How to Think Like a Genius 22-Clouds
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/11/21
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about geniuses being lost in the clouds — absent-minded?
Rick Rosner: A thing that actually happens with an actual difference between people is it doesn’t get discussed much, but it has to be a thing. Some people think more than others. Some people make a practice of focused thinking more than others. Everybody has — the differences between people’s innate mental abilities are not as tremendous as their expressed mental abilities. Not that you can entirely talk about mental abilities, but everybody has a brain, and most brains have the same components, and they’re subject to fairly tight biological constraints, kind of like height.
Some people are 4’6″ and other people are 7′ tall. But that is only a 50% variation in height with most people with the standard deviation for height only being like 2 or 2 and half inches. it is a tight thing. You take a look at people’s hearts, and people have a variety of hearts, but it’s a tight variety because hearts all have to do the same thing. Your kind of naturally think like — there are people who aren’t as smart as dogs, but those people are the tiny minority, and they are not public. They are institutionalized. Most people that you run into in everyday life have adequate thinking ability.
There’s not some 2 or 3 order of magnitude variation in mental power among people. However, that’s what democracy is based on and people voting. If there are some people that are only .1% as smart as other people, people would be very reluctant to engage in democracy, but there’s an assumption. It is even in our Constitution. All men are created equal.
There’s an idea that there is some level of parity among people and some people being as we — we really are how we think and act on those thoughts.
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