading about > a topic as long as possible Oh gosh, the number of inefficient solutions, horrible architectures, brain-dead encryption systems I saw, because of the people who did not bother to open a book. To come up with creative solutions you need to have a base for said creativity. I.e. to connect the dots in original way you need to have the dots already. I have nor proof, but I suspect that the number of useful solutions created by people who know nothing about the field is close to zero. Somehow I doubt one would see much further when instead of climbing onto the shoulders of giants they prefer to stay in the pit of their own ignorance.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y ago
  > Oh gosh, the number of inefficient solutions, horrible architectures, brain-dead encryption systems I saw, because of the people who did not bother to open a book. If you hadn't come across horrible architectures you would have learned less about good ones. It would be nice if this all happened inside of one person, that's what the parent is suggesting.