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Our best measures of intelligence are lifetime achievements (as per Tesla, Einstein, etc.) and IQ tests. Among the most popular IQ tests is the WAIS IV which consists of various components that measure several dimensions of cognitive processing: The test items measuring of each of the four scales (or indices) of WAIS IV are given …
Is it true that all intelligent people must be good at math? Read More »
In A Beautiful Mind, the biography of mathematician John Nash Jr., Sylvia Nasar states: (p. 94) Valleius, the Roman philosopher, was the first to offer a theory for why geniuses often appeared, not as lonely giants, but in clusters in particular fields in particular cities. He was thinking of Plato and Aristotle, Pythagoras and Archimedes, …
In my research for a book on geniuses and their personalities, I am discovering a lot of similar themes that run through their lives. In a few paragraphs, I’ll try to share why they have existential crises and how they struggle to find purpose. Gifted children are usually introverted and have mental processing skills compatible …
Almost all of the people who have generated works that qualified them as a “genius” in mathematics, science or technology were observed to be gifted at an early age, came to school having learned much of what other children learn at a later age. Their grades, especially in those subjects were usually much higher than …
Many decisions in life are fairly straight forward. You’re leaving for work and your neighbor’s car is stuck in snow. You put your car in park, help push the car out of the snowdrift and proceed to work. However, there are many times in life when decision-making has a vital impact on how your life …
Olympic Stadium: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Summer Olympics 2016 We humans are extremely tribal. During his global expeditions, Charles Darwin observed behavior in which individuals sacrificed self-interest to tribal benefit. It occurred to him that the innate biological propensity to pursue self-interest might be partially curtailed by a biological inclination toward cooperation. In The Descent …
While Einstein and Tesla were each gifted with a very high intelligence potential from their genetic inheritance, they were able to maximize this gift through what I call their eureka! addiction. This is the shot of dopamine that hits the joy center of the brain when you solve a problem. Archimedes of Syracuse demonstrated this sensation …
How can I train my brain to be hyper-intelligent/logical like Einstein/Tesla? Read More »
There are many interesting letters found in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Among those between two physicists are the exchanges between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics, in which the two titans battle over the interpretation of the Uncertainty Principle. However, to me, one of the most dramatic letters between Einstein and another physicist …
What is the most famous letter between Albert Einstein and another physicist? Read More »
The ancient Greek philosophers, including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, asked “How do we know truth?” From this question came the idea of setting out some postulates or axioms that everyone could agree were true and then use logic to deduce other truths. This was the basis of Euclidean geometry that was developed to determine all …
There are many real-life examples where a person’s IQ scores and achievement levels did not match. In some cases, the achievements were significantly higher than the IQ would suggest. In other cases, a high IQ did not manifest in significant accomplishments. I will give an example of each type and then draw a simple conclusion …
