I met a kid once and learned his birthday. I saw the kid again over a year later on his birthday and said, "Happy birthday" to him. He was really impressed that I remember but I cheated. I remembered his birthday because it was the same day as my birthday.
I used to work at Mcdonalds. One of my coworkers was really awkward but he would be standing around and would randomly say "It's been 8 months 21 days 4 hours and 7 minutes since I started working here". He also remembered every single person's birthday who he knew and could recite it to them months after they had told him. He could really be something, I always thought.
My dad told me 'if you can't be humble, you wont be smart either'. He went on to explain that in order to learn ANYTHING you first have to accept the idea that other people have knowledge/skills/understanding that you do not yet have.
@@alex2005z exactly. A sign of intelligence to me is having great questions, being aware that one doesn't know everything, and always being willing and excited to learn more. Also, something I've learned after going to a lot of doctors, the ones who think they know everything are the worst. The ones with neverending curiosity are far more likely to find actual solutions for your health.
Yes, it is really frustrating... But at least, you guys in U.S. have AP classes. In Brazil, we have just regular classes, so the school has been boring from the start to the end. I'm glad that I finally graduated from Highschool in December 2019...
Samuel Atkins if I got called and they told me this I would ask “does it bother the other kids or do they want to learn it?” And if the answer is no, it does not bother them, they want to learn it I would tell teacher to let my kid do his work then, since he’s clearly not doing a good job.
I was schooled in a homeschool co-op, but I had almost exactly this situation happen for exactly the same reason. Had a teacher who liked to teach things exactly as they were in the book and explain that you needed to do it because that's the way the book said to do it. I made a habit that year of raising my hand and then either asking questions or giving alternate explanations that were mostly meant to answer the difficulties that other students were having because I grew up in a house where my dad often taught me math many years ahead of where I was at. One day the teacher asked me to stop doing more explaining than she was because she was afraid I was confusing the other students. At recess that day, about half the class came to me and asked if they could meet with me separately so that they could keep getting the explanations since the teacher's explanations were usually quite confusing lol
Its even weirder being THAT kid and years later youre in pretty much the same exact spot as everyone else because family pressures to be "amazing" demotivates a person.
Yeap gotta keep making worker bees for those monolithic corporations everyone likes so much for some reason, THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE! Why do you anthropomorphize something that fuck's everything up? I don't understand! *fake cries*
I'm a statistician. For a side gig, I've tutored engineering level calculus and higher math for more than 2 decades. My first year tutoring one of my students was the valedictorian of her high school class, and I tutored her AP calculus. Her mom used to tell me how smart her son was. One day she brought him along because he was stuck on one of his math problems. He was 13, taking calculus at a community college. She had to attend class with him because he was too young to be there without parental supervision (college's requirement). He graduated with his associates degree in college before he had his high school diploma. He was not allowed to be the high school valedictorian because they had a requirement that the valedictorian had to attend at least 3 semesters. It did not take him that long to graduate. He had his B.S. in particle physics at age 17, his M.S. by age 19, and his PhD at 21. I asked him to email me his masters thesis so I could read through it. I've never even seen some of the math symbols he used. I have a B.S. in electrical engineering (emphasizing CPU design), so I am no idiot. But this kid is so far beyond my level of intelligence that I can't even comprehend his brain power.
I tutor English and one day I met this kid (8) who came from the Ukraine. His mother gave me heaps of money to teach him English as quickly as I could. We went through the alphabet in a day. His hw was watching YT with captions on. He actually did it. We then went through all the words he could think of and sounded them out and I taught him all the weird ones in English. Which also took a day. We went through about 4 years of English grammar in a week. Everything I taught the child I only had to do once and he was so HARD WORKING. Just amazing focus. Within 3 weeks he went from not being able to read or write to being B2, which is nuts. That kid better be speaking 20 languages by now. I never saw him again. Genius is awe inspiring and depressing.
In highschool, my younger sister was in the same math class as me (Calculus). I was really struggling and she had an A. One day I remember asking her how she memorized all the formulas. Her response, "oh, I don't memorize them. I just derive them when I get to the test." 😐
I remembered my math teacher with this. He wouldn't teach us the formula and would always ask us to derive them. He teamed up with our physics teacher too...
She understands the why behind it, whereas you don't and have to memorize it. She has the complete fundamental understanding and you understand just the instructions. It's like an engineer who designed a machine vs a tech who follow instruction manuals.
Doctor Banner Im not that smart like you and im still 12 but im the type that doesnt study and gets one of the highest grades in the class or grade level. Im an introvert so id probably have an anxiety attack if i had to teach lol. I do rewrite my notes whenever there are new ones so...does that count as studying? I dont think so- Oh im rambling...
@Doctor Banner I used to be extremely funny when I was a really young kid. I mean, comedian level stuff and I was only 10. But then next school year. I got this old incompetent teacher who hated me because I "disrupted the class" or some bullshit like that. She bullied me, used to target me by giving me extra homework and made me feel so small about myself that I stopped being funny and I gained depression. I used to cry in her class and she didn't give a fuck. (again, I'm fucking 11 years old). It was like brainwash tactics when they would get you to write something over and over again until it breaks you but in this case it was "I'm not funny. I'm just an attention seeker." I still feel terrible about this because I can't even crack a joke any more.
This happened to me in high school. We had a history teacher who didn't like that me and a friend (both have degrees in history now) knew more about ww2 than him. He'd give half facts or full untruths and we'd raise our hands and say, "actually." I don't even think we were punks about it. Cause the guy didn't cover the haulocaust and only talked about America's part in the war. I was merely like, what about Jews in world war 2, my grandfather was actually in a concentration camp. And he was like, we don't need to talk about that, its too negative and just makes people angry at the Germans, many Germans we're good people, we shouldn't focus only on the bad. He was like this for slavery too.
SeizeYourMoment I know a shit load of information about ww2 and i always show it off to my teacher, but my teacher is amazing and is honestly a great guy. he encourages me and my other friends to keep on having an interest in history and he just amazing.
9:00 this teacher infuriates me. Your student is going above and beyond to help out other students learning your subject, and you get.. angry? Frick you.
@@takumifujiwara4419 ...I bet it has to do with the teaching plan set out for every grade, and his teaching math outta class is ruining her schedule. Maybe hes teaching it one way and shes teaching it another way, that could definitely screw up a few kids. So yeah regardless how intelligent he is in math, theres a bigger picture at play here.
Yeup I was that kid who read ahead and would explain stuff to the kids who were just not getting her methods. Got in trouble for it until they moved me to a higher level math.
@@mariosblago94 Quoting verbatim from the page makes one lean toward the idea, though. Doesn't mean it's comprehensive smarts, though; plus, what does it matter if the person isn't also trustworthy, hardworking, etc.
My grandma told me that back in school, whenever the teachers forced the students to memorize poems, she wouldn't study at home. Then when the day of the recital arrived, she would listen to her classmates recite the whole poem and she could memorize it instantly, just by listening.
That's what poets used to do back in the day. I always thought it was really cool. This was especially prevalent in Arab culture, where poets would recite their poetry to eachother and the listener was expected to memorize it the first or second time recited. And these were long too. People were generally impressed if you could memorize an extremely long poem after hearing it once or twice.
In elementary school, I has an older brother who always forced me to memorize poems along with him for no reason. When I moved up to that grade I could recite it all to my classmates as soon as we just reached those lessons. They thought I was a genius.
My ex girlfriend died a couple years ago. At her funerals, we were asked to say some great things about her. Her math teacher in college (highest math class) asked her students the hardest math equation she knew on the last day of school for fun. In less than two minutes, my ex raised her hand and said: 0? That was the correct answer and all of the other students and the math teacher were very impressed because it's nearly impossible to answer this equation in that matter of time. It's such a shame she's not here anymore, she was such an intelligent being.
I'm sorry for your loss and hate to be an asshole. But the part about it being from the "highest math class" is false. The question couldn't have been from anything higher than an introductory level math, by the sounds of it, likely a calc or even a basic algebra course. The answer to a very hard question from a top level 4 year university math course wouldn't simply be 0, and if it was it'd be inherently obvious to everyone in the class. Basically all math classes for math majors past calc 1,2,3 have proof based answers. Math surprisingly becomes much more logic and english based than solving equations. Even in somewhat advanced classes like Matrix algebra, calc of several hypothetical variables, and abstract algebra which employ equations, they usually use very basic equations compounded on each other to present a string of iron clad logic based on the most fundamental assumptions possible. I've seen some pretty crazy math and I still haven't even come close to "highest math class" at my university. Also its well known amongst math students that if you have no clue guess 0. Statisically, its far and away the most likely answer haha. -source am senior in college getting a theoretical math degree from an ivy. But nonetheless, even if it was in a lower level class, any math is hard! We all know that, and she'd still have to be smart to figure it out the fastest in the class!
Don't be sad, guys, the story is almost certainly fake. The writer first claims it's an engine, and then calls it a 'cell' (engines and fuel cells are not the same thing). It's claimed to have improved 'miles per gallon', but all practical means of hydrogen storage have low density and would result in far worse mileage even if the vehicle had improved 'cost per mile'. Further, an inventor who was that ingenious would not have just 'one thing' in the oven. As 'Great Thoughts' said, he could have circumvented IP issues by adapting his design, perhaps in a way that suits a different application. I doubt he'd just have one idea and give up.
I was the kind of kid who could recite entire conversations back to their speakers at the age of two, and then subsequently go back to eating play dough. Best of both worlds.
Me too, as a kid I learned my basic english from Dora the explorer (not native English speaker) and the whole show was in English and Spanish so the fact that I picked it up was amazing and since I've been speaking english since I was young I don't have the accent most of the people have. Then I proceed to spill sugar and eggs on my bed.
This makes me sad. I was one of those kids that just got everything in high school and didn't develop any study habits. College hit me hard. My grades tanked. I tried to salvage it but my school was more interested in taking your money and penalizing you instead of actually helping you. I ended up taking a break with the intention of going back but haven't been back since. My motivation is nonexistent now and thinking about going back to that helpless place and environment fills me with so much anxiety that it makes me sick. I used to be really good at math and physics and now I seem to have forgotten a lot of it. I miss being passionate about it and wanting to go back to it. I'm not good at anything else so I just feel bitter now
Make a simple routine and follow it, like brushing teeth, cleaning up your room and simple physical exercise. You will feel better about yourself and your motivation will increase. When you will feel better, then just try to add more things. Try it, do it and don't make excuses.
This is late, but reading about great scientists gives me motivation, but I mostly think of learning as being fun to keep me on track, so I believe it's all about finding and adopting the right mindset. Hope you're doing well.
What was your major? I was the same, straight A's in highschool without ever really trying. Went to college, and aside from philosophy (which was my major and I usually got B's and A's in without trying too hard), my grades dropped down to pretty much the bare minimum necessary to pass. I remember the passing grade in my chem class was 45%. I lost the license for my clicker and wasn't getting points for attendance, so I just stopped going and watched the streams from my dorm. Then I got lazy and stopped watching the streams and only went to the labs. Right as the semester ended, I realized this little card that had been in my wallet the whole time wasn't an advertising card for the brand like I'd assumed it was. It was my clicker license. I registered the clicker to my student account, and somehow they gave me a 100% attendance record. Then final scores came in, and my final grade for the class was 45.1%. I passed by 0.1% and it was only 'cuz they goofed on my attendance.
When I was in medical school, there was a guy in our class. Throughout 4½ years of college, he never bought a single textbook or wrote any notes. Never studied for any exam. Always was on his PC, watching movies, playing games etc. Never failed a single exam. In fact, he hallways got ~60% marks (which is well above average) Unfortunately, before he could write the final year exam, he went home for study holidays and died in a road traffic accident. I don't miss him. But the world really did.
But I don't understand how it's possible to learn if you don't pay attention in class, nor do anything at home? Where do they get the info from? They probably do things at home, bc people can't get infomation without a source.
Mariat Is Me it’s how i passed my finals. I’m a freshman in high school, but every since I was little I never took notes or studied. I just hear everything they teach and have it memorized.
It may have something to do with how active we study. I have(havent went to hospital) a condition where i tend to "drift off" into a semi-coma, i dont sleep but not awake either when there are teachers speaking. Resulted in me getting scorn from teachers but lot of highgrades
The moment when I realized that my dad, who I used to think was just a normal math professor, currently works with an old lady who was mentored by Albert Einstein. Unfortunately her husband, Ron Graham, passed away quite recently. I’ve been to one of his houses and it was insane.
Yeah, his awesome factor has increased tenfold. His Erdős number is 2, something that only 7,000 out of the 200,000 mathematicians in the world have. Einstein's Erdős number was also 2. Terence Tao, regarded by some as the smartest person to ever live, also has an Erdős number of 2. (Erdős number is basically your distance in co-authorship to the famous mathematician Paul Erdős. Erdős himself has an Erdős number of 0. Anyone who directly worked with Erdős has a number of 1. Anyone who has worked with someone who worked with Erdős--but hasn't worked with Erdős themself--has an Erdős number of 2, so on and so forth. So, even though my dad graduated a few years after Erdős died, several of his coauthors were also coauthors of Erdős.) I feel really lucky, and it's such a special feeling for me to see a picture of a famous dead person in a Wikipedia article, and then know that I was close to them as a kid. But it also puts a bit of pressure on me to live up to my dad's reputation! I actually have a couple crazy embarrassing stories about my childhood and Fan Chung (the aforementioned old lady). I think I once accidentally broke her trampoline when I was six or something lol. That would have been back in 2010.
can confirm. 2 years ago the boss man sends me with a courtain sider van to deliver 2 pallets to a place. well the place was closed and i didn't have a key (yes, that's a thing, we open the shop, deliver and shutter it back to about half the customers per night) so i would be supposed to handball the load onto some other pallets and leave them all in front of the shop. while i was sitting there doing nothing and hating my life a guy with a truck and tail lift appears and starts chatting with me because he was friendly with the management at my business. then i come with the ideea. i park the van behind his truck and use his tail lift to lift my pallets in his truck, then get them down from there with the tail lift. no handballing required. :D
Smartness is multi-factorial. I have a friend who can always go beyond the surface to a certain type of problem and see the 'deeper issue'. They can see the 'how' when everyone else is focused on the 'what'.
I have this level of intelligence,. I'd say I'm average if not a tad bit above in terms of regular education for my age, but when it comes to understanding and figure out cause and effect, it's never hard.
@@hewhomakesnosound I sometimes do the same thing, but in debates. I also tend to break the 4th wall and talk directly to the audience during a debate, which is always really trippy for the people watching/reading.
I dont know many things but when it comes to the things I'm interested in I have a very deep and complete understanding of it. I've also always been a fast learner, way faster than average.
@@Wick291 Except, "stupider" truly is a thing. Most of the major dictionaries support this idea. Have a look: www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/are-stupider-and-stupidest-real-words
I have a friend at school that is really weird and he never does any of his work so his grades are always failing, but almost every time I see him, he is drawing a map of a random country from memory. Sometimes he can even make up maps, for example, today he made a world map that takes place in a timeline where Germany won WWII. This guy is smart in a freaky way.
Ariel ___ ehhh. Savant syndrome is almost exclusive to people with autism. More than likely OP’s guy has photographic (or similar) memory. Or he’s really interested in maps and geography.
Yh he just likes geography and history. In class I play geography quizzes or draw maps, when some historical fact is mentioned I forget about the class and just research on my phone, etc etc. My grades are pretty shit cuz I’m lazy but I know its enough to pass so it doesn’t bother me. I think I’m pretty much the same as your friend lol
The funny thing about this video is that MOST of these people described in these paragraphs aren't particularly "smart", it's just that they may have been by chance born with a talent or specialty skill, or have been raised under the proper circumstances, or gotten into a profession and had the proper training. You'd be surprised how smart alot of people (especially children) would appear to be if they had a chance to be put into a particular situation that showcased their particular skill that they themselves may not be aware is pretty impressive. Alot of people have impressive talents that they never truly have a chance to utilize because life is often not fair and society are large isn't concerned with helping someone explore who they really are and what special talents they may possess and matching them with a career path that'd help nurture or foster it.
I agree with you partially that society and luck plays a role in a person's success. A complete moron can be born and raised with the right situations and opportunities while a smart and intelligent person will never have the same opportunity (this is me). Being smart doesn't mean shit unless you're a genius, being lucky does. Also intelligence is both education and genetics, same thing with appearances, doesn't matter if you're born good looking or have plastic surgery, it's still attractiveness which is determined by luck.
General intelligence, the g-factor, measures specialized innate "talent" to some degree. It would be astoundingly rare to see someone who had a great talent at remembering conversations or books, or holding a great many variables in his head like the prices of items in his shopping cart, who wasn't also pretty high IQ. Adoption studies show that IQ is mostly the result of genetic variation rather than positive environmental impact. For example, there is a famous one conducted in Minnesota that compared the IQ of children from specific populations reared in adoptive homes versus comparatively poor biological homes, and the intelligence of the children closely followed population averages regardless of which family raised them. This means in essence that wealthier parents and a better upbringing doesn't have much, if any, of a positive effect on intelligence outside of the absence of any variable that might negatively impact intelligence such as abuse, lead exposure, or malnutrition. In Steven Pinker's book "The Blank Slate," he references a study that showed very little positive impact on IQ from parental action. Parsimoniously explained, that means signing your kids up for piano lessons and forcing them to read War and Peace at the age of 10 has virtually no effect on their intelligence. There's a wealth of information on intelligence because it has been intensely studied, and is easily the single topic in psychology that experts know the most about, yet try the hardest to obscure for various reasons; point is, intelligence is something that in all likelihood is more innate than not, cannot be greatly changed or cultivated, and is about as immutable as eye color. Occam's Razor, although a crude heuristic at best, is applicable here: What is the simplest, most reasonable explanation for the extraordinary abilities of some individuals, especially those whose parents also possess extraordinary ability? Were those abilities molded as a consequence of the cumulative impacts of a thousand different experiences, decisions, circumstances, parental decisions, educational opportunities, social occasions, relationships, income disparities, and identities? Or was it the result of simple inheritance? The latter is the most simple and reasonable answer here, especially given the overwhelming evidence in support of it.
That’s definitely true. Some people are just inherently better than others at some things. While for other people that thing would take a lot of practice.
I’m ten years older than my sister, but I’ve always known that she is smarter than most people...I remember when she was around 2 my mom used to read her bedtime stories, one day she suddenly took the book on her own and started “reading” it out loud. She was two and didn’t know how to read, she memorized the whole book word by word.
The one at 15:10 is so true. Ive gone through the same thing, and I remember I did the one-page note thing for a class once, and used it ONCE to double check an answer but it helped me review soo much. For smart kids who dont know how to study: they key is to take as much time as it takes to fully learn the material first time around with book notes/lecture notes. Then review however you can (this is a good technique from the video) the day or two before. You just gotta not procrastinate enough so you have time to review lmao
People get tired of it. I'm a sponge for useless tidbits and at this point, people have started saying 'ooh yay, another fact' sarcastically. It's annoying, because it's not even conscious. I just find things interesting.
@@D4n1t0o Depends who you’re talking to. Some people simply don’t care to listen. Others will actually care, and want to listen to you. I’m already a very talkative person, and I know some people don’t care about what I have to say. So I’m friends with the people that do.
I can remember almost anything I read and I research just about anything I find interesting and plenty of people think I'm stupid because they don't have the ability to know if I'm right and just assume I'm making stuff up. You have to know the stuff and get credit for it. That's why Jeopardy winners are considered smart but the know-it-alls like me at the corner bar aren't.
I can relate, this isn't meant to brag but I've always had problems with academics, then I realized that it wasn't that I didn't understand the material it was just because I wasn't trying. I once played tic tac toe with my seatmate for a whole math lesson and then we had to do a test at the end of the lesson, my other seatmate was annoyed because she thought I was going to ask her for help but then she watched as I looked at the board with all the equations for about 5 minutes then proceed to ace the test. She is now fully convince that I'm smart but just lazy.
Everybody is really smart at something. I'm a sponge that love to learn random stuff. My mother is a birthday machine, she knows everybody's anniversary. My dad is brilliant in searching for solutions to daily stuff (dads are good at that usually). I have a friend that achieved everything he wanted just being really disciplined, is like a super power in his case. I have friends that absolute trash in knowledge stuff but are so well connected because they know how to get into people's minds. Is a multi intelligent world. I have a co-worker that never read a book but is the most adaptable person I worked. I had a co-worker that was queen of being happy despite the most daring and absurd problems happening to her.
Now i dont feel that bad, i think im a asocial person but somehow i know how to like certain persons and how to get close to them basically i see a person and they look cool to me and idk how or why but i can get close with them by instinc.
Lucas Rodmo this!! I feel like people tend to measure different types of intelligence to each other, while they should simply recognize everybody is good at their own stuff.
@@karenlumanog1128 Thanks. I feel sad when I listen to people calling themselves dumb when they have such distinctive intelligence in some aspect of life.
In Germany, we almost only have such words. Gloves? In Germany, it's Hand-Shoe. Airplane? Flything. Lighter? Firething. We have mastered the art of lazy naming
I was in high school and was paired up in physics with a girl that everyone, including myself, took for a bimbo. The teacher was pairing me with her so I could help her out since I was at the top of the class, and a known good tutor. We were working on a project with a ton of formulas, I told her not to worry about the formulas because I could get them done and show her. As I start to work she also starts, she works on the next formula while I work on the first, she finished a few seconds after me which was impressive since I was pretty fast myself. I quickly checked her work and it was all correct. I told her she was very smart, and asked her why she acted so stupid during class. She didn’t answer that question but just gave me a smile and made the I don’t know gesture.
I remember this one kid who saved us from failing. So we had a test for a quarterly evaluation, our adviser instructed us about the last test, it was a huge margin for our scores in the test so it was sort of the make up test if you flunked the first ones. The girl suddenly walked up to our adviser and told her "Your instructions are wrong". We had to chart these things and our adviser thought the example was the main topic, she argued about how that was only an example and that you have to make your own topic. Our adviser however, kept insisting she (adv) was right, the girl was getting annoyed so they just took the test to the subject teacher, and apparently the subject teacher agreed with our adviser. The girl was even more confused so they took it to a teacher from a higher grade, and the teacher agreed with the girl. I unintentionally eavesdropped on their conversation in the faculty room, and boy were they grilling our teachers. tldr; Smart girl was confused because teachers were wrong about the instructions for the make up test, they asked teacher from upper grade and agreed with the girl. Faculty members criticized our teachers, and she saved us from failing.
I remember the exact moment when I realized my younger brother might actually be smarter than me (I'm no genius, but boy have I realized how dumb most people are). We were at our grandma's house playing some tabletop game where you had a stand in front of you. Each player was assigned 3 cards at random, each with a number on it. Without looking at what numbers you have, you put the cards onto the stand facing the other players, and the goal is to figure out which numbers you were assigned. The whole time my brother was bored out of his mind and wanted to play on his DS so he was just saying numbers at random without even trying to get it correct. Our grandma, being a bit of a traditionalist, wasn't happy with it and eventually snapped and said "look, you're going to play the game with us, if you win you can play your video game as much as you want". My brother asked her if she meant it, she said she did, and 2 turns later (literally as his next turn came up) with no hesitation he told us his numbers, in the exact order they were in (which wasn't part of the game at all), then asked if that meant he was allowed to play on his DS now. We were all dumbfounded, we all knew he's no idiot, but that came completely out of left field for us. She literally accused him of cheating (tbh we were all thinking it), then when he ran us through it we all agreed that he'd done it legit. The kicker is that he was like, 8 at the time. Since then I've always said "He's too lazy to use his brain most of the time, but when he does he's easily the smartest of us". It's spooky. - In addition to that making me realize how smart my brother is, it also made me realize how smart my younger sister is too. She's 3 years younger than him but has been keeping up with him mentally pretty much since she could walk. They used to argue constantly over stuff (as siblings do) but it was like, 50-50 on who was actually making a better point.
he just counted the cards. not really that complicated. there's only 52 cards, so, keeping track of them is easy. Abd to the OP, yes, smart people get bored easily. Just like super athletic people get bored of sports if they are playing with people way under their skill level. it just isn't challenging enough, hence, boring.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but Frankenstein wasn't the doctor. Because he wasn't even a doctor. He never finished college before creating his monster.
@@ttsreadsredditstories2923 If you want a real mad scientist to look up to, look to Dr. Jekyll, who actually takes responsibility for his inhuman actions.
They are confident in what little they know to the extent that they delude themselves by thinking that's all there is too it. I doubt this effect applies to Gboy
@@m1ner_va489 You missed the second part of it. Once you become better at the subject, you realize how much there is to learn, and underestimate how competent you are.
My dad was a postal clerk in the navy, and when he was about 35 or so, he met my mom who was a computer technician during the rise of CD Roms. My dad decided computers were the future, went to school to get a certificate, got a job at Microsoft as a programmer and then joined the foreign service as an Communications Specialist, with a focus on networking. My dad had been retired when cloud storage was being commercialized and when I started to explain to him how it worked, he straight up just finished the explanation having no experience or knowledge of what it was. I work an IT customer service job and I'll often run by the issues we have so he can help me break it down to simple terms to explain to people. He also had never touched a smart phone in his life until his boss handed him one because it was acting up and my dad fixed it in 5 minutes.
It's not all that big of a deal really. I'm pretty intelligent in many regards, but it hasn't made me particularly successful or even happy. Some people are great at languages, music, sport of whatever. Everyone has different skills and talents. But it doesn't necessarily make you happy or give you a good life.
@@RJALEXANDER777 I'm a bit of a jack of all trades (creative wise like art, sewing etc) master of none. It's awful. I don't stand out in any specific field, I don't know where to focus to gain a profession. I'd rather be really good at one thing like numbers or something.
This will happen for you too if you learn another language! Just start learning - in a few months of steady work, you will probably start dreaming a bit in that language.
@@anderssorenson9998 I also mix English and German for clarity for certain engineering problems. I have to explain what German article I had read from. Translations are seldom precise. I prefer watching " Das Boot " in the original German with English subtitles because of the flavor doesn't come through as well; insults and the like. he producers were scared that movie would not work in an American market. Telling the truth by the comments before the movie shocked people a bit. It is very true 3/4 of the crews lost their lives during WWII.
Being school smart is an indicator you’re likely good at problem solving in other arenas as well. Nothings black and white. Some people are smart in college, but can’t see the forest. Others just don’t work well in a school environment.
I think because mantaining good grades can mean you have great memories and also good at observing , understandment , and can figure good ways to study
@C6SSIE It just happens that I have 2 PHDs a Masters, a Bachelor's degree, and an Associate's degree, but I do agree with you, school or even a college degree does not make someone smart. I do have a bit of advice for you and I think you might like this. I have a saying that I live by, regardless of my degrees. "Never let your college or school stand in the way of your education." Please stay safe and keep healthy as you can.
Here in the states, it's often the opposite, but the teachers hate feeling inferior. The entire reason they became teachers in the first place was to feel awesome about how smart they are, to get in front of a bunch of young, impressionable kids and feel that power over them. Then they call us "anti-intellectuals" to discredit us when we point this out. We're not anti-anything. We're pro-intellectualism, we just hate it when arrogant jerks try to claim that they're smarter than they really are.
"That's the wrong question." That reminds me of politicians. "Dear Mr. Politician, did you or did you not illegally use tax dollars to fund your vacation? Yes or no?" - "That's not what this is all about. What you should really be asking is whether humanity is really willing to go through all the struggles it takes to accept the uncomfortable truth that there is more to society than capitalist constructs." I'm sure some of you could give a better example but you get the idea.
I have an uncle who while doing standardized testing realized there was a pattern to the answers about halfway through. He finished before everyone and got literally every single answer right. He ended up working for nasa as well as sailing around the world three times now. He also sleep walks at times and has fallen off of many things including a second story and a boat but there was once that in his sleep he built an entire cabinet to store a single beer. Nobody would have believed him had his friend not seen it with his own two eyes
@Shawn Wheeler Well this was a long time ago so I'm pretty sure the tests had to be graded by hand so it would make sense that there would be a pattern and he just noticed it and used it to his advantage. And the cupboard he happened to have all the materials and honestly I have no clue how he managed it. His roommate woke up to the hammering and watched my uncle slowly shuffling around putting this cupboard together. It didn't end up sturdy but it was functional.
Laura Francis Wow, your uncle is really smart! I’m guessing he did the cupboard thing because he probably had made one before, and he was just doing in unconsciously. I have heard of people who grilled hotdogs and stuff like that when sleepwalking, so it definitely is possible.
@@muggerpugger3231 Yep! He's great at building things! He cut the boards n all intending to put it together the next day. So he knew the design he wanted beforehand and the only things that were different was that he'd used nails instead of screws, the shelves were a little wonky and it needed to be more secure. But all in all it was probably better than something I could make from scratch entirely conscious
My grandma never went to school and never learned how to read)(she grew up in a small village in the 50s) but she's got a really good memory and can learn things quickly, one time my mom and aunts were talking about one of my uncles and they spoke in English so grandma wouldn't understand, it happen couple times and she was able to pick up and understand. She can remember conversations in a dialog form and just so fascinating sometimes
We have a cat that spends half her time outside and half in. One morning I come out of the house and she was hanging out across the street. She see me and start coming and look both way before crossing.
My previous foster cat was incredibly clever. She easily figured out how to open different types of doors by studying humans do it. Like, she would be super focused and then repeat the same action afterwards. I've never seen anything like it and I've volunteered for different shelters for 10 years, so I know my fair share of cats.
My old German teacher. She spoke not only German and English, but also Spanish, Russian, French, and Swiss-German. Then she said she's learning how to speak Dutch. It was pretty cool. She also has a photographic memory. My friend & I quizzed her once during lunch break, giving her 10 seconds to look at a page of my Science book and then making her say what she remembered. She got nearly everything right. Then there was my grandfather on my dad's side. That man has a freaking PhD and bachelor's degree.
My dad didn’t go to college, had a low paying job for years making labels. He is now a consultant at a big company on label making and he makes 6figures. No degree or anything. Absolutely amazing man.
I once got called the smartest person they knew... by a classmate in college. I feel sorry for them. If I'm the smartest person you know you either don't know a lot of smart people or you base my intelligence on what I do in school. Just because someone knows something you don't doesn't mean they're smart. Just because someone doesn't know what you think is easy or common knowledge doesn't make you smart. I know several people who can talk all day about the subject they got a degree in, but are ignorant about the simplest things.
I get a similar reaction when I tell people I have a B.S. in Chemistry. I did graduate Magna Cum Laude, but I don't normally tell them that, they're just impressed that I can pronounce chemical names like anyone else could with a little practice. People think I'm speaking an alien language when I read the ingredient list for some processed food product and reach the complicated words towards the end. When I hear people go on about all natural ingredients or "I only eat something if I can pronounce the ingredients" I point out that lead, anthrax, and feces are all natural and easy to say, whereas most essential vitamins and amino acids have long, difficult names. Also, if you don't want that bag of chips to be full of mold, you should be glad that tiny bit of sodium metabisulfite is in there.
I had a friend that memorized all the countries including cities of the world there was even a time when I brought a map in school and he said it was an old map because there was one city that changed it's name and we were only grade 4 that time.
Did this on a higher scale. Skipped all year had 100+ absences. Showed up on test day and teachers told me why i would even bother to show up if i was gonna fail. Got top scores on all tests. Still got kicked out tho cuz it was the top magnet school and they couldnt have someone ruining their reputation with such shitty attendance
I have a great one if anyone has the time, I was in 8th grade and had a friend who was pretty strange (definitely some mental heath issues). I always remembered he was really good at math... like genuinely brilliant. He would solve 5 and 6 step algebra equations in his head. But his most impressive feat was on a field trip. We were out of state and a spongebob episode came on. He started to recite it... and he did.. the whole thing from memory. Next episodes, same things. Unbelievable. The kid had memorized every episode he ever watched
When I was in 10th grade I had computer science with this senior who was surprisingly intelligent. He wouldn’t study and still pass AP Calc tests. He was more interested in playing games. I asked how he was so smart and he simply stated that he payed attention in class. We also did this arm wrestling contest in class and I was the youngest beating everyone at strength and so I taught him the knowledge and he almost started beating me. I think about these smart people and I came to the conclusion that they are just like us but view life in a more simple form
There are so many patterns and factors that determine intelligence but the 2 most prevalent superficial characteristics I've seen is motivation, and observational skills. People at much lower mental capacities give in to negativity, codependency, laziness, apathy, and confusion with no direction and confidence on where their life is going. Emotional health, physical health, and hard work is key for intelligence, but unfortunately, the majority of us are already too developed to make such a *DRASTIC* lifestyle change.
I‘m negative, lazy, and apathetic and I have perfect grades in a mathematics heavy university program. Moral? General personality traits aren’t indicators for intelligence.
I've seen allot of motivated people who aren't that smart. As opossed to smart people who are motivated. So if a smart person is motivated that most likely results in succes. But succes doesn't determine how intelligent you are. That has more to do with motivation and luck.
You might be mistaking success for Intelligence here. Intelligence doesn't care how motivated, determined or emotionally stable you are. But, those traits can majorly impact your success.
Im ADHD and I got in trouble for being really good at math, I would do college algebra in 1st grade, I had been getting babysat by my aunt who was going through college. We learned algebra and anatomy together. I could do math in my head and it pissed my math teachers off. My teachers would hand me speed tests and have me do questions in front of other students because they said I was cheating. Then accused me of still cheating when I showed them I could do it in front of them. I just dont need to write 20 levels of steps for a basic question.
Cody Spegel I will forever be impressed by people that are good at math. I most likely have dyscalculia (have the symptoms but never got tested) and I couldn’t do basic equations for the life of me. Only reason I passed is because I learned the right answers from memory.
Got in trouble in Algebra for the same thing in 6th grade. I was 2 years younger and at least 1 grade below everyone in the class (got put into school when I was 4 years and 1 week old). My mom had to go in to explain to the teacher that I was currently tutoring my sister for her trigonometry class and had been tutoring her in math for 3 years...since she started algebra. I knew how to do the algebra work in my head at 7 years old, and had been doing it in my head ever since. It was difficult explaining to a teacher that I literally couldn't slow my brain down enough to even write out the steps. The best I could do was write one step and skip 5 or 6, write another step, and skip to the answer...and that process gave me migraines. He gave up and let me just write out answers after I started doing trig on his blackboard and he had to call in the HS trig teacher the next day to verify my (mostly skipped steps) work. The HS trig teacher showed up, looked at the board, looked at me, then looked at the teacher..and told him not to bother checking my algebra work if he couldn't check the equations I had put on the board. I got that same trig teacher in HS, and he told me on the first day to just use the period for a work out period since I was a varsity football player and wrestler. He just wanted me to show up for tests and he gave me As on all the homework I never had to turn in. Nice guy, barely even learned his name.
My dad was a genius. Dropped out of HS the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and joined the USMC. Fought in Guadalcanal,, iWo Jima, snd s couple other battles. Stayed in the usmc for 40 years went to law school without even going to college first while in USMC. Graduated top of his class and finished first in the bar test . Went to fight in Korea two years as a E-5 fought there two years Became an officer in 1963 tight before his first of three and a half tours in Vietnam. Retired the highest col in the usmc and as the only member of the JAG who never went to college. He could recite any book he ever read on the law page by page chapter by chapter
1:53 my mom had a teacher like that too. He broke his strong arm one time and taught himself how to write with the other, and then when it healed he began using both of them simultaneously.
same, my old music teacher used to work for the government, got ran over by an illegal alien and was paralyzed in his right arm. He learned how to use his left
I met a kid that was 13 I’m twelve and he didn’t know english and he asked me something and I asked him what he said again and in broken English he said where is the cafe and I asked you want to go to the cafe ? And in perfect English I want to go to the cafe This kid could listen and mock it
The "broken CPU" scenario is straightforward for a computer scientist to figure out. If you wrote a deterministic program and a simple computer gives you nondeterministic answers, then either the memory is faulty or you have a bad CPU.
@@heroslippy6666 Yeah, well. If the SAME problem happened each and every time then it would be absurd to assume it was a cosmic ray flipping the same bit of RAM over and over. If it happens once, it's not a completely unreasonable hypothesis.
Yeah but this was also 1985 when MIPS first game out so unless he WAS a computer scientist in the 1970/80’s and had been working with assembly for a few years then maybe but it wasn’t as widespread knowledge as it is now.
Similar to the first one: my grandfather still gets called by farmers and agricultural extension agents about what to do with crops/plants. I knew he grew up on a farm and was in the Master Gardener program. I later found out he STARTED the program so that he wouldn't be the only one with the answers. He's been rerired almost as long as he worked and is 84, still with a half acre garden
My sister has ADD and although I knew she was bright I didn’t realise how much. She only went to school for about a month last year because of health problems. Two weeks before her final exams (last year of school so very important exams) she got her friends to send her all the maths and physics school work for the year as she was determined not to repeat the year. Got 18/20 in both. 15/20 is considered fantastic for a full years worth of school. She’s amazing.
Both! My kids went to school knowing how to read. So did I. My mom and I both read our kids stories, pointing out the words as we went along. The kids start recognizing words first, then letter sounds. Also, math. If you don't push your kids aside, but show them how u add up bills, whatever, they suck things up like sponges. By age 31/2 or 4, they had all our back copies of National Geographics basically memorized.
@@hanarnanarna IKR? Take them places and let them ask questions...libraries, museums, rock formations, dam sites, gem shows, swimming pools, reptile shows, petting zoos, beach clean ups, volunteer work sites. Almost anyone's eager to share what they know with anyone who's genuinely interested.
When he was in 10th grade, my dad drew a picture of the world map with his eyes closed. We held it over an actual map and found that all of the labelled countries and capital cities were in exactly the correct places. My mum and I were shook.
I remember I took my ACT without eating and only had 2 hours of sleep, I couldn't focus and I was only thinking of wanting to sleep. I passed with flying colors. I didn't even know I hat that in me and I was certain I just failed. I started realizing that I actually never needed to study and I would just do things. I remember even spending 1 hour on an essay that everyone else spent a week on and got a 100, and outperform everyone else. This would happen again and again and so I have never really developed the work ethic I needed. Everything just clicked with me and I would just live my life how I wanted. I think this is really hurting me right now, I'm in college and I'm really struggling because I have never really needed to work, on top of ADHD. If you are like I was in high school, please get in the habit of spending as much time as you can on your assignments so you get into the habit of doing your work, cuz if you don't you will go into college the same way I did, struggling because you don't even know how to work.
I'm not very smart. More like average. My last boyfriends were pretty smart guys with photographic memory etc. The first one didn't get his life together and started abusing drugs, the other one is not content with any job. I came to the conclusion that being smart is not always a really good thing. I came to appreciate about me that I'm interested in learning new things even though I'll never finish them or excell at them. And I read a lot of books although I won't be able to recite them word by word.
I can agree, I think it feels like being rejected by everyone in your life, because most parents tend to assume that, a smart kid is being rude when it's simply curious about everything and asks questions, so they are being rude back at the kids, really rude sometimes. After such a childhood it can't understand people or even himself and the only solve to this problem is a good, honest, positive and understanding friend in its life, a good psychologist, or kid solving its life the hard way which can cause it to commit suicide.
xKateshi You basically described I’m a sensitive man. I was really curious as a child and when I would ask questions my parents got abusive and authority would get upset and dismissive. My peers didn’t like me for being a little smarter and serious either. I have had it really rough emotionally.
I'm a person that can explain complex things simply, it's not because I'm super smart, I just dont understand something myself until I can explain it to myself in a simple way that makes sense to me.
I have two sons ten and twelve. I never see them studying, the public school placed both of them in something called “ High ability courses”. They both get straight “A”’s constantly with a B on rare occasions. Any time I try too teach them about life in example dating, staying debt free, being respectful too others, they always finish my sentence and then teach me something about life, I’m 53. I reward them for the grades and excellent behavior. I remember their mother staying up late with them doing homework, and making sure we sent them too the best pre school possible. Looking back I’m thinking a good mother and pre school is the key to a child success.
My dad was once napping and my mom was listening to voicemail in the same room. One of his friends left a message, mentioning his number once. My dad woke up an hour or so later and called him. He had heard the number once while half asleep and remembered it an hour later.
when I was explaining master level math to my fellow 9 graders and my little cousin go like this: "oh are you talking about.." and proceeds to explain what I was introducing, while all of us were dumbfounded. (she is 4 years younger than me) PS:I'm the one teaching her, but I didn't know she actually had comprehended all I had showed her, better than me. PS 2: I started studying higher math because I was supposed to be the smart one In this relationship PS 3: I gave up on competing on math and turned to programming PS 4: she heard me talking Japanese that I learned in animes and started learning Korean on korean shows ps 5: she learned korean, japonese, French, Spanish, english, italian, and some other language I didn't quite yet understand (by the way we are Portuguese) Ps 6:she is now thinking about being a singer...WTF?!?!??? Ps 7: She in 2 singing groups, but it seems what she wants to study to become neurosurgeon.
So I was talking to a friend from my theatre club while I was doing my A level further maths homework. So I decided to try and teach her some of this stuff (to make sure I fully understood it). Now bear in mind she was 13 and she had never seen most of the terminology and notation that was being used, so my explanations were the first time she'd heard of this stuff. She picks this stuff up FAST, faster than anyone in my class of 17 year olds. So I basically just handed her my homework (this was a particularly difficult homework, because our teacher wanted to really challenge us that week), and she just breezed through it. Her writing speed was the only thing slowing down how quickly she was doing it, and she can write pretty fast. I was floored. She swears that it was just that I explain stuff really well, but there is no way that was on me. What's really sad is that she still doesn't do well in school because she's undiagnosed autistic spectrum and/ADHD, and she just can't deal with the school environment properly and her school gives her no support whatsoever.
People being smart is never a coincidence. Being smart is something you practice over and over and over until you internalize it, not something that you are.
How I over came the "studying after you've gone through a period where everything was intuitively easy for you" problem: write everything; abbreviate nothing. Reason: I'm really good at remembering things in context, but not out of context, pathways but not individual stops, or whole systems but not individual components. Back end of 2017 I was taking Anatomy, Physiology, Medical Terminology, and English while working 32 hours a week with ANAT/PHYSIO class lectures back to back same day/same room/same seat. I was crushing Physio with little to no studying as I could recall the pathways and systems by memory but struggling hard in Anatomy due in large part with being completely unable to make it to any open labs and really needing extra time outside the class room lectures/labs to solidify my knowledge on individual parts as I knew that's why I was struggling. Halfway through the term I had a very solid A in Physio and a D in Anatomy (bad lab scores). I only had scanned pictures of the models to go on and was really struggling to make it work using a series of sticky notes with the names and trying to do a matching style of study. Eventually I abandoned that in favor of blank spaces and manually writing every single part, groove, muscle name, etc. and making absolutely sure not to abbreviate anything. This had the benefit of causing me to instinctively begin correlating the time spent writing out a name to the location on the model. Writing everything out long instead of abbreviating also allowed me to succeed in situations where I was asked to give abbreviations not long names, long names with no abbreviations allowed, or provide both. This also helped me memorize how specific things acted on other things by following the nomenclature patterns that appeared within the system or pathway including root words and naming conventions for my Medical Terminology class. EDIT: Physio slid to a high B and Anatomy ended 80.6% at a B; my Anatomy instructor cheered in her office when she did the calculations for my grade, lol.
Had an art teacher who did interactive digital art pieces, and once during a demonstration he casually just wrote code from memory. Like he just said “now we’ll make an egg” and then he just wrote a bunch of code into god knows what program and it turned into an egg. And then he wrote more and more code, making more things all from memory, like that is something anyone just randomly does.
6:50... this is used way too often as a "you have no idea what you're talking about as you can't explain it in a way i can understand" most of the time you have to leave out a lot of information to explain it simply, and occasionally that part of the info leads to contradicting results
This is why being a teacher has been so difficult for me. I see brilliance in all of my students. Intelligence isn’t cookie cutter and I hate the pressure put on us to put kids in a box.
My parents told me it took about 20 days for me to learn how to read. I then proceeded to be the absolute autistic demon I was at age 5 to 7, got expelled three seperate times, still passed elementary school on time with everyone else. #HumbleBrag
My grandpa used to speak 5 languages French ( native language) Vietnamese English Spanish and Italian and he was an electrical engineer I don't know if that's the correct term and you know what's funny my grandpa grew up poor uneducated he has troubles reading and writing growing up
My teacher was really surprised when I could read a novel (200+ pages) in an hour, write and speak in complicated, proper sentences, and do compact column method for addition and subtraction at age 4. I also am able to explain any complicated math problem in simple terms, I could easily teach a 5 year old how to do a complicated problem. I can do a problem in my head, literally just drawing the method in my head like I would on paper. (probably has something to do with my great imagination) Photographic memory is something I also have. It has always freaked out my friends that I can teach the class just as well as a teacher and correct our teacher at age 10. And no, I'm not one of those asian kids who's parents force them to be good at everything. I'm a white girl who has never studied in my life because I hate it. My parents wouldn't care if I was worst in the class, they leave it up to me to make the choice of studying or not. I'm going to be a teacher when I'm older, so if I ever find myself struggling with something, I'm willing to do hours of studying. I've just never needed to.
Here are my stories of surprising people with my intelligence: (1) When I was in kindergarten, the teacher would hold up a book (mostly pictures, a little bit of writing) and would read what was written out loud. Well, I would read along out loud with her. I wasn't supposed to be able to read yet, so they made me go into first grade a year early. (2) I was in junior high and my sister was two years ahead of me in school. She was having trouble with a math problem, so my mom suggested she show it to me because maybe I could help. I was two years behind her in math and had never seen the kind of math she was doing. So I looked at the problem and said, "Well, maybe if you had a rule involving this or that..." and of course, there was exactly such a rule. So not only did I figure out how to work the problem, I figured out what kind of rule you would need in order to be able to work the problem, without having seen anything like it before.
I worked at Lowe’s in delivery. One day, we were driving down the road and I was playing Trivia Crack on my phone. This partner of mine was a complete Neanderthal. Very big and slow. Caveman like. I was getting frustrated and asked him questions I was missing. He immediately had answers. One after another. Each one of them was right. After winning 8 games, I’m stunned. “How???” I say. Turns out this guy went to state academic team 4 years straight and won every year. Never knew.
11:31 The thing is, I can't focus in school either, and I don't even have ADD, so I can't imagine what it must be like for people with ADD. It seems obvious, but they do terribly in school because it is an environment unfit for humans, let alone them. They learn most where they are interested, so thats where all the learning happens, not where they're forced to sit at a desk for six hours a day listening to somebody babble on. The school system is a huge problem for everybody.
i agree, its stupid to teach things (that many times are useless) in a boring way and expect students to focus.. im convinced that most students that focus do it because of parents / peer pressure / not understanding how terrible the system is
This one is about me actually- I’ve always had shitty self esteem and struggle with schoolwork. However, when I got my report card back he pointed out that I have pretty high grades (As and Bs) for my last minute submissions and if that’s without effort then if I put time and effort into my schoolwork I would get A+s in every subject. Never realised how talented I really am and it felt nice :]
One of my friends in college was taking an art class. One of the projects was to make something that would keep an egg breaking when dropped from a third story ledge. He got a fried IMac (circuit board fire), shot out the monitor with a BB gun, cleaned out the glass, and filled the monitor with Jello and the egg. On test day, he screamed an ancient Gaelic war cry and threw the Imac at the ground as hard as he could. The egg did not break. When you have a distribution credit you mine as well have fun.
I watched my dad who graduated high school with b’s and dropped out of college second semester because he got my mom pregnant know how the entire nations electrical infrastructure works and how to identify any type power outage, and use computer code given to open new circuits to give those people power. He’s a pretty smart guy
I"m really good at Russian grammar (I'm 15) A few days ago my dad asked me to check his 70 page paper for his university for punctuation and phrasing mistakes.Found 85.
@@airbeasty1549 yeah i agree! though he does admit to me that i'm the best with grammar in our family (which i don't agree with, since he has gone to like 5 universities) it was very fun as well)
There's a particular artist who comes to my mind. Marc "Xenoyr" Campbell, front leader of an australian band called Ne Obliviscaris, is an excellent lyrics writer. He once stated that he takes a lot of inspiration by looking at complex buldings or architectural details, like for example the windows of the Duomo in Milan. I don't know about others, but converting architecture into extremely visual and spectacular song lyrics sounds pretty genius to me.
One of my friends when we were 16 (first year of A levels) could sit there and correct our biology teacher. Not only that she would also critique her tests because the questions were sometimes worded wrong. On top of this she then revealed that in her home country, Latvia, she did something like the biological version of Mathletes and was doing university level biology at the age of 14-15, she was more health informed than the nurses at school and managed to find out what was wrong with my knee and ankle before my doctor could which was what made it all click for me. Crazy smart girl
I met a kid once and learned his birthday. I saw the kid again over a year later on his birthday and said, "Happy birthday" to him. He was really impressed that I remember but I cheated. I remembered his birthday because it was the same day as my birthday.
Smart enough to remember your own birthday tho Lol
I used to work at Mcdonalds. One of my coworkers was really awkward but he would be standing around and would randomly say "It's been 8 months 21 days 4 hours and 7 minutes since I started working here". He also remembered every single person's birthday who he knew and could recite it to them months after they had told him. He could really be something, I always thought.
Sweet story.happy belated birthday
@@morningsun10 Not belated yet. It's on Monday.
@@erictaylor5462 happy birthday
My dad told me 'if you can't be humble, you wont be smart either'. He went on to explain that in order to learn ANYTHING you first have to accept the idea that other people have knowledge/skills/understanding that you do not yet have.
Thats basicly what philosophy is. Accepting that you dont know everything and tryijng to learn more
Eh, not really. People learn by accident all the time, or through perseverance through repeated stupidity
@@redram5150 Congratulations?
@@alex2005z exactly. A sign of intelligence to me is having great questions, being aware that one doesn't know everything, and always being willing and excited to learn more. Also, something I've learned after going to a lot of doctors, the ones who think they know everything are the worst. The ones with neverending curiosity are far more likely to find actual solutions for your health.
That's a really good life lesson, your dad sounds like a very smart person!
Public schooling in a nutshell: "Tell your kid to stop teaching his classmates advanced math"
Yes, it is really frustrating... But at least, you guys in U.S. have AP classes. In Brazil, we have just regular classes, so the school has been boring from the start to the end. I'm glad that I finally graduated from Highschool in December 2019...
Samuel Atkins if I got called and they told me this I would ask “does it bother the other kids or do they want to learn it?” And if the answer is no, it does not bother them, they want to learn it I would tell teacher to let my kid do his work then, since he’s clearly not doing a good job.
I was schooled in a homeschool co-op, but I had almost exactly this situation happen for exactly the same reason. Had a teacher who liked to teach things exactly as they were in the book and explain that you needed to do it because that's the way the book said to do it. I made a habit that year of raising my hand and then either asking questions or giving alternate explanations that were mostly meant to answer the difficulties that other students were having because I grew up in a house where my dad often taught me math many years ahead of where I was at. One day the teacher asked me to stop doing more explaining than she was because she was afraid I was confusing the other students. At recess that day, about half the class came to me and asked if they could meet with me separately so that they could keep getting the explanations since the teacher's explanations were usually quite confusing lol
Its even weirder being THAT kid and years later youre in pretty much the same exact spot as everyone else because family pressures to be "amazing" demotivates a person.
Yeap gotta keep making worker bees for those monolithic corporations everyone likes so much for some reason, THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE! Why do you anthropomorphize something that fuck's everything up? I don't understand! *fake cries*
I'm a statistician. For a side gig, I've tutored engineering level calculus and higher math for more than 2 decades. My first year tutoring one of my students was the valedictorian of her high school class, and I tutored her AP calculus. Her mom used to tell me how smart her son was. One day she brought him along because he was stuck on one of his math problems. He was 13, taking calculus at a community college. She had to attend class with him because he was too young to be there without parental supervision (college's requirement). He graduated with his associates degree in college before he had his high school diploma. He was not allowed to be the high school valedictorian because they had a requirement that the valedictorian had to attend at least 3 semesters. It did not take him that long to graduate. He had his B.S. in particle physics at age 17, his M.S. by age 19, and his PhD at 21. I asked him to email me his masters thesis so I could read through it. I've never even seen some of the math symbols he used. I have a B.S. in electrical engineering (emphasizing CPU design), so I am no idiot. But this kid is so far beyond my level of intelligence that I can't even comprehend his brain power.
I-
This kid is a fucking genius
God damn GENIUS!!
I tutor English and one day I met this kid (8) who came from the Ukraine. His mother gave me heaps of money to teach him English as quickly as I could.
We went through the alphabet in a day. His hw was watching YT with captions on. He actually did it.
We then went through all the words he could think of and sounded them out and I taught him all the weird ones in English. Which also took a day.
We went through about 4 years of English grammar in a week. Everything I taught the child I only had to do once and he was so HARD WORKING. Just amazing focus.
Within 3 weeks he went from not being able to read or write to being B2, which is nuts.
That kid better be speaking 20 languages by now. I never saw him again.
Genius is awe inspiring and depressing.
Jesus
Serious question.. what good are math geniuses to the world?
In highschool, my younger sister was in the same math class as me (Calculus). I was really struggling and she had an A. One day I remember asking her how she memorized all the formulas. Her response, "oh, I don't memorize them. I just derive them when I get to the test." 😐
I remembered my math teacher with this. He wouldn't teach us the formula and would always ask us to derive them. He teamed up with our physics teacher too...
I actually do this some times, also in other subjects. If you know where something comes from or how it works, you can make it all the time you want
that is why good foundation in the topic is a must.
She understands the why behind it, whereas you don't and have to memorize it. She has the complete fundamental understanding and you understand just the instructions. It's like an engineer who designed a machine vs a tech who follow instruction manuals.
Now that I think about it, my Calc teacher forced us to derive it. I still don’t know how it works
Imagine making a kid stop teaching advanced math better than you, the teacher
simon The fact they saw it as a bad thing is terrible and soo like modern day. ( we’ll bounce back)
Doctor Banner Im not that smart like you and im still 12 but im the type that doesnt study and gets one of the highest grades in the class or grade level. Im an introvert so id probably have an anxiety attack if i had to teach lol. I do rewrite my notes whenever there are new ones so...does that count as studying?
I dont think so-
Oh im rambling...
@Doctor Banner I used to be extremely funny when I was a really young kid. I mean, comedian level stuff and I was only 10. But then next school year. I got this old incompetent teacher who hated me because I "disrupted the class" or some bullshit like that. She bullied me, used to target me by giving me extra homework and made me feel so small about myself that I stopped being funny and I gained depression. I used to cry in her class and she didn't give a fuck. (again, I'm fucking 11 years old). It was like brainwash tactics when they would get you to write something over and over again until it breaks you but in this case it was "I'm not funny. I'm just an attention seeker." I still feel terrible about this because I can't even crack a joke any more.
This happened to me in high school. We had a history teacher who didn't like that me and a friend (both have degrees in history now) knew more about ww2 than him. He'd give half facts or full untruths and we'd raise our hands and say, "actually." I don't even think we were punks about it. Cause the guy didn't cover the haulocaust and only talked about America's part in the war. I was merely like, what about Jews in world war 2, my grandfather was actually in a concentration camp. And he was like, we don't need to talk about that, its too negative and just makes people angry at the Germans, many Germans we're good people, we shouldn't focus only on the bad. He was like this for slavery too.
SeizeYourMoment I know a shit load of information about ww2 and i always show it off to my teacher, but my teacher is amazing and is honestly a great guy. he encourages me and my other friends to keep on having an interest in history and he just amazing.
9:00 this teacher infuriates me. Your student is going above and beyond to help out other students learning your subject, and you get.. angry? Frick you.
because the student is stealing the teachers job lmao so she might get less pay 😂😂😂🤣🤣
@@takumifujiwara4419 ...I bet it has to do with the teaching plan set out for every grade, and his teaching math outta class is ruining her schedule. Maybe hes teaching it one way and shes teaching it another way, that could definitely screw up a few kids. So yeah regardless how intelligent he is in math, theres a bigger picture at play here.
@@landofthelivingskies3318 yh ik this comment for jokes theres way more behind the scenes.
Yeup I was that kid who read ahead and would explain stuff to the kids who were just not getting her methods. Got in trouble for it until they moved me to a higher level math.
@@landofthelivingskies3318 if your students dont understand both ways , you have taught them nothing but headache
The guy telling the supreme court that the book is incorrect is the best power move
Makes me wonder what case it was. 😂
Kyle Donaldson Supreme Flex
it was cool, but remembering a page number doesn't make someone smart.
Just like Mike Ross in Suits.
@@mariosblago94 Quoting verbatim from the page makes one lean toward the idea, though. Doesn't mean it's comprehensive smarts, though; plus, what does it matter if the person isn't also trustworthy, hardworking, etc.
My grandma told me that back in school, whenever the teachers forced the students to memorize poems, she wouldn't study at home. Then when the day of the recital arrived, she would listen to her classmates recite the whole poem and she could memorize it instantly, just by listening.
That's what poets used to do back in the day. I always thought it was really cool. This was especially prevalent in Arab culture, where poets would recite their poetry to eachother and the listener was expected to memorize it the first or second time recited. And these were long too. People were generally impressed if you could memorize an extremely long poem after hearing it once or twice.
How does your grandma remember it if she was the first person to recite?
In elementary school, I has an older brother who always forced me to memorize poems along with him for no reason. When I moved up to that grade I could recite it all to my classmates as soon as we just reached those lessons. They thought I was a genius.
That’s what I did in music choir. I didn’t and still don’t really know how to read music, I just ran by memory
This kid never talked , had like one friend, one day he pulls up to school on a steam car he built. And acts like it was totally normal
My kids better be smart cause I’m not going to be able to help them with homework after 6th grade
Nothing to see over here I'm guessing math is just hard
Nothing to see over here Haha thank you man but I'm in college :) just because i find 8th grade math hard doesn't mean I can't do high school math
@Nothing to see over here ah high school maths are very HARD
Nothing to see over here lol
MinecraftReborn not even bro it’s easy
My ex girlfriend died a couple years ago. At her funerals, we were asked to say some great things about her. Her math teacher in college (highest math class) asked her students the hardest math equation she knew on the last day of school for fun. In less than two minutes, my ex raised her hand and said: 0? That was the correct answer and all of the other students and the math teacher were very impressed because it's nearly impossible to answer this equation in that matter of time. It's such a shame she's not here anymore, she was such an intelligent being.
Bruh this what you be doing in your spare time?
not very impressive if we don't know this 'equation'
I’m so sorry, I hope you’re doing well
I'm sorry for your loss and hate to be an asshole. But the part about it being from the "highest math class" is false. The question couldn't have been from anything higher than an introductory level math, by the sounds of it, likely a calc or even a basic algebra course. The answer to a very hard question from a top level 4 year university math course wouldn't simply be 0, and if it was it'd be inherently obvious to everyone in the class.
Basically all math classes for math majors past calc 1,2,3 have proof based answers. Math surprisingly becomes much more logic and english based than solving equations. Even in somewhat advanced classes like Matrix algebra, calc of several hypothetical variables, and abstract algebra which employ equations, they usually use very basic equations compounded on each other to present a string of iron clad logic based on the most fundamental assumptions possible. I've seen some pretty crazy math and I still haven't even come close to "highest math class" at my university.
Also its well known amongst math students that if you have no clue guess 0. Statisically, its far and away the most likely answer haha.
-source am senior in college getting a theoretical math degree from an ivy.
But nonetheless, even if it was in a lower level class, any math is hard! We all know that, and she'd still have to be smart to figure it out the fastest in the class!
What's 5-2-3
16:10 that dad teared me up a bit, a genius who gave up his work because someone beat him to it
He shouldn't have quit he should have just changed it a bit
well its easy to say that, you should have done this and that.
but its really hard to take that hit in the first place.
Don't be sad, guys, the story is almost certainly fake. The writer first claims it's an engine, and then calls it a 'cell' (engines and fuel cells are not the same thing). It's claimed to have improved 'miles per gallon', but all practical means of hydrogen storage have low density and would result in far worse mileage even if the vehicle had improved 'cost per mile'. Further, an inventor who was that ingenious would not have just 'one thing' in the oven. As 'Great Thoughts' said, he could have circumvented IP issues by adapting his design, perhaps in a way that suits a different application. I doubt he'd just have one idea and give up.
@@Noodles.Doodles I was thinking the same thing
I was the kind of kid who could recite entire conversations back to their speakers at the age of two, and then subsequently go back to eating play dough. Best of both worlds.
me too i had almost all my books memorized before i could actually read them and then would just go and start eating something random off the floor 💀🤚
I would eat the crayons, playdough wasn't my thing... I learned it was too salty.
Me too, as a kid I learned my basic english from Dora the explorer (not native English speaker) and the whole show was in English and Spanish so the fact that I picked it up was amazing and since I've been speaking english since I was young I don't have the accent most of the people have. Then I proceed to spill sugar and eggs on my bed.
@@mattgreer3936 why do i know that you have tiktok 💅
@@Ana-ty8sl So true
“He read the dictionary cuz he was bored when he was 16” what now
i did the same thing and now use really obscure words just to piss off my friends
@@wire5669 bruh why
@@karstenpoels1865 honestly I was 10 and I was bored
I don't remember at what age, but whenever I was bored I would pick up dictionary and read it for hours.
@@kaafisarah are you einstein incarnate now?
This makes me sad. I was one of those kids that just got everything in high school and didn't develop any study habits. College hit me hard. My grades tanked. I tried to salvage it but my school was more interested in taking your money and penalizing you instead of actually helping you. I ended up taking a break with the intention of going back but haven't been back since. My motivation is nonexistent now and thinking about going back to that helpless place and environment fills me with so much anxiety that it makes me sick. I used to be really good at math and physics and now I seem to have forgotten a lot of it. I miss being passionate about it and wanting to go back to it. I'm not good at anything else so I just feel bitter now
Make a simple routine and follow it, like brushing teeth, cleaning up your room and simple physical exercise. You will feel better about yourself and your motivation will increase. When you will feel better, then just try to add more things. Try it, do it and don't make excuses.
You should go back. Take the first step today.
This is late, but reading about great scientists gives me motivation, but I mostly think of learning as being fun to keep me on track, so I believe it's all about finding and adopting the right mindset. Hope you're doing well.
What was your major? I was the same, straight A's in highschool without ever really trying. Went to college, and aside from philosophy (which was my major and I usually got B's and A's in without trying too hard), my grades dropped down to pretty much the bare minimum necessary to pass.
I remember the passing grade in my chem class was 45%. I lost the license for my clicker and wasn't getting points for attendance, so I just stopped going and watched the streams from my dorm. Then I got lazy and stopped watching the streams and only went to the labs. Right as the semester ended, I realized this little card that had been in my wallet the whole time wasn't an advertising card for the brand like I'd assumed it was. It was my clicker license. I registered the clicker to my student account, and somehow they gave me a 100% attendance record. Then final scores came in, and my final grade for the class was 45.1%. I passed by 0.1% and it was only 'cuz they goofed on my attendance.
this is literally me word by word. just that I lost my motivation in class 11 and I just graduated high school
When I was in medical school, there was a guy in our class.
Throughout 4½ years of college, he never bought a single textbook or wrote any notes. Never studied for any exam.
Always was on his PC, watching movies, playing games etc.
Never failed a single exam. In fact, he hallways got ~60% marks (which is well above average)
Unfortunately, before he could write the final year exam, he went home for study holidays and died in a road traffic accident.
I don't miss him. But the world really did.
But I don't understand how it's possible to learn if you don't pay attention in class, nor do anything at home? Where do they get the info from? They probably do things at home, bc people can't get infomation without a source.
Mariat Is Me it is a technique for absorbption
Mariat Is Me it’s how i passed my finals. I’m a freshman in high school, but every since I was little I never took notes or studied. I just hear everything they teach and have it memorized.
Inj3x a college of mine her son never studied for anything and got the best grades, also never had to read a book to pass his drivers license
It may have something to do with how active we study. I have(havent went to hospital) a condition where i tend to "drift off" into a semi-coma, i dont sleep but not awake either when there are teachers speaking. Resulted in me getting scorn from teachers but lot of highgrades
People call me smart at school all the time but then I see this and I feel stupid.
You mean smart right?
@@jasonudosen4289 no he said small
@@Friendsshare yes I mean small
@@Friendsshare he just edited his comment
Auto correct made smar(not smart smar) small and I feel more dumb
The moment when I realized that my dad, who I used to think was just a normal math professor, currently works with an old lady who was mentored by Albert Einstein. Unfortunately her husband, Ron Graham, passed away quite recently. I’ve been to one of his houses and it was insane.
Ur dad sounds so cool, give him a fist bump for me please
Yeah, his awesome factor has increased tenfold. His Erdős number is 2, something that only 7,000 out of the 200,000 mathematicians in the world have. Einstein's Erdős number was also 2. Terence Tao, regarded by some as the smartest person to ever live, also has an Erdős number of 2.
(Erdős number is basically your distance in co-authorship to the famous mathematician Paul Erdős. Erdős himself has an Erdős number of 0. Anyone who directly worked with Erdős has a number of 1. Anyone who has worked with someone who worked with Erdős--but hasn't worked with Erdős themself--has an Erdős number of 2, so on and so forth. So, even though my dad graduated a few years after Erdős died, several of his coauthors were also coauthors of Erdős.)
I feel really lucky, and it's such a special feeling for me to see a picture of a famous dead person in a Wikipedia article, and then know that I was close to them as a kid.
But it also puts a bit of pressure on me to live up to my dad's reputation!
I actually have a couple crazy embarrassing stories about my childhood and Fan Chung (the aforementioned old lady). I think I once accidentally broke her trampoline when I was six or something lol. That would have been back in 2010.
@@theaviator1152 hey, can I talk with you? I just want to learn more about it all if you don't mind that is.
In my engineering course my lecturer says the smartest person is the laziest because they come up with the simplest solution
Lol.... Yes we are & do!! 👍
can confirm. 2 years ago the boss man sends me with a courtain sider van to deliver 2 pallets to a place. well the place was closed and i didn't have a key (yes, that's a thing, we open the shop, deliver and shutter it back to about half the customers per night) so i would be supposed to handball the load onto some other pallets and leave them all in front of the shop. while i was sitting there doing nothing and hating my life a guy with a truck and tail lift appears and starts chatting with me because he was friendly with the management at my business. then i come with the ideea. i park the van behind his truck and use his tail lift to lift my pallets in his truck, then get them down from there with the tail lift. no handballing required. :D
Had an old manager of mine say, "Hard workers just keeping working hard. Lazy people change the world." ;o)
Me who is super lazy but is in too set's for everything: *maybe I should be a scinetist*
Well I have tried that but my teacher didnt like it
Smartness is multi-factorial. I have a friend who can always go beyond the surface to a certain type of problem and see the 'deeper issue'. They can see the 'how' when everyone else is focused on the 'what'.
I have this level of intelligence,. I'd say I'm average if not a tad bit above in terms of regular education for my age, but when it comes to understanding and figure out cause and effect, it's never hard.
@@hewhomakesnosound I sometimes do the same thing, but in debates. I also tend to break the 4th wall and talk directly to the audience during a debate, which is always really trippy for the people watching/reading.
I dont know many things but when it comes to the things I'm interested in I have a very deep and complete understanding of it. I've also always been a fast learner, way faster than average.
@@Rouxgarou96 As have I.
owari da because your thoughts are stupid and sound like shower thoughts?
I honestly feel stupid after hearing all these stories.
And I feel stupider than the dog who figured out how to split bones apart!
Would like but the likes are at the perfect number 👌
Yup legit me rn
Bill Olsen You are right for someone who thinks “stupider” is a thing.
@@Wick291 Except, "stupider" truly is a thing. Most of the major dictionaries support this idea.
Have a look: www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/are-stupider-and-stupidest-real-words
I have a friend at school that is really weird and he never does any of his work so his grades are always failing, but almost every time I see him, he is drawing a map of a random country from memory. Sometimes he can even make up maps, for example, today he made a world map that takes place in a timeline where Germany won WWII. This guy is smart in a freaky way.
He should already make a career out of that, tbh. & change school or something.
Ariel ___ ehhh. Savant syndrome is almost exclusive to people with autism. More than likely OP’s guy has photographic (or similar) memory. Or he’s really interested in maps and geography.
Sami Kay I think he is just really interested in geography and history.
Yh he just likes geography and history. In class I play geography quizzes or draw maps, when some historical fact is mentioned I forget about the class and just research on my phone, etc etc. My grades are pretty shit cuz I’m lazy but I know its enough to pass so it doesn’t bother me. I think I’m pretty much the same as your friend lol
Blanco No you’re not.
The funny thing about this video is that MOST of these people described in these paragraphs aren't particularly "smart", it's just that they may have been by chance born with a talent or specialty skill, or have been raised under the proper circumstances, or gotten into a profession and had the proper training. You'd be surprised how smart alot of people (especially children) would appear to be if they had a chance to be put into a particular situation that showcased their particular skill that they themselves may not be aware is pretty impressive. Alot of people have impressive talents that they never truly have a chance to utilize because life is often not fair and society are large isn't concerned with helping someone explore who they really are and what special talents they may possess and matching them with a career path that'd help nurture or foster it.
I agree with you partially that society and luck plays a role in a person's success. A complete moron can be born and raised with the right situations and opportunities while a smart and intelligent person will never have the same opportunity (this is me).
Being smart doesn't mean shit unless you're a genius, being lucky does. Also intelligence is both education and genetics, same thing with appearances, doesn't matter if you're born good looking or have plastic surgery, it's still attractiveness which is determined by luck.
Very Well Said!
General intelligence, the g-factor, measures specialized innate "talent" to some degree. It would be astoundingly rare to see someone who had a great talent at remembering conversations or books, or holding a great many variables in his head like the prices of items in his shopping cart, who wasn't also pretty high IQ.
Adoption studies show that IQ is mostly the result of genetic variation rather than positive environmental impact. For example, there is a famous one conducted in Minnesota that compared the IQ of children from specific populations reared in adoptive homes versus comparatively poor biological homes, and the intelligence of the children closely followed population averages regardless of which family raised them. This means in essence that wealthier parents and a better upbringing doesn't have much, if any, of a positive effect on intelligence outside of the absence of any variable that might negatively impact intelligence such as abuse, lead exposure, or malnutrition.
In Steven Pinker's book "The Blank Slate," he references a study that showed very little positive impact on IQ from parental action. Parsimoniously explained, that means signing your kids up for piano lessons and forcing them to read War and Peace at the age of 10 has virtually no effect on their intelligence.
There's a wealth of information on intelligence because it has been intensely studied, and is easily the single topic in psychology that experts know the most about, yet try the hardest to obscure for various reasons; point is, intelligence is something that in all likelihood is more innate than not, cannot be greatly changed or cultivated, and is about as immutable as eye color. Occam's Razor, although a crude heuristic at best, is applicable here: What is the simplest, most reasonable explanation for the extraordinary abilities of some individuals, especially those whose parents also possess extraordinary ability? Were those abilities molded as a consequence of the cumulative impacts of a thousand different experiences, decisions, circumstances, parental decisions, educational opportunities, social occasions, relationships, income disparities, and identities? Or was it the result of simple inheritance? The latter is the most simple and reasonable answer here, especially given the overwhelming evidence in support of it.
...or, they can be doped up with behavioral modification drugs, when you see they aren't 'paying attention'.....
That’s definitely true. Some people are just inherently better than others at some things. While for other people that thing would take a lot of practice.
I’m ten years older than my sister, but I’ve always known that she is smarter than most people...I remember when she was around 2 my mom used to read her bedtime stories, one day she suddenly took the book on her own and started “reading” it out loud. She was two and didn’t know how to read, she memorized the whole book word by word.
11:25
“the verb or the noun” that’s such a powerful move i’m so impressed
In some prisons, the prisoners in solitary play mental chess with each other if they are able to hear each other through vents or whatever.
yeah that sounds about right
Spencer Reid did something similar in season 12 of Criminal Minds.
Or maybe they could put small pieces of paper on the ground or something?
@@bikechainimmortalis6923 - Thanks, I'm still on Season 8. But Spence *totally* could do that, especially with his iedetic memory.
@@tearstoneactual9773 haha. Yeah. He's not in Solitary, and if my memory is correct, the dude he's playing with has a chess board with him
The one at 15:10 is so true. Ive gone through the same thing, and I remember I did the one-page note thing for a class once, and used it ONCE to double check an answer but it helped me review soo much. For smart kids who dont know how to study: they key is to take as much time as it takes to fully learn the material first time around with book notes/lecture notes. Then review however you can (this is a good technique from the video) the day or two before. You just gotta not procrastinate enough so you have time to review lmao
I’m going to make it a point to remember random trivia so people think I’m smart
You will only remember random trivia if you find it interesting
People get tired of it. I'm a sponge for useless tidbits and at this point, people have started saying 'ooh yay, another fact' sarcastically. It's annoying, because it's not even conscious. I just find things interesting.
@@D4n1t0o Depends who you’re talking to. Some people simply don’t care to listen. Others will actually care, and want to listen to you. I’m already a very talkative person, and I know some people don’t care about what I have to say. So I’m friends with the people that do.
@@D4n1t0o how you convey the fact is also important even if the fact is so bland or simple
I can remember almost anything I read and I research just about anything I find interesting and plenty of people think I'm stupid because they don't have the ability to know if I'm right and just assume I'm making stuff up. You have to know the stuff and get credit for it. That's why Jeopardy winners are considered smart but the know-it-alls like me at the corner bar aren't.
"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid"
Quote from Einstein.
Ya, no some people are just far less intelligent. And most intelligent people can outperform people who use this excuse.
@@taowroland8697 that person probably amphibians
well it is stupid, that's not what intelligence is
I can relate, this isn't meant to brag but I've always had problems with academics, then I realized that it wasn't that I didn't understand the material it was just because I wasn't trying. I once played tic tac toe with my seatmate for a whole math lesson and then we had to do a test at the end of the lesson, my other seatmate was annoyed because she thought I was going to ask her for help but then she watched as I looked at the board with all the equations for about 5 minutes then proceed to ace the test. She is now fully convince that I'm smart but just lazy.
Everybody is really smart at something. I'm a sponge that love to learn random stuff. My mother is a birthday machine, she knows everybody's anniversary. My dad is brilliant in searching for solutions to daily stuff (dads are good at that usually). I have a friend that achieved everything he wanted just being really disciplined, is like a super power in his case. I have friends that absolute trash in knowledge stuff but are so well connected because they know how to get into people's minds. Is a multi intelligent world. I have a co-worker that never read a book but is the most adaptable person I worked. I had a co-worker that was queen of being happy despite the most daring and absurd problems happening to her.
Now i dont feel that bad, i think im a asocial person but somehow i know how to like certain persons and how to get close to them basically i see a person and they look cool to me and idk how or why but i can get close with them by instinc.
Lucas Rodmo this!! I feel like people tend to measure different types of intelligence to each other, while they should simply recognize everybody is good at their own stuff.
In that case you are also an intelligent individual for noticing these things about other people and appreciating them.
It's a good attitude that you see different people's intelligence. Makes me want to be your friend haha
@@karenlumanog1128 Thanks. I feel sad when I listen to people calling themselves dumb when they have such distinctive intelligence in some aspect of life.
I can’t stop laughing at what that knucklehead commented, “ you’ll never be as lazy as the guy that named the fireplace”. Wow. Challenge accepted
Lol
What about the "waterfall"?
Wait what? Omg lol😂😂
@@Randomperson-ke7xh I wanted to say that xD
In Germany, we almost only have such words. Gloves? In Germany, it's Hand-Shoe. Airplane? Flything. Lighter? Firething. We have mastered the art of lazy naming
I was in high school and was paired up in physics with a girl that everyone, including myself, took for a bimbo. The teacher was pairing me with her so I could help her out since I was at the top of the class, and a known good tutor. We were working on a project with a ton of formulas, I told her not to worry about the formulas because I could get them done and show her. As I start to work she also starts, she works on the next formula while I work on the first, she finished a few seconds after me which was impressive since I was pretty fast myself. I quickly checked her work and it was all correct. I told her she was very smart, and asked her why she acted so stupid during class. She didn’t answer that question but just gave me a smile and made the I don’t know gesture.
I remember this one kid who saved us from failing. So we had a test for a quarterly evaluation, our adviser instructed us about the last test, it was a huge margin for our scores in the test so it was sort of the make up test if you flunked the first ones. The girl suddenly walked up to our adviser and told her "Your instructions are wrong". We had to chart these things and our adviser thought the example was the main topic, she argued about how that was only an example and that you have to make your own topic. Our adviser however, kept insisting she (adv) was right, the girl was getting annoyed so they just took the test to the subject teacher, and apparently the subject teacher agreed with our adviser. The girl was even more confused so they took it to a teacher from a higher grade, and the teacher agreed with the girl. I unintentionally eavesdropped on their conversation in the faculty room, and boy were they grilling our teachers.
tldr; Smart girl was confused because teachers were wrong about the instructions for the make up test, they asked teacher from upper grade and agreed with the girl. Faculty members criticized our teachers, and she saved us from failing.
I remember the exact moment when I realized my younger brother might actually be smarter than me (I'm no genius, but boy have I realized how dumb most people are). We were at our grandma's house playing some tabletop game where you had a stand in front of you. Each player was assigned 3 cards at random, each with a number on it. Without looking at what numbers you have, you put the cards onto the stand facing the other players, and the goal is to figure out which numbers you were assigned.
The whole time my brother was bored out of his mind and wanted to play on his DS so he was just saying numbers at random without even trying to get it correct. Our grandma, being a bit of a traditionalist, wasn't happy with it and eventually snapped and said "look, you're going to play the game with us, if you win you can play your video game as much as you want". My brother asked her if she meant it, she said she did, and 2 turns later (literally as his next turn came up) with no hesitation he told us his numbers, in the exact order they were in (which wasn't part of the game at all), then asked if that meant he was allowed to play on his DS now. We were all dumbfounded, we all knew he's no idiot, but that came completely out of left field for us.
She literally accused him of cheating (tbh we were all thinking it), then when he ran us through it we all agreed that he'd done it legit. The kicker is that he was like, 8 at the time. Since then I've always said "He's too lazy to use his brain most of the time, but when he does he's easily the smartest of us". It's spooky.
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In addition to that making me realize how smart my brother is, it also made me realize how smart my younger sister is too. She's 3 years younger than him but has been keeping up with him mentally pretty much since she could walk. They used to argue constantly over stuff (as siblings do) but it was like, 50-50 on who was actually making a better point.
How’d he do it tho?
How?
he just counted the cards. not really that complicated. there's only 52 cards, so, keeping track of them is easy.
Abd to the OP, yes, smart people get bored easily. Just like super athletic people get bored of sports if they are playing with people way under their skill level. it just isn't challenging enough, hence, boring.
Americans impressed by speaking 4/5 languages
Eurobro's: hold mein cerveza s'il vous plait
Im 16 and speak 5 languages xD
@@mauroguerreiro2234 I am a fetis and speak 40 languages.
i am a transgender gay male from Antartica and i can speak 50 languages
I am a chemically engineered dog in area 51 and speak 69420 languages
Yall bullying me bruh, i was pretty much forced to learn those...😒 ыуат
My teacher was educated: Knowing Frankenstein was the doctor.
My principal was smart: Realizing Frankenstein was the monster.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but Frankenstein wasn't the doctor. Because he wasn't even a doctor. He never finished college before creating his monster.
@@justinalicea1590 Technically true :)
@@ttsreadsredditstories2923 If you want a real mad scientist to look up to, look to Dr. Jekyll, who actually takes responsibility for his inhuman actions.
I mean quote-unquote doctor Frankenstein being the real monster is literally the point of Frankenstein
Fronkenstien*
I'm like low-key dumb but come across as borderline genius to my classmates.
Ever heard of Dunning-Kruger effect?
Používaťeľ JUtUbe the one where dumb people think they’re smart?
They are confident in what little they know to the extent that they delude themselves by thinking that's all there is too it. I doubt this effect applies to Gboy
@@m1ner_va489 agreed
@@m1ner_va489 You missed the second part of it. Once you become better at the subject, you realize how much there is to learn, and underestimate how competent you are.
I’m smart. My ex wife is not. But she got most of my money...and the kids. So I guess she’s a genius.
Ha
My dad was a postal clerk in the navy, and when he was about 35 or so, he met my mom who was a computer technician during the rise of CD Roms. My dad decided computers were the future, went to school to get a certificate, got a job at Microsoft as a programmer and then joined the foreign service as an Communications Specialist, with a focus on networking. My dad had been retired when cloud storage was being commercialized and when I started to explain to him how it worked, he straight up just finished the explanation having no experience or knowledge of what it was. I work an IT customer service job and I'll often run by the issues we have so he can help me break it down to simple terms to explain to people. He also had never touched a smart phone in his life until his boss handed him one because it was acting up and my dad fixed it in 5 minutes.
I’m listening to this and realize how absolutely stupid I really am. Like, I knew I was stupid, but not as this
Same!!!! I mean, the SHAME!!!
It's not all that big of a deal really. I'm pretty intelligent in many regards, but it hasn't made me particularly successful or even happy. Some people are great at languages, music, sport of whatever. Everyone has different skills and talents. But it doesn't necessarily make you happy or give you a good life.
@@RJALEXANDER777 I'm a bit of a jack of all trades (creative wise like art, sewing etc) master of none. It's awful. I don't stand out in any specific field, I don't know where to focus to gain a profession. I'd rather be really good at one thing like numbers or something.
@@TheChgz do what makes you happy. If your mediocre at everything then don't worry about skill and prioritize happiness.
@@TheChgz // oh, same!
My teacher is so good at French she gets dreams in French
I dream in French and I'm not a French teacher. Am I a genius?
This will happen for you too if you learn another language! Just start learning - in a few months of steady work, you will probably start dreaming a bit in that language.
Being so tired that you can't remember what language you are speaking mid sentence and doing the vocal equivalent of a tied shoelace face plant.
@@anderssorenson9998 I also mix English and German for clarity for certain engineering problems. I have to explain what German article I had read from. Translations are seldom precise. I prefer watching " Das Boot " in the original German with English subtitles because of the flavor doesn't come through as well; insults and the like.
he producers were scared that movie would not work in an American market. Telling the truth by the comments before the movie shocked people a bit. It is very true 3/4 of the crews lost their lives during WWII.
I dream in English and it is my second language
I hate how a lot of the people on here think smart=school education
Being school smart is an indicator you’re likely good at problem solving in other arenas as well. Nothings black and white. Some people are smart in college, but can’t see the forest. Others just don’t work well in a school environment.
I think because mantaining good grades can mean you have great memories and also good at observing , understandment , and can figure good ways to study
@C6SSIE It just happens that I have 2 PHDs a Masters, a Bachelor's degree, and an Associate's degree, but I do agree with you, school or even a college degree does not make someone smart. I do have a bit of advice for you and I think you might like this. I have a saying that I live by, regardless of my degrees. "Never let your college or school stand in the way of your education." Please stay safe and keep healthy as you can.
Here in the states, it's often the opposite, but the teachers hate feeling inferior. The entire reason they became teachers in the first place was to feel awesome about how smart they are, to get in front of a bunch of young, impressionable kids and feel that power over them. Then they call us "anti-intellectuals" to discredit us when we point this out.
We're not anti-anything. We're pro-intellectualism, we just hate it when arrogant jerks try to claim that they're smarter than they really are.
Well, it might be. They are knowledgeable about particular subjects. They pursue knowledge.
The one whos sister memorized and calculated their groceries while he ate play dough- that got me lmao
"That's the wrong question." That reminds me of politicians.
"Dear Mr. Politician, did you or did you not illegally use tax dollars to fund your vacation? Yes or no?" - "That's not what this is all about. What you should really be asking is whether humanity is really willing to go through all the struggles it takes to accept the uncomfortable truth that there is more to society than capitalist constructs."
I'm sure some of you could give a better example but you get the idea.
I have an uncle who while doing standardized testing realized there was a pattern to the answers about halfway through. He finished before everyone and got literally every single answer right. He ended up working for nasa as well as sailing around the world three times now. He also sleep walks at times and has fallen off of many things including a second story and a boat but there was once that in his sleep he built an entire cabinet to store a single beer. Nobody would have believed him had his friend not seen it with his own two eyes
@Shawn Wheeler The test or or the cupboard?
@Shawn Wheeler Well this was a long time ago so I'm pretty sure the tests had to be graded by hand so it would make sense that there would be a pattern and he just noticed it and used it to his advantage.
And the cupboard he happened to have all the materials and honestly I have no clue how he managed it. His roommate woke up to the hammering and watched my uncle slowly shuffling around putting this cupboard together. It didn't end up sturdy but it was functional.
@Shawn Wheeler Yeah definitely! He's the smartest person I've ever met
Laura Francis
Wow, your uncle is really smart! I’m guessing he did the cupboard thing because he probably had made one before, and he was just doing in unconsciously. I have heard of people who grilled hotdogs and stuff like that when sleepwalking, so it definitely is possible.
@@muggerpugger3231 Yep! He's great at building things! He cut the boards n all intending to put it together the next day. So he knew the design he wanted beforehand and the only things that were different was that he'd used nails instead of screws, the shelves were a little wonky and it needed to be more secure. But all in all it was probably better than something I could make from scratch entirely conscious
My grandma never went to school and never learned how to read)(she grew up in a small village in the 50s) but she's got a really good memory and can learn things quickly, one time my mom and aunts were talking about one of my uncles and they spoke in English so grandma wouldn't understand, it happen couple times and she was able to pick up and understand. She can remember conversations in a dialog form and just so fascinating sometimes
woahh thats cool :O also sorry if im annoying but hiii army
We need a “time you realized your pet was smart”
We have a cat that spends half her time outside and half in. One morning I come out of the house and she was hanging out across the street. She see me and start coming and look both way before crossing.
Animals are clever.
@@johna9994 Clever girl...
My previous foster cat was incredibly clever. She easily figured out how to open different types of doors by studying humans do it. Like, she would be super focused and then repeat the same action afterwards. I've never seen anything like it and I've volunteered for different shelters for 10 years, so I know my fair share of cats.
samir hanny there was one in the vid
My old German teacher. She spoke not only German and English, but also Spanish, Russian, French, and Swiss-German. Then she said she's learning how to speak Dutch. It was pretty cool. She also has a photographic memory. My friend & I quizzed her once during lunch break, giving her 10 seconds to look at a page of my Science book and then making her say what she remembered. She got nearly everything right.
Then there was my grandfather on my dad's side. That man has a freaking PhD and bachelor's degree.
My dad didn’t go to college, had a low paying job for years making labels. He is now a consultant at a big company on label making and he makes 6figures. No degree or anything. Absolutely amazing man.
I once got called the smartest person they knew... by a classmate in college. I feel sorry for them. If I'm the smartest person you know you either don't know a lot of smart people or you base my intelligence on what I do in school.
Just because someone knows something you don't doesn't mean they're smart. Just because someone doesn't know what you think is easy or common knowledge doesn't make you smart. I know several people who can talk all day about the subject they got a degree in, but are ignorant about the simplest things.
I get a similar reaction when I tell people I have a B.S. in Chemistry. I did graduate Magna Cum Laude, but I don't normally tell them that, they're just impressed that I can pronounce chemical names like anyone else could with a little practice. People think I'm speaking an alien language when I read the ingredient list for some processed food product and reach the complicated words towards the end. When I hear people go on about all natural ingredients or "I only eat something if I can pronounce the ingredients" I point out that lead, anthrax, and feces are all natural and easy to say, whereas most essential vitamins and amino acids have long, difficult names. Also, if you don't want that bag of chips to be full of mold, you should be glad that tiny bit of sodium metabisulfite is in there.
People think im smart when im clearly not.
Don't put yourself down like that. Accept the damn compliment.
Cyn yeah people don’t understand there’s a difference between being smart and studying a lot
Oh lord... getting defensive on a compliment...
I had a friend that memorized all the countries including cities of the world there was even a time when I brought a map in school and he said it was an old map because there was one city that changed it's name and we were only grade 4 that time.
I really doubt that
Mariat Is Me ain’t too impressive
@@matiisme some people can do this, you'd be surprised how amazing humans can really be.
@@matiisme people with autism can literally do this. You must doubt lots of things
@@emotionaldistress // But every city in the world? It doesn't really sound real? Every capital would sound legit, but every city?
My brother was told by his HS teacher he could pass the AP physics test without taking the class. He did.
Dang.
I'm in regular physics and I'm already suffering?? dang but I feel dumb now
Did this on a higher scale. Skipped all year had 100+ absences. Showed up on test day and teachers told me why i would even bother to show up if i was gonna fail. Got top scores on all tests. Still got kicked out tho cuz it was the top magnet school and they couldnt have someone ruining their reputation with such shitty attendance
Julianne Briscoe meanwhile I struggle in AP physics because I have an awful teacher (great person however).
Barcode x woah what school was it? do u happen to know any schools where i can apply myself? my schools not that challenging
I have a great one if anyone has the time, I was in 8th grade and had a friend who was pretty strange (definitely some mental heath issues). I always remembered he was really good at math... like genuinely brilliant. He would solve 5 and 6 step algebra equations in his head. But his most impressive feat was on a field trip. We were out of state and a spongebob episode came on. He started to recite it... and he did.. the whole thing from memory. Next episodes, same things. Unbelievable. The kid had memorized every episode he ever watched
When I was in 10th grade I had computer science with this senior who was surprisingly intelligent. He wouldn’t study and still pass AP Calc tests. He was more interested in playing games. I asked how he was so smart and he simply stated that he payed attention in class. We also did this arm wrestling contest in class and I was the youngest beating everyone at strength and so I taught him the knowledge and he almost started beating me. I think about these smart people and I came to the conclusion that they are just like us but view life in a more simple form
When people stopped stealing my snow. They're pretty smart to not want to be chased down by me.
FIRST BIGFOOT, NOW A YETI!
its just like yeti rice, but colder
Can I steal your snow my towns having a heat wave tommorow
I have a brand new shipment getting delivered as we speak. Please take as much as you can!
@@mooseandsquirellfriend thank you! But I lost my cat in it
A little help?
There are so many patterns and factors that determine intelligence but the 2 most prevalent superficial characteristics I've seen is motivation, and observational skills. People at much lower mental capacities give in to negativity, codependency, laziness, apathy, and confusion with no direction and confidence on where their life is going. Emotional health, physical health, and hard work is key for intelligence, but unfortunately, the majority of us are already too developed to make such a *DRASTIC* lifestyle change.
I‘m negative, lazy, and apathetic and I have perfect grades in a mathematics heavy university program. Moral? General personality traits aren’t indicators for intelligence.
I've seen allot of motivated people who aren't that smart. As opossed to smart people who are motivated. So if a smart person is motivated that most likely results in succes. But succes doesn't determine how intelligent you are. That has more to do with motivation and luck.
Motivation is really the biggest thing.
It doesnt matter what you do, if you wanna do it you will find ways to do it.
@@TheTacticalMess me fo
You might be mistaking success for Intelligence here. Intelligence doesn't care how motivated, determined or emotionally stable you are. But, those traits can majorly impact your success.
Im ADHD and I got in trouble for being really good at math, I would do college algebra in 1st grade, I had been getting babysat by my aunt who was going through college. We learned algebra and anatomy together.
I could do math in my head and it pissed my math teachers off. My teachers would hand me speed tests and have me do questions in front of other students because they said I was cheating. Then accused me of still cheating when I showed them I could do it in front of them. I just dont need to write 20 levels of steps for a basic question.
This is so true
Cody Spegel I will forever be impressed by people that are good at math. I most likely have dyscalculia (have the symptoms but never got tested) and I couldn’t do basic equations for the life of me. Only reason I passed is because I learned the right answers from memory.
I can relate to some extent
@AlekzHertz Bane of my existence, only time i got a 4 in a physics exam even though every single answer was correct.
Got in trouble in Algebra for the same thing in 6th grade. I was 2 years younger and at least 1 grade below everyone in the class (got put into school when I was 4 years and 1 week old). My mom had to go in to explain to the teacher that I was currently tutoring my sister for her trigonometry class and had been tutoring her in math for 3 years...since she started algebra. I knew how to do the algebra work in my head at 7 years old, and had been doing it in my head ever since. It was difficult explaining to a teacher that I literally couldn't slow my brain down enough to even write out the steps. The best I could do was write one step and skip 5 or 6, write another step, and skip to the answer...and that process gave me migraines. He gave up and let me just write out answers after I started doing trig on his blackboard and he had to call in the HS trig teacher the next day to verify my (mostly skipped steps) work. The HS trig teacher showed up, looked at the board, looked at me, then looked at the teacher..and told him not to bother checking my algebra work if he couldn't check the equations I had put on the board.
I got that same trig teacher in HS, and he told me on the first day to just use the period for a work out period since I was a varsity football player and wrestler. He just wanted me to show up for tests and he gave me As on all the homework I never had to turn in. Nice guy, barely even learned his name.
"My sister also used to read the bedtime stories to my parents when she was around two years old."
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My dad was a genius. Dropped out of HS the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and joined the USMC. Fought in Guadalcanal,, iWo Jima, snd s couple other battles. Stayed in the usmc for 40 years went to law school without even going to college first while in USMC. Graduated top of his class and finished first in the bar test
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Went to fight in Korea two years as a E-5 fought there two years
Became an officer in 1963 tight before his first of three and a half tours in Vietnam.
Retired the highest col in the usmc and as the only member of the JAG who never went to college.
He could recite any book he ever read on the law page by page chapter by chapter
This was truly an impressive entry to read! Thanks for posting!
1:53 my mom had a teacher like that too. He broke his strong arm one time and taught himself how to write with the other, and then when it healed he began using both of them simultaneously.
same, my old music teacher used to work for the government, got ran over by an illegal alien and was paralyzed in his right arm. He learned how to use his left
I met a kid that was 13 I’m twelve and he didn’t know english and he asked me something and I asked him what he said again and in broken English he said where is the cafe and I asked you want to go to the cafe ? And in perfect English I want to go to the cafe
This kid could listen and mock it
The "broken CPU" scenario is straightforward for a computer scientist to figure out. If you wrote a deterministic program and a simple computer gives you nondeterministic answers, then either the memory is faulty or you have a bad CPU.
Or cosmic rays are flipping your RAM.
@@SlimThrull seems useful for Tick Tock Clock
@@SlimThrull You'd be pretty lucky if it repeatedly happened that much.
@@heroslippy6666 Yeah, well. If the SAME problem happened each and every time then it would be absurd to assume it was a cosmic ray flipping the same bit of RAM over and over. If it happens once, it's not a completely unreasonable hypothesis.
Yeah but this was also 1985 when MIPS first game out so unless he WAS a computer scientist in the 1970/80’s and had been working with assembly for a few years then maybe but it wasn’t as widespread knowledge as it is now.
Similar to the first one: my grandfather still gets called by farmers and agricultural extension agents about what to do with crops/plants. I knew he grew up on a farm and was in the Master Gardener program. I later found out he STARTED the program so that he wouldn't be the only one with the answers. He's been rerired almost as long as he worked and is 84, still with a half acre garden
My sister has ADD and although I knew she was bright I didn’t realise how much. She only went to school for about a month last year because of health problems. Two weeks before her final exams (last year of school so very important exams) she got her friends to send her all the maths and physics school work for the year as she was determined not to repeat the year. Got 18/20 in both. 15/20 is considered fantastic for a full years worth of school. She’s amazing.
ADD brain is really not fun sometimes but is an actual superpower for people who can direct it
This is why you teach your kids at a very young age. Homeschooling is no joke.
Both! My kids went to school knowing how to read. So did I. My mom and I both read our kids stories, pointing out the words as we went along. The kids start recognizing words first, then letter sounds. Also, math. If you don't push your kids aside, but show them how u add up bills, whatever, they suck things up like sponges. By age 31/2 or 4, they had all our back copies of National Geographics basically memorized.
I feel like you don’t even need homeschooling for this, they just need an interest in learning and you to have “big” conversations with ghem
@@hanarnanarna IKR? Take them places and let them ask questions...libraries, museums, rock formations, dam sites, gem shows, swimming pools, reptile shows, petting zoos, beach clean ups, volunteer work sites. Almost anyone's eager to share what they know with anyone who's genuinely interested.
Yeah isn’t being a parent so easy?!?!?!?!? ..........millennials
@@michaelcady1337 what the hell does this have to do with millenials, and where did you derive anything about him suggesting parenting is easy?
1:46 my philosophy. Help is “help”, not do everything.
username checks out yup if I’m helping someone on free will I will take a break if I start getting agitated
6:33- don’t teach for understanding, teach so no one will misunderstand
When he was in 10th grade, my dad drew a picture of the world map with his eyes closed. We held it over an actual map and found that all of the labelled countries and capital cities were in exactly the correct places. My mum and I were shook.
and the table clapped
I remember I took my ACT without eating and only had 2 hours of sleep, I couldn't focus and I was only thinking of wanting to sleep. I passed with flying colors. I didn't even know I hat that in me and I was certain I just failed. I started realizing that I actually never needed to study and I would just do things. I remember even spending 1 hour on an essay that everyone else spent a week on and got a 100, and outperform everyone else. This would happen again and again and so I have never really developed the work ethic I needed. Everything just clicked with me and I would just live my life how I wanted. I think this is really hurting me right now, I'm in college and I'm really struggling because I have never really needed to work, on top of ADHD.
If you are like I was in high school, please get in the habit of spending as much time as you can on your assignments so you get into the habit of doing your work, cuz if you don't you will go into college the same way I did, struggling because you don't even know how to work.
I’m starting to like Reddit
Don't get too comfy. Some subs are fine, others are downright awful.
Multorum Unum- What joke?
@Yash Pandya wait until you get to r/noahgettheboat
These reddit videos has been the one of the best parts of YoTube in 2019
SHORX yeah but they made people be all like r/woooosh hahahaha woosh see reddit I have reddit hahah woosh
I'm not very smart. More like average. My last boyfriends were pretty smart guys with photographic memory etc. The first one didn't get his life together and started abusing drugs, the other one is not content with any job.
I came to the conclusion that being smart is not always a really good thing. I came to appreciate about me that I'm interested in learning new things even though I'll never finish them or excell at them. And I read a lot of books although I won't be able to recite them word by word.
I can agree, I think it feels like being rejected by everyone in your life, because most parents tend to assume that, a smart kid is being rude when it's simply curious about everything and asks questions, so they are being rude back at the kids, really rude sometimes. After such a childhood it can't understand people or even himself and the only solve to this problem is
a good, honest, positive and understanding friend in its life, a good psychologist, or kid solving its life the hard way which can cause it to commit suicide.
Yeah that’s weird coz photographic memories haven’t ever been proven to exist.
@@aerofloyd6220 What do you mean?
"Being smart is not always a good thing" Well only if you are a criminal
xKateshi You basically described I’m a sensitive man. I was really curious as a child and when I would ask questions my parents got abusive and authority would get upset and dismissive. My peers didn’t like me for being a little smarter and serious either. I have had it really rough emotionally.
THE WORLD NEEDS MORE PEOPLE THAT EAT THE PLAY DOUGH!
Time to force-feed the toddlers Play-Doh!
No we dont
We really don't
... Crayons taste better than Playdough, so I write backwards, both hands simultaneously when I run out of clay.
I'm a person that can explain complex things simply, it's not because I'm super smart, I just dont understand something myself until I can explain it to myself in a simple way that makes sense to me.
Same
I have two sons ten and twelve. I never see them studying, the public school placed both of them in something called “ High ability courses”. They both get straight “A”’s constantly with a B on rare occasions. Any time I try too teach them about life in example dating, staying debt free, being respectful too others, they always finish my sentence and then teach me something about life, I’m 53. I reward them for the grades and excellent behavior. I remember their mother staying up late with them doing homework, and making sure we sent them too the best pre school possible. Looking back I’m thinking a good mother and pre school is the key to a child success.
My dad was once napping and my mom was listening to voicemail in the same room. One of his friends left a message, mentioning his number once. My dad woke up an hour or so later and called him. He had heard the number once while half asleep and remembered it an hour later.
when I was explaining master level math to my fellow 9 graders and my little cousin go like this:
"oh are you talking about.." and proceeds to explain what I was introducing, while all of us were dumbfounded.
(she is 4 years younger than me)
PS:I'm the one teaching her, but I didn't know she actually had comprehended all I had showed her, better than me.
PS 2: I started studying higher math because I was supposed to be the smart one In this relationship
PS 3: I gave up on competing on math and turned to programming
PS 4: she heard me talking Japanese that I learned in animes and started learning Korean on korean shows
ps 5: she learned korean, japonese, French, Spanish, english, italian, and some other language I didn't quite yet understand (by the way we are Portuguese)
Ps 6:she is now thinking about being a singer...WTF?!?!???
Ps 7: She in 2 singing groups, but it seems what she wants to study to become neurosurgeon.
This hurst
No one,
Not a single soul on this planet,
Voice:”GEEEEEEENS”
*Genes
So I was talking to a friend from my theatre club while I was doing my A level further maths homework. So I decided to try and teach her some of this stuff (to make sure I fully understood it). Now bear in mind she was 13 and she had never seen most of the terminology and notation that was being used, so my explanations were the first time she'd heard of this stuff. She picks this stuff up FAST, faster than anyone in my class of 17 year olds. So I basically just handed her my homework (this was a particularly difficult homework, because our teacher wanted to really challenge us that week), and she just breezed through it. Her writing speed was the only thing slowing down how quickly she was doing it, and she can write pretty fast. I was floored. She swears that it was just that I explain stuff really well, but there is no way that was on me. What's really sad is that she still doesn't do well in school because she's undiagnosed autistic spectrum and/ADHD, and she just can't deal with the school environment properly and her school gives her no support whatsoever.
People being smart is never a coincidence. Being smart is something you practice over and over and over until you internalize it, not something that you are.
How I over came the "studying after you've gone through a period where everything was intuitively easy for you" problem: write everything; abbreviate nothing.
Reason:
I'm really good at remembering things in context, but not out of context, pathways but not individual stops, or whole systems but not individual components.
Back end of 2017 I was taking Anatomy, Physiology, Medical Terminology, and English while working 32 hours a week with ANAT/PHYSIO class lectures back to back same day/same room/same seat. I was crushing Physio with little to no studying as I could recall the pathways and systems by memory but struggling hard in Anatomy due in large part with being completely unable to make it to any open labs and really needing extra time outside the class room lectures/labs to solidify my knowledge on individual parts as I knew that's why I was struggling.
Halfway through the term I had a very solid A in Physio and a D in Anatomy (bad lab scores).
I only had scanned pictures of the models to go on and was really struggling to make it work using a series of sticky notes with the names and trying to do a matching style of study.
Eventually I abandoned that in favor of blank spaces and manually writing every single part, groove, muscle name, etc. and making absolutely sure not to abbreviate anything. This had the benefit of causing me to instinctively begin correlating the time spent writing out a name to the location on the model.
Writing everything out long instead of abbreviating also allowed me to succeed in situations where I was asked to give abbreviations not long names, long names with no abbreviations allowed, or provide both.
This also helped me memorize how specific things acted on other things by following the nomenclature patterns that appeared within the system or pathway including root words and naming conventions for my Medical Terminology class.
EDIT: Physio slid to a high B and Anatomy ended 80.6% at a B; my Anatomy instructor cheered in her office when she did the calculations for my grade, lol.
Had an art teacher who did interactive digital art pieces, and once during a demonstration he casually just wrote code from memory. Like he just said “now we’ll make an egg” and then he just wrote a bunch of code into god knows what program and it turned into an egg. And then he wrote more and more code, making more things all from memory, like that is something anyone just randomly does.
6:50...
this is used way too often as a "you have no idea what you're talking about as you can't explain it in a way i can understand"
most of the time you have to leave out a lot of information to explain it simply, and occasionally that part of the info leads to contradicting results
This is why being a teacher has been so difficult for me. I see brilliance in all of my students. Intelligence isn’t cookie cutter and I hate the pressure put on us to put kids in a box.
the programmer who knew the cpu was broken is a pure genius
Then there's me: on thursday I was convinced that 14 + 8 equals 26...
Well, 7 x 13 = 28, so you were close...
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I can see how one would make that mistake.
@@SimonMoon5 tf did you just say
@@SimonMoon5 uhm no, they were talking about 383847479292 x 38383737
My parents told me it took about 20 days for me to learn how to read. I then proceeded to be the absolute autistic demon I was at age 5 to 7, got expelled three seperate times, still passed elementary school on time with everyone else.
#HumbleBrag
My grandpa used to speak 5 languages French ( native language) Vietnamese English Spanish and Italian and he was an electrical engineer I don't know if that's the correct term and you know what's funny my grandpa grew up poor uneducated he has troubles reading and writing growing up
My teacher was really surprised when I could read a novel (200+ pages) in an hour, write and speak in complicated, proper sentences, and do compact column method for addition and subtraction at age 4. I also am able to explain any complicated math problem in simple terms, I could easily teach a 5 year old how to do a complicated problem. I can do a problem in my head, literally just drawing the method in my head like I would on paper. (probably has something to do with my great imagination) Photographic memory is something I also have. It has always freaked out my friends that I can teach the class just as well as a teacher and correct our teacher at age 10.
And no, I'm not one of those asian kids who's parents force them to be good at everything. I'm a white girl who has never studied in my life because I hate it. My parents wouldn't care if I was worst in the class, they leave it up to me to make the choice of studying or not. I'm going to be a teacher when I'm older, so if I ever find myself struggling with something, I'm willing to do hours of studying. I've just never needed to.
thanks for flexing
@@beckyfromhr588 lol
Here are my stories of surprising people with my intelligence: (1) When I was in kindergarten, the teacher would hold up a book (mostly pictures, a little bit of writing) and would read what was written out loud. Well, I would read along out loud with her. I wasn't supposed to be able to read yet, so they made me go into first grade a year early. (2) I was in junior high and my sister was two years ahead of me in school. She was having trouble with a math problem, so my mom suggested she show it to me because maybe I could help. I was two years behind her in math and had never seen the kind of math she was doing. So I looked at the problem and said, "Well, maybe if you had a rule involving this or that..." and of course, there was exactly such a rule. So not only did I figure out how to work the problem, I figured out what kind of rule you would need in order to be able to work the problem, without having seen anything like it before.
I worked at Lowe’s in delivery. One day, we were driving down the road and I was playing Trivia Crack on my phone.
This partner of mine was a complete Neanderthal. Very big and slow. Caveman like. I was getting frustrated and asked him questions I was missing. He immediately had answers. One after another. Each one of them was right. After winning 8 games, I’m stunned. “How???” I say.
Turns out this guy went to state academic team 4 years straight and won every year.
Never knew.
11:31 The thing is, I can't focus in school either, and I don't even have ADD, so I can't imagine what it must be like for people with ADD. It seems obvious, but they do terribly in school because it is an environment unfit for humans, let alone them. They learn most where they are interested, so thats where all the learning happens, not where they're forced to sit at a desk for six hours a day listening to somebody babble on. The school system is a huge problem for everybody.
i agree, its stupid to teach things (that many times are useless) in a boring way and expect students to focus.. im convinced that most students that focus do it because of parents / peer pressure / not understanding how terrible the system is
Whenever I feel dumb whiles talking to someone I try and make them laugh. Its a tallent always works 🤙🏾🥲
This one is about me actually- I’ve always had shitty self esteem and struggle with schoolwork. However, when I got my report card back he pointed out that I have pretty high grades (As and Bs) for my last minute submissions and if that’s without effort then if I put time and effort into my schoolwork I would get A+s in every subject. Never realised how talented I really am and it felt nice :]
Tiny Turtle.
Please give me the holy fruits please.
One of my friends in college was taking an art class. One of the projects was to make something that would keep an egg breaking when dropped from a third story ledge. He got a fried IMac (circuit board fire), shot out the monitor with a BB gun, cleaned out the glass, and filled the monitor with Jello and the egg. On test day, he screamed an ancient Gaelic war cry and threw the Imac at the ground as hard as he could. The egg did not break. When you have a distribution credit you mine as well have fun.
I watched my dad who graduated high school with b’s and dropped out of college second semester because he got my mom pregnant know how the entire nations electrical infrastructure works and how to identify any type power outage, and use computer code given to open new circuits to give those people power. He’s a pretty smart guy
I"m really good at Russian grammar (I'm 15) A few days ago my dad asked me to check his 70 page paper for his university for punctuation and phrasing mistakes.Found 85.
You dad is pretty good at Russian grammar to have only 85 mistakes on 70 papers
@@airbeasty1549 yeah i agree! though he does admit to me that i'm the best with grammar in our family (which i don't agree with, since he has gone to like 5 universities) it was very fun as well)
There's a particular artist who comes to my mind. Marc "Xenoyr" Campbell, front leader of an australian band called Ne Obliviscaris, is an excellent lyrics writer. He once stated that he takes a lot of inspiration by looking at complex buldings or architectural details, like for example the windows of the Duomo in Milan. I don't know about others, but converting architecture into extremely visual and spectacular song lyrics sounds pretty genius to me.
One of my friends when we were 16 (first year of A levels) could sit there and correct our biology teacher. Not only that she would also critique her tests because the questions were sometimes worded wrong. On top of this she then revealed that in her home country, Latvia, she did something like the biological version of Mathletes and was doing university level biology at the age of 14-15, she was more health informed than the nurses at school and managed to find out what was wrong with my knee and ankle before my doctor could which was what made it all click for me. Crazy smart girl