5 patterns in the childhoods of extraordinary people

[@mermanarchy]

Reminds me of the Polgar family. Judit Polgar, considered one of the best chess players and certainly the best woman chess player, was raised by a psychologist/researcher whose mission was to prove that prodigies can be created. He decided he wanted to do this before ever having children, but had no wife, so he literally put out word that he wanted a woman who would commit to this project with him. Someone mailed him, he married her, and they set off making a family of geniuses. Also, I like the captions!

[@octopichael]

hahahaha yes the polgar family is an amazing story! it's also really fun to read through the accounts of the upbringing of all of the daughters, it's quite endearing and surprising also i'm glad you like the captions! i'm debating how to incorporate them into future vids. i think i should use software for these hahaha, writing in all these captions took so long

[@thehuntress8850]

The woman he married,was a school teacher. So she also had knowledge & training on education, & was very much on board with this.

[@CaptainJeoy]

The recurring theme is creating an environment that fosters curiosity in things... Personally, I've always known this and applied in my own life. I'm a game designer and programmer by profession, and anytime I want to venture into a new area of research for a project, I always curate everything around me to fit it, from things like curating all my social media feed, to curating the space where I live; I try to make sure everything around me reinforces this subject. "You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems"

[@MintLemon-e3o]

I think it's about what we think about our ability. Most of the people are very narrow minded. They aren't conscious of their own power. They convey this mindset to their children gradually. So if someone want to raise an exceptional child, he must have an exceptional mindset himself. He should be able to make his child conscious of his abilities and give the environment to nourish them.

[@octopichael]

yeah great point. over years, the child is gradually enmeshed in the limited beliefs of their parents own abilities. whether it's reflective of the kids actual potential or not i'm reminded of that david foster wallace quote, "what's water?" many people are probably completely unconscious of much their worldview is created by beliefs rooted so deeply that they feel like reality, even though they are just beliefs.

[@jokelot5221]

Nikola Tesla has entered the chat. The man grew up in a small Croatian village, to a Serbian Orthodox Priest Father and a housewife mother, where most people knew little to nothing about science, even his school professors. Yet, the guy was a child genius none the less, and ended up as probably the biggest mind in history, together with people like Da Vinci and Newton. So much for stimulating environments theory.

[@qrx4057]

Ramanujan entered the chat

[@jokelot5221]

@qrx4057 Funny thing is, the only person Tesla considered his methor was scientific guru from India. India has some of the world's most brilliant minds. I have great respect for the people from that country.

[@octopichael]

nikola tesla and ramanujan both rock. but neither of them disprove the impact of environments imo both of them looked to cultivate rich intellectual environments and undertake cognitive apprenticeships, they just had to do it outside of the familial environment ramanujan sent many many letters to mathematicians before eventually finding himself in england tesla's interest in electricity came first from demonstrations from his physics professor. in adolescence he read the work of authors like mark twain for inspiration. and there's the work he did in university and with edison both sought to cultivate their environments to support themselves and showed interest in doing so from an early age

[@TheStevanSindjelic]

It is not as simple as you put it. Being a Priest meant you had more education then the rest of the population. Also his father had big library, where Tesla would read. He was born in Austria-Hungary which was major world power at that time, and he continued his education in nearby Karlovac. His mother was housewife, but exceptionally intelligent with being able to recite whole poems and make very complicated weaving patterns.

[@jokelot5221]

@@TheStevanSindjelic He had a good genetic yes, but he wasnt surrounded by "scientists" in a traditional sense, that is what i wanted to convey. His father was a priest yes, i assume well educated, and yes, his mother was exceptionally gifted woman, but Tesla was not in proximity to menthors that would educate him in physics, math or electrical engineering. If anything, most of his school teachers were more of a burden for him, since their mind or their world view was limited in comparison to what Tesla had in his own. I heard he had some trauma in the childhood when his brother fell from the horse and died, it triggered something in his mind that influenced him to pursue science and make an impact on the world. The man was simply built different, and still had the drive and motivation to sharpen his senses and utilize his exceptional mind. If only education was the sole determinant of where genius will show up, we would have people like Nikola Tesla pop up in universities every single day, or even outside of the educational social circles. All of us have intelligent machines nowadays, at our fingertips, internet, books of all kinds, virtually the entire worlds knowledge at the palm of our hand(something that Tesla actually predicted 100 years ago) and yet people probably, on average, are the dumbest that they have ever been in the history of mankind. Just food for thought.

[@armorykittington]

I had to spend my childhood alone in the woods with just my dog and books. Super sucked back then, but super grateful today.

[@octopichael]

oh that's so interesting, i'd love to hear what you're grateful for? it's a world far from how i grew up it's also interesting that you lamented it at the time and yet are thankful for it. this is a sentiment shared by people like bertrand russel and others who grew up a bit isolated. i wonder if the suffering is a necessary component? do you think you might've still gotten the things you're grateful for had you loved the outside life much more than you did at the time?

[@armorykittington]

​@octopichael I'm grateful I had to use my imagination, climb trees, and meditate to pass the time. Now, those things are still very much a part if my life as an adult, and I can still climb trees faster than any kid, lol. It's cool possessing a handful of useful skills that many don't have, while being mindful of things, by what feels like accident. Limitless patience is a cool skill. ...I've never hated the outdoors; I love backpacking - I hated the feeling of wasting my life, even as a kid. The "suffering" made me extremely hungry to learn and experience everything possible in the world as an adult, so I have. I don't take a single moment for granted. I think being forced to live in a way where you constantly learn while the clock feels perpetually stopped accelerates learning, discipline, and drive for success later in life, for sure. It makes you grateful just to exist, but you *GET* to do other stuff?!? It makes EVERYTHING in this world fun and nothing a chore. I wouldn't trade it for an iPad, but if I were given the choice as a kid, I for sure would have, and that would suck, now.

[@armorykittington]

​@octopichael I'm grateful I had to use my imagination, climb trees, and meditate to pass the time. Now, those things are still very much a part if my life as an adult, and I can still climb trees faster than any kid, lol. It's cool to possess a handful of useful skills that many don't have, while being mindful of things, by what feels like accident. Limitless patience is a cool skill. ...I've never hated the outdoors; I love backpacking - I hated the feeling of wasting my life, even as a kid. The "suffering" made me extremely hungry to learn and experience everything possible in the world as an adult, so I have. I don't take a single moment for granted. I think being forced to live in a way where you constantly learn while the clock feels perpetually stopped accelerates learning, discipline, and drive for success later in life, for sure. It makes you grateful just to exist, but you *GET* to do other stuff?!? It makes EVERYTHING in this world fun and nothing a chore. I wouldn't trade it for an iPad, but if I were given the choice as a kid, I for sure would have, and that would suck, now.

[@91722854]

@@octopichael i suppose suffering provides a form of real-tangible feedback to their existence, to motivate them to do something substantial instead of just stare at walls which many of us do today due to overconsumption culture, entertainment 24/7, there's the philosophical questioning of everything stage, but also comes the affirmation of oneself, to execute

[@mylifeismymisery]

What are you grateful for? That you’d survive in the woods?

[@ironubermensch]

The power is in most people's hands, it really is just a decision to learn at this point. Nobody can convince me the lack of learning and education is due to external factors when the ability to learn is so accessible and easy nowadays.

[@shuttzi9878]

If You were conditioned by those close to You at an early age to not enjoy nor appreciate learning then no... It's not a decision It only becomes one when One such person gets rid of those shackles and starts living for themselfs, finding actual meaning and pleasure in learning and by the time they do, they're already years behind those who didn't need to do all that cuz they already had the support and correct approach from the start. You can be the smartest vessel of knowledge(most potential) in the room, but if you're conditioned not to pour any water in yourself then that's just glass For them it's not a decision but a Project-a Very long term one that will require many sacrifices along the way. A path is required, One completely different to which they already paved.

[@ironubermensch]

@@shuttzi9878 I don't mean to disregard nurture as an element at all and I do agree that a less optimal environment can lead to an initial slow start, but that still doesn't refute my comment which is that even though you've had a less optimal starting point the ease in which you can make that environment optimal and productive is almost comical and makes any complaints about not having a good upbringing silly. Just start it's so easy to develop any skill any facet of education there is just no viable excuse for any mentally able person to not go and do just that.

[@1vootman]

It helps if you came from a family of means, but there are exceptions. Frederick Gauss, considered the greatest Mathatician, came from a poor working class family. A teacher reconized his mind. Some genius cannot be ignored

[@octopichael]

that's awesome, i didn't know anything about gauss' upbringing thanks for sharing!

[@thehuntress8850]

I dated a guy with an I.Q of 135 (gifted range, but not genius). Some of it was natural talent, but most of it was not. I visited his family, they played games & enjoyed activities that built logic skills.

[@AncientXCivilizations]

I've 150 IQ and i always avoided girls. I remember in highschool, 3 girls were into me mostly because I could answer all questions. But they appeared boring to me so I never entertained them

[@Hellisarickroll]

​@@AncientXCivilizations150 IQ yet couldnt see nobody asked your relationship to women ❤ take care

[@Beheldtothesun]

​@@AncientXCivilizations what was the point in saying that?

[@Pillow_isbased]

@@AncientXCivilizationsThis proves nothing except for the fact that you’re just gay asl

[@divinealchemy3078]

Ok, so they had parents who were really invested in them (and also had money to pursue a more in-depth knowledge) - so this would be deciding factor as to why some geniuses use their potential during their lifetime, and while others, on the other hand, "fail". Key point: having primary caretakers who care enough about you they actually take time to prepare you for your adult, independant life...

[@MG-ge5xq]

There is another one: overcoming real hardships and obstacles. So to really and fully understand a thing, instead of learning about it. Many very smart and great people had to overcome great difficulties. On the other side, many people who have a pleasant education on the warm couch also at university where everything runs smoothly only become average, or above, but not that kind of very smart. Because they do not get really in profundis.

[@octopichael]

oh that is a good one. it's interesting to consider how many of these figures had ambition around their work, although i do wonder if this is exactly what you're referring to, or if you mean more, obstacles as in, being impoverished or something more physical like that i was listening to some material about einstein the other day and going over the ideas of special relativity. and it's an insanity to try and grasp today, after thousands of people have poured thousands of hours into making the concept as legible as possible. it's astonishing to consider that he just came up with all of that raw

[@TiuBramburel]

Couldn`t it be that smart people can get out of challenging situations while the mediocre ones end up nobodies that you don`t hear about? Remember, everywhere you look you only see the survivors.... I mean.... unless you are a graveyard keeper. But, indeed, one can make a point about how childhood events shape us, but that shaping can take so many different forms that it`s hard to pin-point the exact recipe for success or disaster.

[@octopichael]

@@TiuBramburel that's a good point, we do only see the survivors. there's doubtlessly thousands of people who had these five elements present in their childhoods who we've never heard of in a question such as this, our answers are never going to be scientific, we can't really do randomised control trials hahaha. nonetheless, what patterns we can glimpse are worth thinking about i believe :)

[@myusername3162]

The beneficial effects of hardship only go so far, and id argue hardhips are only beneficial because it teaches you how to have essentially limitless determination and effort. True excellence is a product of love, effort, determination, and patience.

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

I have wondered why so many geniuses in the late 19th century and beyond have been of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and before that of European descent. But perhaps their families had risen socially and economically to the point they could give their children the attention they needed, and they had this culture of genuine intellectual curiosity and learning.

[@Temujin.Thinketh.]

Race matters

[@passwordprotectedd]

@@Temujin.Thinketh. source

[@akinibitoye7908]

​@@Temujin.Thinketh.Race matters has nothing to do with intelligence at all. Science has shown time and time again.

[@ThepurposeofTime]

@@Temujin.Thinketh.ok loser

[@top..G66]

@@Temujin.Thinketh. Explain more

[@aidan-ator7844]

I am just what I am... a silly human that gets too excited at times

[@octopichael]

same tbh

[@michaelshannon9169]

You and 90% of ppl.

[@aidan-ator7844]

@michaelshannon9169 and you too brother

[@GregoryVincent-d9u]

Well never mind ... no harm in that!

[@keithmilton-i9g]

Aren't we all

[@ot7saranghae124]

I honestly can agree with this... As a child, I absolutely hated drawing, but when I shifted to a new school, my best friend could draw so much better and I literally copied her lines beside her, I loved the praise and appreciation I got, and I'd just draw and draw and draw, I found my own love for drawing through that and I can't imagine a life without it now. 😂 My drawing is far far better now, then I was a child, but even teachers were awed by my works and what a motivation it was! And upon boredom, I agree as well, as a only child I spent most of my days alone, to busy myself, I swept myself up in learning and hobbies, now naturally, I just don't find much leisure anything but saffocating. 😜

[@ryonjane]

such a great video!

[@BeyondPower.]

Very epic video man! Insightful to say the least and made me re-value the importance of "boredom", something I knew I should practice and something I now know I will practice, in order to let my mind wonder. It is a true tragedy the over indulgence of short form content and constant stimulation funded by the elite to subdue us. Keep posting content like this, you are well spoken.

[@kNowFixx]

Geniuses are born. Intelligence coupled with certain personality traits. Of course, environment can allow them to achieve their maximum potential, similar to how diet while growing up can allow a child to grow to their maximum height. Environment is just there to make use of the genius. A decent amount of geniuses barely 'achieve' anything in their life. They typically don't care much about 'accomplishments' unless they are very industrious or at least slightly narcissistic. Most geniuses really only care about their own interests, so they would only 'achieve' something if what they care about happens to also benefit society.

[@lubi.e]

Everybody is a genius

[@kNowFixx]

@@lubi.e no

[@gudaguda5523]

Then theres the kids that no one wants and live in the dirt road, warrior of survival, outcast of society, forced to live a villain

[@morgziliuz1972]

dr.doofenshmirtz

[@94462]

Francis Ngannou comes to mind

[@notesinmoments]

Excellent video and topic!! Thank you for citing your sources and including links. I’m excited to have found your channel, you’ve earned a new sub!

[@octopichael]

oh thank you! it is my pleasure i am so glad you liked the video! :)

[@BLaZeProductions100]

Hey man, found this video and then went down the rabbit hole of your channel. You have great content, keep going

[@octopichael]

thanks so much!

[@velvetbees]

Maybe the age these children grew up in helped them to focus on great teachings compared to today. Churchill acknowledged that a change was coming because of WWII. That the age of being taught about ancient intellectuals was over. Cormack McCarthy said in an interview that they all spoke the same language before WWII based on ancient scholars and other thinkers. They were on the same page and had read great works. My mother bought the Great Books of the Western World in the 1950's so her children would understand it. But growing up in the 1960's we were too distracted as kids to read them. The great thinkers aren't even known now. Today it is more five and dime by comparison.

[@octopichael]

interesting idea it's interesting because on the one hand the common practice of learning about the ancients and engaging with a classic canon of great works has fallen from favour in the culture and yet those works are more accessible than ever. nearly all of the great works are public access for e.g. i think the social element is a huge part of it though as you've mentioned. when you read works from folks like goethe, dostoeysky, voltaire, whoever, they all offhandedly mention greek/roman stories or bible verses constantly because there's the assumption that everyone has that common language. which isn't a cultural norm for the most part nowadays still, i'm optimistic about our times generally, those who are interested in these things can pursue it. and can find others who are also interested in those things via the internet

[@thenovicewhispers]

I think this environment can be created for children, however adults are too competitive to create it for each other. The best we can do is create that for ourselves and our families (maybe schools too).

[@octopichael]

yeah :) and that's a rather beautiful sentiment i think. what i loved about henrik karlsson and erik hoel's work is that it that it's inspirational. "maybe we can cultivate these environments too"

[@slickzMdzn]

This was a very important watch for me. Thank you very much

[@cashiusCon]

Love this video very interesting. Someone Who had a currated upbringing that basically ensured he was successful was Alexander The Great who was taught at a early age by aristotle, Whos father was a conquerer and his mother taught alexander from a early age that he was the son of zeus. Alexander Grew Up idolizing achiles.

[@dwacheopus]

Thank you for this video!

[@catalystcomet]

I'm curious as to what areas of intelligence are being referred to?

[@octopichael]

this video isn't really about a specific metric of intelligence like IQ or EQ. it's simply looking at the childhoods of a variety of people who've done generationally defining work within their fields and seeing what they had in common so the "geniuses" here include writers like Virginia Woolf, mathematicians like Blaise Pascal, painters like Picasso, and others :)

[@spiralsun1]

It sounds like “G” or the content-unrelated general intelligence which is correlated with every other kind of achievement and most closely related to the psychological trait “openness” or creativity. The message seems to be that a highly intelligent individual can and will go way beyond the school work. In my case, I would nearly flunk a class, hardly study, and get the highest grades of both classes in accelerated chemistry in high school for example. I wasn’t competitive at all I Just loved learning-every little thing would absolutely explode with significance and meaning-which would be comsid ADHD by those focused on school tasks, but I was learning everything and integrating it far beyond the learned “right answers”. By college I noticed and wrote about a number of paradoxical problems in neuroscience compared to psychology because I had taught myself neuroscience in between classes in college. About 8 years later, they began to call it the “binding problem”. That is one tiny example-I have found things like this in the foundations of human knowledge. Ways of looking at the world that are fundamentally incorrect, but unquestioned. I wrote a book on how meaning is built into the universe-actually in the way it functions. One example is the human eye. I wrote a book 3 months ago which is 100 pages about the absolutely stunning and intricate symbolism in how it is put together. I used to stay home from High School to read advanced physics books and psychology books because I was in an academic book club. I read THOSE books… but nearly flunked out of school-and without even studying I had 99th percentiles on the ACT. That was the only reason I was able to go to college on probation initially. I developed a method of trying to gauge how smart the teachers were and acted accordingly and I graduated college with honors and went to graduate school in behavioral neuroscience and evolutionary psychology at Emory University on a teaching and research scholarship in their joint program with the medical school. Not bad for someone who nearly flunked out of high school 😂😂😂 A lot of this definitely resonated with me. ❤ I told my mom once that I thought intelligence was all down to motivation… when I was about 8 years old. I will never forget what she said: “it might not be for a lot of people”… We tend to project how we are onto the world. That has seriously helped me in my life. To understand how I might cause pain in others by just being me. To understand why I am so massively misunderstood. Like when I say the universe is bona-fide symbolic from a pattern of a higher mind in it, people have nothing to go on… they can’t see it because they didn’t or couldn’t coherently transcend those erroneous assumptions about what they are and life is so imbedded in everything. I can’t blame them. I have nothing but compassion for people. I Love them. I realize in retrospect that my intelligence is definitely not for me-it has made my life very difficult and it isolates me. It’s for them-for you. ❤ And people miss that. But it is inherent in the genius. Love.

[@devochted]

It is so nice to hear such an intellectual video. Thank you!

[@metamorphos0]

Would you recommend books to improve our pattern of thinking

[@AglaiaBarbato]

Ummm read mindfuck, its about how your mind can trick you and its a good start

[@BlueBirdgg]

Very interesting!

[@akaisoup6763]

Yeah this video rocks

[@Demivrge]

You might want to put the lapel a little higher just imo don’t sweat it

[@octopichael]

haha thanks for the tip, i'll play around with the mic placement more next time

[@RaiymbekZhasulanuly]

Well, I always new I'm not genius, neither I'm meant to be!

[@krejziks3398]

Everything comes from the family home.

[@lechatleblanc]

theres different types of geniuses...one must define "genius"

[@ajmosutra7667]

What about nikola tesla?

[@l.w.paradis2108]

How funny. If I ever won a lottery, I'd hire several tutors. And pay them really well.

[@octopichael]

yeah that's a dream. i read once that Alexey Guzey's dream environment to raise kids in involved a suite of grad students floating around a big house for his kids to interact with would be sick

[@user-kr4fz4fr8j]

fun video. even funner comment section.

[@octopichael]

ay lmao

[@obiehive1236]

Is it just me, or does the host of this video kind of look like Superman if he was Asian.

[@octopichael]

ahahahahaha i used to help out kids with studying in high schools around australia.... and i have been called the "chinese clark kent", back then i used to have these square rimmed glasses too

[@aveliese]

rich people, good parents

[@budakdk]

Sorry to be the guy but, you misspelled boredom at 6:48

[@octopichael]

haha thanks for letting me know. oh the perils of manual annotation

[@kaceordb]

@@octopichaelalso if you can find a DeEsser plug in for sound editing it can help with your lisp

[@simonorbison1727]

I think Malcolm Gladwell touches on some of these topics; have you read any of his books?

[@lechatleblanc]

i think geniuses can be born, but they also can be made.... i was both a born genius and a made genius i feel.... in that i was born a genius but had some of the external trappings that contributed to fostering me into becoming a genius even if i wasnt born a genius.... but percieving how none of my syblings are as genius as me, i believe i was born with a certain spark but it was spurred on, helped to develop by my environement

[@kaceordb]

do you like the word genius?

[@PeterRogersMD]

This video was very good. You are on the right track. If you want, it might be fun to talk. My you tube channel is Peter Rogers MD. I am a medical genius. It doesn't do me much good, because in medicine there's no money in curing people. Money comes from selling drugs to chumps. I was an A+ student at Stanford & in med school. Anyways. Best wishes.

[@moon8520]

So being born in privilege basically

[@lalaw2]

its goos that such people existed but they had absolutely no childhood . maybe its a worthy saifice tho

[@michaelshannon9169]

It can't be quantified yet. Look at siblings, one goes on to be amazing, the others a regular person. I have read about Sting of the band The Police. He wrote hits en route to the studio that took half an hour to write. I have met ppl who are utterly hilarious but the rest of their family dull. The famous incident of a punk who got beat up, suffer brain trauma to go on to be a math genius. I don't think we're even close, only at the stage of sloppy speculation.

[@octopichael]

you're totally right! everything mentioned in this video are patterns - things that seemed to help but nothing is deterministic. there are people out there who had none of these traits and still had incredible achievements in their field and vice versa

[@HumanoidRabbitEater]

Iv always wanted this the thing is i dont have the right enviroment for education school just doesnt cut it for me especially after moving to a western country where education felt like i was a preschooler again and now its becoming harder again but its not engaging and the topics arent very well dwelled into in certain subjects overall it just feels very cheap and mass orianted it lacks quality

[@mouse_thakur]

chatgpt could serve aristocratic tutor

[@octopichael]

optimistically! that's certainly the most exciting frontier for this stuff rn :) but chatGPT doesn't solve some of the other elements that were likely important for the success of aristocratic tutors, namely, the social element having an in person tutor hanging around might've contributed on the fronts of accountability and probably sophisticated world modelling. as in, having a person in front of you to serve as an intellectual role model who you'd viscerally like to impress/be like is a pretty innate human trait that's hard to replicate without that human element

[@JaneNewAuthor]

It's not accurate enough

[@KSATica]

I like eggs 😂

[@vdawg750k4]

GENIUS 👏👏

[@rickdg]

30 seconds in, I’m just gonna say rich parents 😅 gotta be rich parents…

[@mjolninja9358]

Kinda, but not always

[@mygills3050]

@@mjolninja9358 I think he means the speaker. true, though.

[@octopichael]

hahahahaha yeah rich parents certainly don't hurt, one of the patterns is called "aristocratic" tutoring lol but if it were just rich parents we'd expect far more mega-minds given how much global wealth and population has increased, so there's certainly more to it than merely being rich from my understanding, the most important factor seems to be quality of attention. the will (and capacity) for parents to create an environment that's supportive in the ways listed in the video. being very wealthy would help loads with the capacity part of that equation, it's quite hard to act as an aristocratic tutor to your child if you're working 80 hours a week and barely scraping by but even still, not being wealthy doesn't make these things impossible. lots of it seems to be about attentiveness, an approach to studies that emphasises love of learning, contact with other exceptional people, and funnily enough, an appreciation for boredom antoni gaudi, michael faraday, and ramanujan are some examples of folks who did it without coming from exorbitant wealth. but again, rich parents certainly don't hurt hahaha

[@victorray8059]

I don't know if anyone here can explain me. But I seem to be surprised at myself. I'm 22years. When I was a kid I was always at the bottom of my class. When I'm in class I'm usually not attentive cause I have a very attractive imagination. Rough patterns from this like walls, designer shirt etc always catches my interest. My mind has a way of turning this abstract pattern into simulation that plays out as movie in my head. My teacher always complaining to my parents that I'm always daydreaming. All of a sudden I dropped out of school cause I find it boring. I kind of created a dream life in my mind. I don't just watched the simulation of this dream life bro I wake up everyday and grind hard to make that dream a reality. But what I can't get is that, it's beginning to look like I'm a genius. Things naturally explain themselves to me, I can do long maths in my head with calculator or writing materials, I wrote a marketing blueprint for 2 business and those businesses are now having continuous influx of customers, I see patterns everybody miss and when they ask me "how did you know that?" even me can't understand how I can do this things. It's almost like I can easily read people's mind. Like I can easily predict what each person reaction to different things, I can easily grasp complex topics and my mind is do visual that i can watch simulations of things almost like movies and it baffles me that i don't forget things( e.g i can remember ever teacher who have taught me since kg 2 face with precision) isn't that weird? If I'm this smart how come I failed classes during my early day?

[@cht2162]

@@victorray8059 Narcissist?

[@TheFuture36520]

Woah 😮🎉

[@VincentZevecke]

This is very narrow pov about how geniuses are developed.

[@octopichael]

i'd love to know what you'd add to this POV/how you think about it! are there any key factors (pareto principle type factors) you feel were missed? i think that any video less than a few hours long will be a narrow pov on how something like genius is developed

[@pepsusser]

Ridiculous when people make comments like this then proceed to explain nothing.

[@VincentZevecke]

​@@pepsusser.I agree

[@jennies3rdpetdog527]

The comment you are agreeing with is referring to you blud.​@@VincentZevecke

[@tombyfield4510]

its random af too

[@HumanoidRabbitEater]

Wish i was born into an aristocratic family

[@Zarathustran]

Did not know John Stuart Mill tutored his father only for his father to steal credit for his work. Restating what he’d learned in his own words was for his FATHER’S benefit, see? He even edited his own ideas his father apparently COULDN’T EVEN STEAL RIGHT despite tricking him! My father and then after his death others in my family did the same to me. Cognitive apprenticeship is probably an optimistic mischaracterization of parental approval routinely denied by doublebind more often than not.

[@aureliaesrasmus]

lies.

[@Zarathustran]

@ L O L as if. That it triggers you suggests otherwise all the more. Tell yourself whatever you need to though.

[@cht2162]

"Hell is other People." Sartre

[@alphasuperior100]

Are you an intellectual ?

[@jamesmccaul2945]

Do we need hard coded subtitles?

[@pushpaparker1412]

Encourage me to Everything, by 👩 and Daddy 👨 😋 🎉❤YES I AM BLESSEDLY ✍️ Giniouse Teaching Everything Because They Both of My Teacher and Parent's. I ✋️ Strongly Claim Positive Blessedly Content ✨️ 🙏 🙌 ❤️ 👏 About Social, Relegiouse, Spiritual Life 🙏 🙌 ✨️ Journey With Mindfulness, And Help Live Life Cleverness. Thanks God Thanks Mom Daddy. Appreciate this Type of Information.

[@cht2162]

C-

[@astroxdavinci]

Non of them were gifted

[@octopichael]

why do you say so?

[@AllahgivesMotivation]

I agree but being gifted is overrated If u know what I mean ​@@octopichael

[@astroxdavinci]

We all are unique in a way they were genius.People say I'm gifted but in everyone I see a genius, but people put these people on pedestals but all it takes to release the greatness is to put the phone down and just be bored

[@AllahgivesMotivation]

@@astroxdavinci yes ! Someone got it now! finally!

[@octopichael]

that's a really lovely sentiment! and yes, putting the phone away and embracing boredom seems like a pretty core component of this whole journey :)

[@CaptainSamuelVimesBootsTheory]

:)

[@freeone69]

Adding 5 more valid excuses as to why i didn't reach my potential. ty!