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What if you were kinda slow for a big chunk of your life

Did things a bit more later than most people, but eventually you turned out to be a genius?

You dealt with a lot of anxiety and depression but once you got rid of these thinga, your creativity and intellect flourished.

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SomeMichGuy · M

...it would be very unlikely.

dark548 · M

@SomeMichGuy Why?

SomeMichGuy · M

@dark548 well now you edited the post.

if whoever got rid of everything holding him or her back, then MAYBE it might occur...

but the things holding the posited person back probably kept that person from developing their posited genius so that he or she may not be able to show the world their posited genius because they simply have not fed & watered it properly...

and some projects of genius take time...

and the person might again succumb to the things holding him or her back, esp. if he or she hits a snag/setback and then possibly begins to doubt him or herself

and...a lot of ppl have no clue what that term means, operationally...

dark548 · M

@SomeMichGuy interesting 🤔

SomeMichGuy · M

@dark548 to be more clear about my last comment, Isaac Newton was a genius. His accomplishments speak for themselves.

He is also completely out of the league of most persons who are now cited as "geniuses" by, e.g., parents. And self-citations...lmao.

dark548 · M

@SomeMichGuy self-citations?

SomeMichGuy · M

@dark548 oh...ppl who keep claiming that they, themselves, are geniuses. I have yet to meet any such person where it panned out, but YMMV.

dark548 · M

@SomeMichGuy so geniuses do not realize they are geniuses? Are you trying to offend me? Lol

SomeMichGuy · M

@dark548 no...I mean that if you meet ppl who keep telling you they are geniuses, has it ever really seemed that way?

I knew a person in a PhD program (applied natural science) who kept saying he was a genius. This turned out to partly be due to his not understanding that one std deviation on the IQ Gaussian is 20 points, not 10 (if you had an IQ measured at 120 and thought σ = 10, you would think you were a "2 sigma" person, rather than being the "1 sigma" person you would actually be...). And he cheated on homework, made up "facts" in the field, and failed the oral exam to become a PhD candidate...

As a result, I did not consider his self-evaluation to have been either accurate or based upon all available data.

So, no, it was not at all directed against you.

dark548 · M

@SomeMichGuy ohh I misunderstood then lol

SomeMichGuy · M

@dark548 😊 we sorted it out

if someone is a genius, it will be obvious

if not, also obvious

I think the [i]Desiderata[/i] has the best advice: don't compare yourself to others, because you will become both vain and bitter, as there will always be those worse and better than you [my eliding of it]