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I would like to add to your insight that different situations also benefit from different approaches; and sometimes different approaches to the same situations
by guerrilla 5y ago
I would like to add to your insight that different situations also benefit from different approaches; and sometimes different approaches to the same situations produce interesting results.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI've always thought of "genius," as "looking at it differently," as opposed to "smarter." From what history shows us, that's not a bad observation.
- guerrilla 5y agoI think smarter is probably a necessary condition for genius though. Dumb or average people looking at things differently isn't usually helpful when it comes to really hard problems.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoFair point, but I wonder if a lot of the folks that we consider "geniuses," throughout history, would have actually scored higher on an IQ test, than some of their peers. I have known "off-the-charts" smart people (like perfect SAT at 14), that are extremely rigid and unimaginative. They just need to be smart enough to implement or express their orthogonal point of view.
- guerrilla 5y ago> I have known "off-the-charts" smart people (like perfect SAT at 14), that are extremely rigid and unimaginative. Yes, being smart is necessary but not sufficient.