Some Smart People: Views and Lives 1
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/09/22
Some Smart People: Views and Lives 1 is the first is a long series for more than a decade on the high-IQ communities. The following are acknowledgements and the introduction for this volume. This is intended as a free public access resource.
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Acknowledgements
To Manahel Thabet for being the first in this series and giving a gauge on the feasibility of this project, and to Rick Rosner, Evangelos Katsioulis, Paul Cooijmans, Marco Ripà, and Jason Betts; in spite of far more men in these communities, it, interview-wise, started with a woman, even the Leo Jung Mensa article arose from the generosity of a woman friend, Jade.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Foreword by Scott Douglas Jacobsen
I have immense gratitude for the members of these communities to interview them, individually and in groups, over more than a decade. I tend to come back in waves when time and finances permit to work on this theme. I did not expect to work in this niche more than a year, probably, at the outset.
However, several opportunities and areas to explore for further writing and interviewing came to the fore, whether new societies or high scorers. For the most part, these communities are merely one outlet for expressing intellectual abilities, so one facet of their lives.
The interviews in this volume and in the associated, upcoming volumes in this larger series comprise more than a solid decade of commitment into interviewing members of these communities from all over the world, all different backgrounds, and a wide range of high-range measured abilities.
A potential central benefit in this work will be the evolution of knowledge and perspective through these interviews as represented in the interviews themselves, i.e., a representation of growth from learning through my mistakes and then a lessening ignorance.
Which is to say, a good life goal for me, each day: Try to be less dumb today than yesterday. The material presented is chronological. If I missed someone, I apologize, please let me know. I am not infallible and simply made a mistake. This error can be corrected.
Lastly, I can only re-emphasize rather than add: Without the generosity and kindness from many people in these communities, I would neither continue exploration of these communities nor compile these into a thematic series of public resource.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
August 25, 2024
Kyiv, Ukraine
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash
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