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What's the difference? We're substituting having superior intellect with having the willpower to work hard. It seems weird to say that at first. But the more I

What's the difference? We're substituting having superior intellect with having the willpower to work hard. It seems weird to say that at first. But the more I think about it, the more I think there must be a reason why some people do persevere enough to become "genius" level at something, and some people never do. Personally, I think work ethic, along with intellect and charisma, is something you are partially born with. It's just silly to say that genetics play no factor: do those with severe mental disabilities just not work hard enough? Think about it as your genes defining a range: you can be between the 30th and 75th percentile of human prowess. Where you fall in that range is up to you.

incognito3 16y ago
Yes and some people are born naturally skinny but if they don't take care of themselves they could become obese. And a naturally chuby person with some work and will, good eating habits, regular exercise can become well fit. There are ranges, any IDIOT knows that. As long as you have some minimum level of intelligence you can accomplish almost anything as long as you work on it. To the brain all inputs are the same. The same basic neural circuit is repeated again and again all over the brain. There are no specialized circuits in our brains. Our brains are general intelligence machines equipped to learn any input pattern as long as it is repeated enough. For hearing, speech, audio, motor skills, memory, thinking, the same neural circuit is used over and over again. If you are able to learn and read by your expected age level than that means that you should be able to get a phd on anything you want (assuming no learning disabilities). Learning to speak is actually pretty hard. It takes years for a child to speak properly. The child brain has to be exposed thousands of times to the same speech patterns until it finally starts to learn them. This explains why it seems so hard to learn high level stuff like advanced math or science, because in order for us to learn knew stuff those patterns have to be repeated hundreds if not thousands of times until our brains finally starts to learn them. For people this is boring which is what makes it hard, not that it is hard to learn. LEARNING QUANTUM MECHANICS IS JUST AS HARD AS LEARNING TO SPEAK. From the brains point of view everything is a pattern. And that pattern has to be repeated a minimum number of times before it learns it. So you see, a child is exposed to speech patterns all the time even if it doesn't want to. The brain will learn on its own. However, you are never exposed to quantum mechanics patterns like in speech. Rather you have to actively seek those patterns. You have to exposed your brain to those patterns just as many times as you had to exposed your brain to speech patterns. Finally, the mere fact that kids are rarely skipped a grade level or fail a grade level means that we are all within the same level of learning ability which means that if your friend from your same grade level is able to become a scientist you could too if you wanted to. So the conclusion is that the differentiator is work and persistence as mentioned in this article. I'm really interested in your counter arguments.

incognito3 16y ago

Yes and some people are born naturally skinny but if they don't take care of themselves they could become obese. And a naturally chuby person with some work and will, good eating habits, regular exercise can become well fit. There are ranges, any IDIOT knows that. As long as you have some minimum level of intelligence you can accomplish almost anything as long as you work on it. To the brain all inputs are the same. The same basic neural circuit is repeated again and again all over the brain. There are no specialized circuits in our brains. Our brains are general intelligence machines equipped to learn any input pattern as long as it is repeated enough. For hearing, speech, audio, motor skills, memory, thinking, the same neural circuit is used over and over again. If you are able to learn and read by your expected age level than that means that you should be able to get a phd on anything you want (assuming no learning disabilities). Learning to speak is actually pretty hard. It takes years for a child to speak properly. The child brain has to be exposed thousands of times to the same speech patterns until it finally starts to learn them. This explains why it seems so hard to learn high level stuff like advanced math or science, because in order for us to learn knew stuff those patterns have to be repeated hundreds if not thousands of times until our brains finally starts to learn them. For people this is boring which is what makes it hard, not that it is hard to learn. LEARNING QUANTUM MECHANICS IS JUST AS HARD AS LEARNING TO SPEAK. From the brains point of view everything is a pattern. And that pattern has to be repeated a minimum number of times before it learns it. So you see, a child is exposed to speech patterns all the time even if it doesn't want to. The brain will learn on its own. However, you are never exposed to quantum mechanics patterns like in speech. Rather you have to actively seek those patterns. You have to exposed your brain to those patterns just as many times as you had to exposed your brain to speech patterns. Finally, the mere fact that kids are rarely skipped a grade level or fail a grade level means that we are all within the same level of learning ability which means that if your friend from your same grade level is able to become a scientist you could too if you wanted to. So the conclusion is that the differentiator is work and persistence as mentioned in this article. I'm really interested in your counter arguments.