I worked as a power station operator in New Zealand alongside another chap who seemed a little slow and I wondered if he was a little mentally challenged, every now and then on our breaks he would answer phone calls which took up his breaktime, Turned out he was sharp as a tack mentally and he was actually a world renowned Amateur Entomologist, who was receiving phone calls from universities all over the world for his advice or opinion, and they all respected him so much they knew not to call in work time and only on breaks. Never judge a book by it's cover eh
It unfortunately took until my grandmother started losing her memory to realize her brilliance. She was a nurse in the 50s, peak 'women should be housewives' environment where she became not only a nurse, but started her own company of traveling nurses and kept it running for 40 years until it was bought out and she coasted very comfortably on the payout to this day. She was also a twice divorced mother of NINE kids, so you know, in hindsight spine of steel. Thing is, despite logically knowing all this she played dumb like the best of them--full on dumb blonde, ditzy and helpless housewife attitude who needed a man around to do anything that wasn't cooking or laundry. She did this to her own family and me as her grandchild didn't really clock on except my mom warning me not to copy her behavior and that I could do things for myself. As soon as her memory started going, she sort of forgot when she was supposed to be acting or not, and that's when it came out it WAS an act. She was BRILLIANT, but because of her environment she played literally everyone for fiddles to get her way, manipulating them to do whatever she wanted while making people think it was their idea--it works particularly well against old men still stuck in their sexist mentalities, and since she's really only using their prejudices against them it's really awesome. Now she's of an extreme age she's totally blatant in doing her helpless thing to get someone to do something and then immediately turning to whoever sitting next to her and laughing her head off that it still worked. She's so good playing 'helpless grandma' now too even if you know she's just messing with you, you still can't say no. Truly my hero lmao
Damn, not only with the lower education of those times, she started a company in harsh times as a woman with medical knowledge, but is also capable of manipulation at such a level at a high age? W grandma.
Sounds like my grandma😂😂 she's so good at playing "poor helpless old lady", but this lady isn't dumb at all she singlehandedly took care of my father and uncle after my grandpa died. Let me add that she wasn't much educated either, just smart hardworking lady. Love her❤
My 2nd grade teacher was an absolute beacon of genius. I was 7 and couldn't read at all, couldn't write my name. She kept me in the classroom for lunch for two weeks and I was reading novels on the final Friday. NOVELS. She just laminated some colored paper circles into a caterpillar board game on a piece of cardstock with phonemes on it and knew exactly how to approach the task with me. My mother accused me of faking stupidity all this time. My teacher set her straight. She is my forever hero.
I once supported a guy who was born with autism, his dad noticed that the man’s phone was no longer working so he gave him his old phone, once getting this phone he called ever single number saved on this phone (over 200 numbers) and introduced himself to the new contacts. Once his father realised this he deleted all the numbers on the phone as some of the contacts were business contacts. The next day the man I supported put every single contact back into his phone, even named them to the correct name. Every single one.
Have got to plug my mom on this one. She Cana fix ANYTHING..and I mean anything. She drew up all of the blueprints for our 4 room addition, fixed any & all broken appliances in the home. She’s 73 and still at it. She has a bandsaw in her living room bc “you never know when you’re going to need it”
Dude at my HS was the biggest stereotypical football jock you'll ever see. He was on the fb team, cheerleader girlfriend, barely passing grade, big, tall, talked loudly and everything. But he was actually extremely smart. During one of the chess club event he showed up and blitz played with five very decent players AT THE SAME TIME and proceeded to beat all of them, all because his jock buddies didn't believe he played chess and made him a $100 bet. To top it off his name was Robert, so we called him Bobby (Fischer) after that.
I had a friend in elementary school who explained wormholes to me on the way to the playground in 2nd grade. In 3rd grade, when we went around the room reading, the teacher had to tell him to slow down. Nobody else could listen as fast as he could read out loud. He was reading college level texbooks by then. In 5th grade, we had computer lab. These were Apple II computers, no hard drive back in 1988. We were supposed to use the typing software or something simple like that. He entered the operating system and started tinkering around. That year, he, another friend, and I designed a computer game. He programmed it. We used to play a game where we would make up scenarios and try to challenge each other to survive and what we'd do. He would always win. Once I started him in space with nothing. He scienced the shit out of that in a way that would make Mark Watney look like an idiot, figuring out orbital mechanics, how to survive entry to a planet, production of oxygen. It was rediculous. Today he's a Harvard neuroscientist.
When my dad was eight his grandma gave him an old broken radio to play with. He thought she wanted him to fix it, so he checked out some books on radios and taught himself how to do it. Fixed her radio at age 8. He’s an engineer now XD
talk to people who skateboard. ask them how to do an ollie. the way you find the smart person. is the people who say "slide your foot" have no idea how to explain the concept simply enough. We are not sliding our foot as an action, its an involuntary action we develop with muscle memory. so when i hear people try to explain the trick to beginners, i know how well they actually understand the concepts. it would be like teaching somebody to throw a ball. but trying to explain how to roll the ball of their fingers when thrown. like, t hats such a high level aspect and out look on how it should be done. but in all reality, people have troubles with ollies because the person on the skateboard doesnt understand what to do with their arms and shoulders and legs. nothing to do with the feet.
It's a skill, teaching is itself a skill. Just because you know something doesn't mean you can explain it well. I'm fairly good at it, partly it's about breaking stuff down into the right sized lumps, and relating those. Partly it's about each individual and how they think, and what they already know. If you can make an analogy, a _good_ one, to something they already understand, you'll get much further. You have to tailor what you're saying to the individual, and to the topic. That's one-on-one, being able to give a lecture is related, but has a lot of differences. I've never done it but it seems like it'd be a lot harder. People don't remember the way they learned things, if they did, they'd be able to teach them better. I still remember a couple of teachers at school explaining a thing really well (the area of a circle by slicing it up into little pizza-slices then making them gradually thinner), and if I was going to explain it I'd just do it that way, cos I thought it was a really simple and smart, way of doing it, and it's stuck with me. I'm also pretty good with kids, cos I remember the way I thought when I was one. You don't talk to them like they're stupid, they're often smart, they just lack knowledge cos they haven't had time to learn it yet. Kids are often much more inquisitive and faster learners than adults. Good luck with your PhD! Hopefully it doesn't turn out like Dunning and Kruger's paper, saying people are a load of dumbasses and explaining why, with proof. Depressing to know, but I suppose they cleared the issue up pretty well!
Lordy, this is my most favorite of your posts. High five to all the entrees. Love hearing how brilliant people really can be. We are surrounded by so many simpletons daily life can be frustrating. By no measure am I smart like these stores but I sure can appreciate them😊❤
I'm sorry but I have to say it. It's because he copied the video from a 3year old video- word for word- story for story. th-cam.com/video/CgrWNhb7nHU/w-d-xo.html
Heh, I've been told that I'm one of those people when it comes to auto-mechanics . Since I've been able to hunt down weird chronic problems with people's cars. Problems that not even the dealer that sells that brand of car can fix. Mostly, I just have a pretty board knowledge base of how the underlying systems work and can efficiently use the internet to find the special knowledge I need.
My grandfather was the oldest of 14 kids (Irish Catholics, early 1900s) and only went to school through 4th grade to help support his family. He was one of the smartest people I ever knew and built the house from the ground up. Taught his 4 daughters and son how to install toilets, do simple electrical work and a host of other things. He was amazing!
As someone who finds academic learning easier, I appreciate the people who who have more hands on, spatial skills. It's frustrating to hear other white collar workers put down blue collar workers. Many blue collar workers are incredibly smart.
I think the reason Feyman said that was because there's a lot of things in quantum mechanics that are either not intuitive or don't make sense. Even if you are an expert, there's till things that don't quiet add up. I think the similar thing can be said about the math topic "Calculus of Variation (COV)." I took a course that required some understanding of it and I can say right now I do not have a proper understanding of COV to do it justice right now.
Shout out to my dad who you could tell him which road you are and he'll have 4 different routes, 2 depending on traffic congestion, 1 depending on the time of the year, and 1 to evade cop stakeout. I don't even remember the last time he had to check a map for a road. He has the entire city down pat. He also has degrees in law, management, and was a prolific construction contractor. Man is a superhero straight out of a Marvel comic
My immediate family is smart in different ways, my mother is very good with cooking, she can look at a finished dish and intuitively recreate the recipe. My father is very good with mechanical problems, can fix anything that isn't alive or a computer. My brother is a ridiculous polyglot, he temporarily moved to Italy and had osmosed the language in about 2 months. Still trying to figure out what I'm good at...
I realize I’m biased, but I never miss a chance to brag on my daughter. When she was about 2 years old, she was in daycare. I came to pick her up one day and I’ll never forget what the daycare worker told me. She said that all the child proof locks on the cabinet doors had to be changed because my daughter had figured out how to open them. I was so proud 😊
We were having a garage built at the back of our house and hired a mini digger to dig the foundations. Our son wanted to 'have a go' at using the digger. Dad showed him what was needed to be done and how to work the controls. He dug out the foundations (interconnecting troughs to be filled with concrete) and he did the job perfectly. He was aged 6. He amazed us
Yes. My 3yr old operated a zero turn mower in my lap. Parked on the trailer. His mother demands to learn the excavator and almost wiped out $10,000 HVAC within seconds.
Had a Maths genius in my class. For him Maths was easy and he couldn't understand that other students didn't get it-quickly. I knew then he was very smart. He is now Professor Dr. Dr. of Mathematics and is the dean of a famous university.
It's been years since I've done this, but I used to play first board on my high school chess team, and once played the other four and our coach simultaneously, while blindfolded. I won all five games. They weren't timed or anything like a regular game would be, but... I was pretty good at visualizing the boards back then. I doubt I could manage it today.
I always imagined my dad, who had dropped out of high school, as a person who wasn’t very good with maths.but he was an outdoorsy person, so we would usually go fishing , or on nature walks and every time, I would learn something new about surviving in a swamp in Florida, or what to do first in an EMP. he would also explain his idea of a book he wanted to write and board games he wanted to create, and he was always such an insightful person that when he complimented our ideas it felt like a reward. Thanks dad :)
#1 I remembered what my professor told me long ago "If you truly understand something, you'll be able to explain it easily". It's clear that gramps was a master, able to explain things easily even to people without relevant background education.
"I've had friends who had their shit together despite all odds. They become financially responsible for their family's poor decision making" That shit hurt
My dad would buy a house with an unfinished basement and no deck, create both and then sell the house. He did this multiple times, no architects, engineers or contractors except to sign off on things being up to code. No help from vendors on measurements of items needed. Figuring out lengths, widths and amount of wood, doors, window casings, rerouting duct system... all to finish a full pine cladded basement with an apartment, kitchen, full bar with installed keg and tap system... without any wasted material at the end. He was a teacher and sports coach, blew my mind when I was old enough to understand his thoroughness.
Story 23 is YIKES doctors need to write notes in timely manner for PATIENT SAFTEY. If the patient goes to another doctor their notes are incomplete it's A NIGHTMARE.
Story 18: Cut to Sophia Vergara in modern family: "It is so frustrating to have to translate everything in my head before i say it, do you even know how smart i am in spanish?"
So I have been told multiple times by multiple people that I am a genius when it comes to color. I can't explain it, but I guess with the way my brain processes information differently due to my autisim and having horrible eyesight that couldn't be corrected to 20/20 with glasses I just learned to recognize the world around me through color. I can tell when my mom is using a different brand of hair dye through the slight shift in the shade of black her hair is. I mean I don't know if its exactly genius or even smart, but color is just something that makes sense to me.
May be a bit late to post but My dad was also someone like this. He couldn't speak proper English but he was so good in Political science( Politics and its history) that he basically taught me 2 years worth of political science in under a month to the point that if I open my old books today I could explain to someone what he taught me 4-5 years ago.
have a girl in my class that barely played chess before a few weeks ago. i was playing with some other dude over the board and she had maybe watched 4 or 5 of our games and listened to me explaining a bit about the game to someone else. Then she decided she wanted to try it out, so i played her. I kid you not i had a veeery hard time. She grasped many tactics and basic strategies in the short time she spent watching us and i barely won. now few weeks later we still play and she wins maybe 35% of our games. shes brilliant!
It's not a blanket thing that people assume heavy accents or broken english means someone is less intelligent, however it absolutely does make them much harder to work with in a group. Add in some compression for remote collaboration and a heavy accent can be a disaster. An accent isn't a permanent disability, it's something that can be worked on, there are speech training classes that anyone can take or free online guides/lessons.
We were drilling these ears on electrical junction boxes to hang them in ceiling tiles. Guy was working with called me a genius because I drilled in one side and then rotated the piece around and then drilled in the other. For each one he would drill in one side and then walk around the table. It made me feel really good about myself that he thought I did something smart lol
5:00 similarly, being good at school doesn't mean you know shit. I know people who did well in school and got into good universities but have no wits. You'd never hear anyone describe them as clever, just smart. One of them could follow orders enough to get good marks but had no depth, while another thinks that reading anything longer than four sentences (text messages included) is "too long" and that anything that doesn't make you money is a complete waste of time. He is now flunking at university actually. I also know someone who dropped out in year nine but has excellent problem-solving and logic skills, and someone who went to a bad university but is smarter than half the people at the city's good university. School smarts only indicate how well you understand and execute instructions.
My husband has family members who were told they were geniuses (they're not). They get really angry and throw things (these are women in their 60's and 70's) when they lose at any kind of game. I remember when I was a kid, in the 1960's, my dad got a phone call from Australia because someone needed his advice. He went to Brazil, France, and Sweden, among other places on business trips. Tina, Al's wife
Decided to play a game to see if I could. Had a large family in a posh restaurant, taking their orders. Went around to all eight of them. One person asked why I wasn't writing it down. We have computers for that, I said. Blew their collective mind when I served them without any notes.
My dad is one of those brilliant minds that could do a lot too. He was a carpenter as job description. However he could put a house together from start to finish on his own, this meaning foundation will be done by someone that could do it, which are large concrete poles (building regulations). But everything else from the stone work (not US) to plumbing and electricity and roofing he could do without any help. This man was so brilliant that he received job offers from all over the world, I seen mail (yes mail, the paper letter thing as we only had a computer recently and the internet was fairly new) from China, America, Australia, India, many different European countries and even from several middle eastern sheiks. All offering a lot more then he earned at that time. And I do mean he could have accepted offers that would give him a few million a month. He said no to all as he didn't want to leave his family behind, this being his brother, sisters and mother. Also he didn't think it would be fair towards me, my siblings and my mom that is simply put really dumb. My mom is one of those Karen types that thinks they are smart but really are not.
My grandparents used to always go to this Chinese restaurant with my dad and his brother back when they were kids. After a while I guess they just stopped going there for whatever reason but then my grandparents like 20 years later went back and the same waitress was still there and asked them where their boys are like holy shit
I was playing a game of Hotel with my younger brother and my second cousin. Each turn if somebody landed on another players hotel and rolled the dice, my cousin immidiatily knew what the price of the stay was. He knew what every building in each area cost and just knew what every night at every hotel cost. I have been playing Hotel for about 10 years now and still haven't memorized the prices, while he's been playing for about two years. He's also really good with math. I'd ask him any question and he can give the correct answer in less than 10 seconds. He's only 13
Damn that last one is crazy. I kinda feel the same but my dad just thinks different and I more a literary poetic type whereas he's always been into disassembling and reassembling things and find out how they work. I've been more fascinated with words since I was a kid. Wish I gravitated to both earlier on
I have a story from yesterday that flips it: I'm relatively new at my current job. I asked a coworker yesterday how to look something up on the tablets we use. He sort of showed me, but there was something very uniquely strange about this specific thing compared to every other resource we look up on the tablets. So I tried to get more information about why it was weird, and he just kept going into more and more detail about the fact that it is weird. I tried to stop him multiple times, saying, 'I don't think you understand my question'. and he just got really mad and finally said, 'Really, Mike?' all right in front of customers. and it only ended because I just gave up trying to understand wtf was going on. the real tragedy of all this, is that I work for a tutoring company. so, all of my coworkers should, ideally, be pretty good at reading a person's understanding of a topic and figuring out how to explain things to them. this guy absolutely lacks that skill. and despite his constant attempts to show off how smart he is, I know now that it's all just a show to distract from the reality.
something to note about people who assume broken English implies stupidity... those people are all monolingual. which means they're really just projecting their own inadequacies onto others. whenever you meet someone like this just ask them how their Farsi is, or how their Russian is, or whatever, and watch them break under the weight of that question.
the dude who made the hydrogen thing for his van can't be that smart if he didn't realize that shit that works will get developed by multiple people independently. sounds like he was stuck on the notion that making things work is based on the special traits of the individual who got it working... which is dumb as hell.
11:40 honestly the one thing you shouldnt do is underestimate a person with ADD/ADHD because they did bad in school. what most people dont know is that the AD of ADD/ADHD means "attention deficit" meaning they have a specific focusing problem, just because they didnt learn in school doesnt mean they arent smart it just means that they couldnt focus on that. infact a person with ADD/ADHD can learn or develop skills 4 to 8 times faster than the average person but the drawback is that it has to be something they really like or passionate about
Yup, I bet most people who fall into the category of "jack of all trades" are ADHD. It's one of those things that is actually a really good thing, but most people have been told is bad. Being able to quickly grasp enough of a concept to do a reasonably competent job of something, and be versatile is always useful. I fall into this category, and so does my oldest. When we turn our attention to something, we both demonstrate quick and reasonable competency.
@@SassyGirl822006 yes you are infact right about that but most the time people get bad images of people with ADHD is because most the time theyre trying to force them into something they have no interest in at all. the best way to utilize a ADHD person's skills in an area is to tell them stuff about it to peak there interest first, it can even be completely useless but comedic info about it but its something interesting... if its something they dont know but can arise an opportunity for them to help someone else and teach other people then i guarantee you they'll gravitate to it like moth to a light bulb
@@SassyGirl822006 i'm on the heavy side of ADHD and my personal trick to getting myself into learning stuff i might not like from the get go, is to do a little personal research on it first to see if i could develop a cool trick in that task or how i can make it as efficient as possible more than the norm just to make it fun... also verbal explanations always works best with ADHD people for tasks, also the best way to help them learn in school is the explain it to them rather than force them to read a book about it
My then 5 yr old nephew was doing what I called tens and units addition ( 23+47) I had written about a dozen sums, his taxi came before he was through all of them. He then pointed and said the answers to all of the unanswered questions. I said how did you do that. “ I talked it in my head” 😮
I've also attempted to make better solutions for my workplace but always get told "You are not paid to think" even if it's a thousand times more efficient or cheaper. I've been approached by lower management telling me those were great ideas that would save us time and money but corporate big wigs would ride on a slug if they thought it was a good idea versus a train. You can't change people's mind, so a good thing to keep in mind is to not cast pearls before swine. Don't give ideas/energy/time to people who don't understand, listen, or appreciate other ideas outside the box.
I'm a 2nd gen trucker and a trainer at work. I've had several trainee's tell me I'm a 1%er. I have all kinds of tips and tricks that makes my job easier. But I'm not a textbook trainer.
Mental chess. At seventy I checked my IQ online. Was 180 age twenty two. It, as expected, is now down to 170 but a note attached said I was outstanding at pattern recognition. With a thousand gifts, I feel I have yet left mental chess too late.
I was struggling with some book that teached me how to scan words and make a database from it then do calculations on them and presents them in charts. I was trying to program my code for 2 months and it still didn't had my desired results. A friend of mine came by read the book by just glancing over the pages it seemed and we finished the project in hours. Then i realize i could get jalous only to find out it was not about love or money i would die to be as smart as him. Cum Laude student at technical university he never did a minute of homework. His father is ceo in a large company as well.
Met a subway guy like the video game seller. I once went to a subway that I never went before. By the time the guy finished my sandwich he had me talking about my life and family. Months later I happened upon that same store, and he asked me a question related to what I had told him before. Blew my mind. I don't even remember what he said.....but I suspect he does.
A wasp got in the classroom and everyone was swatting it away. It landed on a boys face and he sat perfectly still until it flew away. This was 6th grade!!! I thought he was brave. Turned out Russell was a genius.
I used to have a really good memory until I became menopausal. Not kidding either. My doctor told me to just start writing things down. It’s frustrating to say the least.
My brother, my Wii U gamepad charger was it going to crap and I thought it was impossible to fix my brother somehow makes it work again and I call him a tech wizard, and it helps that he learned a lot from my grandpa and dad who are no longer with us. God rest their soul’s. My dad and grandpa were really good with cars and that rubbed off on my brother really smart when it comes to cars and electronics
My cousins husband , I was told he was really smart. I thought regular smart until a Christmas Party , my son recieved an electronic toy. I only found directions in German I thought " well these do me no good". My cousin's husband reads the and turns it on. I was amazed. I jokely asked him " I bet you speak 4 languages". This answer. Well actually 5. French. German, Dutch, latin and Arabic. At this funeral, I found out he was an expert witness on eletrical engineering before the Supreme Court 5 times
People say to me that I know so much about so much. This is true... I like to learn stuff. I have a mild form of autism so this helps me gather info. And I am so good to explain what I know to young and old. I dumb things down so much that even children understands the basics on a hard topic. I get mental images on the subject I want to learn to someone. I just describe that mental images. I know someone that are a introvert and don´t react so much. But once... She is a biologist so I have been talking a lot about biology and when I began to talk about human evolution she lost it... She almost swore about how much I knew. And she NEVER swear! It was a bit funny!
Okay, last story, I remember back in nineteen ninety, I worked for the city. Every morning, we would go to this restaurant called Uncle Harry's in Toronto. Six of us would order breakfast with multiple choices, as well as the next table. The owner Harry, would listen to each order, blink, and then walk away. I asked one of the guys WTF he doesn't have a notepad. He said, watch. The man would come back with every order correct, right down to whether you asked for extra sugar, or cream Man, this guy had an incredible memory like a computer, he would just blink, and the order was set in his brain. The same thing when calculating the tabs, he would just memorize the totals, and take the money from each person as they paid
My whole family is basically made of geniuses. Idk if it's genetics, more like environmental- we constantly share fun facts we find with each other, ask each other riddles, teach each other stuff about science, etc- so we all appreciate knowledge and garner it. I have 2 younger brothers, and I always knew they were brilliant, but here's some things that made me realize they were both GENIUSES: One of them memorized the full name, height, nationality, and history of every NBA player, both in feet and meters. He also knows the map of the world by heart- to the point where I once tried to show off how I can draw a map of the world pretty accurately from memory, and he started telling me I forgot some tiny islands in the Atlantic ocean. The other one memorized the FIFA statistics on more or less every player in every league available in the game, and at 10 years old could already easily hold entire conversations in English (we do not live in an English speaking country, don't speak English at home unless we have foreign visitors, and our English lessons in school aren't really good).
Okay, when I was about ten years old back in nineteen seventy-two. My late mother took me to the bank but was late and it was closed. I looked at her, and remember this was in the very early seventies, and asked her, why don't they have a machine where you can just push a few buttons, and get your money out. It was just common sense, hey, who knew?
I think a lot of people who impressed me with how smart they were were also very humble about it. I've met fitness instructors and people who were into the gym who were also the most intelligent people I've ever met and you never would have guessed. On the flip side I've met plenty of arrogant people who I can't get see their attitude to see if they are intelligent enough or not. I'm sure if I spent enough time around them I may see them for what they're worth, but many people including myself don't see arrogant people as intelligent. We just see them as an arrogant asshole. Lmao (Also I don't give arrogant assholes the time of day)
My dad literally making an entire wiring lay out for a 15 x 15 square m house on his mind and in case of renovation. He was mock by the husband of an aunt from my mom side. My dad is a cleaner supervisor who worked in constructions when he was 13 y/o. My uncle is a certified architect. Guess who has electric problems in hour and who not. If you answer our home, wrong. If you answer my uncle's house, then correct. It's almost as if my dad can disect a house with his sight and tells you what is wrong. Most of the time. Other times is trial and error to see if the problem is specific as well.
When I was doing my A Levels some of us chose to do Further Maths. But to do that you had to do the normal Maths course in a year instead of 2. Alongside learning Further Maths. At the start there were 7 of us. 2 months in, 2 people dropped out. 6 months in a third dropped out. 4 of us were able to complete the third year but one of us realising he was at the end of his tether decided to just leave it there. He got an AS level in further maths. So 3 of us went on to do the full thing. Now looking back, I probably should’ve left it there too. I was having some mental health problems at the time that made it difficult to concentrate. It had actually been happening for years but I had been able to skate by on natural talent. But what we were doing was hard enough that I couldn’t do that any more and I flopped. Got a D. But there were two other people doing it. 2 guys. One I was very good friends with. The other am acquaintance. My acquaintance worked his butt off, basically taught himself the entire course between year 1 and year 2 just so he’d be prepared. He got an A. But my close friend, he was just like me, he fucked about in class just as much as me, and he put in nowhere near the generally required amount of work. But he was able to do the course handily and also got an A. He’s now studying Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London. I was the kind of person who was able to skate by in school without putting effort in for a long time. But I’m pretty sure everyone will eventually hit that wall where you have to put effort in. And the further you skate, the more momentum you build up, the harder the splat when you hit that wall. I made it to 18 before hitting that wall and that was a bloody hard splat. I went from straight A student to a D and didn’t get into Uni. I’m worried that when my old friend eventually hits that wall that he’ll splat too hard to get back up.
I am a nerd at geography, music, art, and people and I have really good long term memory. I can recite every country and I like to learn infos about them, I can easily remember names and bdays of people I just met, I am good at maps, I can easily memorize a map of a certain place, I can easily remember song lyrics/titles, I can sing and can draw, I have a good sense when it comes to people's character/pattern of behavior and my friends and family trust my judgement. I am that quiet guy who just listens, observes, and usually knows more than I let on. No I dont brag in real life. Nobody gives a shit about what I know. I only show my skills to a few close people and they're the ones to tell me Im smart. unfortunately I was diagnosed with ADD and Social anxiety disorder so my life kinda sucks and I usually feel so dumb....
11:43 I have really bad ADHD/Mild OCD and I learned the whole alphabet by the time I was 2yrs old and I am really really skilled at Maths and Science and Sports
Its too bad the hydrogen dad stopped tinkering rather than message the team that was working on the same thing. If they learned he got almost as far as their whole team on his own in a garage i bet they would have loved to talk to him.
Can't remember what the acroynm PBIS stands for. But the scene where Mallow is in the forest after running from the resturant in anger is from SM039 at the time-stamps 7:32-7:37
Zeehumans. I'm not smart or good at anything. My memory kicked the bucket many years ago. You could say I ran out of miracles. And yes, I know what it's like when people take your money when they could easily have surpassed the amount if they lived within their means. My stepdad who recently died was deeply ashamed of that. He loved when he could give me something. Mom doesn't want anything from me anymore either. She'll lie about it, saying she gave me everything. Their bedroom was above mine, and I know she heard me cough for hours in the winter. And stop making babies up there! Her habit left her weak with a weak will. She's gotten much better. Now that my stepfather is dead, died last Sunday, we're all fearful of what will happen to her. Everyone gave her money for the kids, which was stupid. She should have gone to rehab.
11:36 have adhd can relate lol I know a shitton about stuff that nobody cares about because at some point this exact topic was my very intense hyperfocus 😅 Happened quite a lot that I suddenly had answers and explanations which nobody expected. It's so weird that a lot of times I JUST had read about it/saw videos like only weeks ago
Constantly dumb things down for people. not sure that makes one intelligent tho. Just use terms from something else they know well. Usually does the trick. :) I do it when i help people with computer related questions, be it hardware or software. For some reason it seems complicated for many.
I have all the patience in the world for broken or accented English, so long as it isn't coming from supposed "English" speakers, who are yelling that immigrants need to learn English. My response? "You first!" Learn your own language before yelling about someone else's language skills. Yep, pointing at you, fellow Southerners....
Mental chess? Surely you only need to remember the opponent's last move, then make that move on an actual chess board, and decide your next move, make it and declare it later. Not that hard to do is it.
I wouldn't exactly call mental chess 'easy'. Not only would you have to remember the opponent's previous move(s), you also have to remember where all of the other pieces are on the board, which pieces have been removed, all while calculating the next best move for you to make.
@@thistlebraaanch I think he means that it is possible that they could do the same display by only memorizing their opponent's (or their own) last move. They could then add it to some external record of previous moves (e.g. a written list or a chess board) before deciding their next move.
I wanna talk to that little bro I adore world history useless facts cool things in history most fantasy fiction anime ect I feel like we’d have such cool conversations
Sorry. Most people are idiots around me. It's like someone put an IQ level cap on everyone. It's annoying but that's ok. I have the same problem but mine is a disability and it takes me a while to think things though.
I worked as a power station operator in New Zealand alongside another chap who seemed a little slow and I wondered if he was a little mentally challenged, every now and then on our breaks he would answer phone calls which took up his breaktime, Turned out he was sharp as a tack mentally and he was actually a world renowned Amateur Entomologist, who was receiving phone calls from universities all over the world for his advice or opinion, and they all respected him so much they knew not to call in work time and only on breaks. Never judge a book by it's cover eh
It really bugs me when people get “entomology” and “etymology” mixed up.
@@2SuLLi It’s a pun.
It unfortunately took until my grandmother started losing her memory to realize her brilliance. She was a nurse in the 50s, peak 'women should be housewives' environment where she became not only a nurse, but started her own company of traveling nurses and kept it running for 40 years until it was bought out and she coasted very comfortably on the payout to this day. She was also a twice divorced mother of NINE kids, so you know, in hindsight spine of steel. Thing is, despite logically knowing all this she played dumb like the best of them--full on dumb blonde, ditzy and helpless housewife attitude who needed a man around to do anything that wasn't cooking or laundry. She did this to her own family and me as her grandchild didn't really clock on except my mom warning me not to copy her behavior and that I could do things for myself.
As soon as her memory started going, she sort of forgot when she was supposed to be acting or not, and that's when it came out it WAS an act. She was BRILLIANT, but because of her environment she played literally everyone for fiddles to get her way, manipulating them to do whatever she wanted while making people think it was their idea--it works particularly well against old men still stuck in their sexist mentalities, and since she's really only using their prejudices against them it's really awesome. Now she's of an extreme age she's totally blatant in doing her helpless thing to get someone to do something and then immediately turning to whoever sitting next to her and laughing her head off that it still worked. She's so good playing 'helpless grandma' now too even if you know she's just messing with you, you still can't say no. Truly my hero lmao
The true MVP of feminism
So her sticking it to the man included manipulating her entire family? X to doubt
It sounds like she wasn't vicious; just adapted to make the best of things. Truly a hero.
Damn, not only with the lower education of those times, she started a company in harsh times as a woman with medical knowledge, but is also capable of manipulation at such a level at a high age? W grandma.
Sounds like my grandma😂😂 she's so good at playing "poor helpless old lady", but this lady isn't dumb at all she singlehandedly took care of my father and uncle after my grandpa died. Let me add that she wasn't much educated either, just smart hardworking lady. Love her❤
My 2nd grade teacher was an absolute beacon of genius. I was 7 and couldn't read at all, couldn't write my name. She kept me in the classroom for lunch for two weeks and I was reading novels on the final Friday. NOVELS. She just laminated some colored paper circles into a caterpillar board game on a piece of cardstock with phonemes on it and knew exactly how to approach the task with me. My mother accused me of faking stupidity all this time. My teacher set her straight. She is my forever hero.
I once supported a guy who was born with autism, his dad noticed that the man’s phone was no longer working so he gave him his old phone, once getting this phone he called ever single number saved on this phone (over 200 numbers) and introduced himself to the new contacts.
Once his father realised this he deleted all the numbers on the phone as some of the contacts were business contacts.
The next day the man I supported put every single contact back into his phone, even named them to the correct name.
Every single one.
Have got to plug my mom on this one. She Cana fix ANYTHING..and I mean anything. She drew up all of the blueprints for our 4 room addition, fixed any & all broken appliances in the home. She’s 73 and still at it. She has a bandsaw in her living room bc “you never know when you’re going to need it”
Dude at my HS was the biggest stereotypical football jock you'll ever see. He was on the fb team, cheerleader girlfriend, barely passing grade, big, tall, talked loudly and everything. But he was actually extremely smart. During one of the chess club event he showed up and blitz played with five very decent players AT THE SAME TIME and proceeded to beat all of them, all because his jock buddies didn't believe he played chess and made him a $100 bet. To top it off his name was Robert, so we called him Bobby (Fischer) after that.
I had a friend in elementary school who explained wormholes to me on the way to the playground in 2nd grade. In 3rd grade, when we went around the room reading, the teacher had to tell him to slow down. Nobody else could listen as fast as he could read out loud. He was reading college level texbooks by then. In 5th grade, we had computer lab. These were Apple II computers, no hard drive back in 1988. We were supposed to use the typing software or something simple like that. He entered the operating system and started tinkering around. That year, he, another friend, and I designed a computer game. He programmed it. We used to play a game where we would make up scenarios and try to challenge each other to survive and what we'd do. He would always win. Once I started him in space with nothing. He scienced the shit out of that in a way that would make Mark Watney look like an idiot, figuring out orbital mechanics, how to survive entry to a planet, production of oxygen. It was rediculous.
Today he's a Harvard neuroscientist.
What is the name called?
Is your friend a certain “Andrew Huberman” by any chance? Hahahaha
When my dad was eight his grandma gave him an old broken radio to play with. He thought she wanted him to fix it, so he checked out some books on radios and taught himself how to do it. Fixed her radio at age 8. He’s an engineer now XD
Much more uplifting than the sudden realization that somebody's apparent intelligence is an act, and they are secretly VERY stupid.
I’m doing a PhD based on the fact that it’s hard for experts to break concepts down in a way that non-experts can understand them.!
talk to people who skateboard. ask them how to do an ollie. the way you find the smart person. is the people who say "slide your foot" have no idea how to explain the concept simply enough.
We are not sliding our foot as an action, its an involuntary action we develop with muscle memory.
so when i hear people try to explain the trick to beginners, i know how well they actually understand the concepts.
it would be like teaching somebody to throw a ball. but trying to explain how to roll the ball of their fingers when thrown. like, t hats such a high level aspect and out look on how it should be done.
but in all reality, people have troubles with ollies because the person on the skateboard doesnt understand what to do with their arms and shoulders and legs. nothing to do with the feet.
Phd=permanent head damage
It's a skill, teaching is itself a skill. Just because you know something doesn't mean you can explain it well. I'm fairly good at it, partly it's about breaking stuff down into the right sized lumps, and relating those. Partly it's about each individual and how they think, and what they already know. If you can make an analogy, a _good_ one, to something they already understand, you'll get much further. You have to tailor what you're saying to the individual, and to the topic.
That's one-on-one, being able to give a lecture is related, but has a lot of differences. I've never done it but it seems like it'd be a lot harder.
People don't remember the way they learned things, if they did, they'd be able to teach them better. I still remember a couple of teachers at school explaining a thing really well (the area of a circle by slicing it up into little pizza-slices then making them gradually thinner), and if I was going to explain it I'd just do it that way, cos I thought it was a really simple and smart, way of doing it, and it's stuck with me.
I'm also pretty good with kids, cos I remember the way I thought when I was one. You don't talk to them like they're stupid, they're often smart, they just lack knowledge cos they haven't had time to learn it yet. Kids are often much more inquisitive and faster learners than adults.
Good luck with your PhD! Hopefully it doesn't turn out like Dunning and Kruger's paper, saying people are a load of dumbasses and explaining why, with proof. Depressing to know, but I suppose they cleared the issue up pretty well!
What field are you getting a PhD in then?
Lordy, this is my most favorite of your posts. High five to all the entrees. Love hearing how brilliant people really can be. We are surrounded by so many simpletons daily life can be frustrating. By no measure am I smart like these stores but I sure can appreciate them😊❤
I'm sorry but I have to say it. It's because he copied the video from a 3year old video- word for word- story for story. th-cam.com/video/CgrWNhb7nHU/w-d-xo.html
Heh, I've been told that I'm one of those people when it comes to auto-mechanics . Since I've been able to hunt down weird chronic problems with people's cars. Problems that not even the dealer that sells that brand of car can fix. Mostly, I just have a pretty board knowledge base of how the underlying systems work and can efficiently use the internet to find the special knowledge I need.
Resourcefulness beats smart EVERY TIME.
My grandfather was the oldest of 14 kids (Irish Catholics, early 1900s) and only went to school through 4th grade to help support his family. He was one of the smartest people I ever knew and built the house from the ground up. Taught his 4 daughters and son how to install toilets, do simple electrical work and a host of other things. He was amazing!
As someone who finds academic learning easier, I appreciate the people who who have more hands on, spatial skills. It's frustrating to hear other white collar workers put down blue collar workers. Many blue collar workers are incredibly smart.
6:32 Richard Feynman's supposedly said “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”
I think the reason Feyman said that was because there's a lot of things in quantum mechanics that are either not intuitive or don't make sense. Even if you are an expert, there's till things that don't quiet add up. I think the similar thing can be said about the math topic "Calculus of Variation (COV)." I took a course that required some understanding of it and I can say right now I do not have a proper understanding of COV to do it justice right now.
Shout out to my dad who you could tell him which road you are and he'll have 4 different routes, 2 depending on traffic congestion, 1 depending on the time of the year, and 1 to evade cop stakeout. I don't even remember the last time he had to check a map for a road. He has the entire city down pat. He also has degrees in law, management, and was a prolific construction contractor. Man is a superhero straight out of a Marvel comic
My immediate family is smart in different ways, my mother is very good with cooking, she can look at a finished dish and intuitively recreate the recipe. My father is very good with mechanical problems, can fix anything that isn't alive or a computer. My brother is a ridiculous polyglot, he temporarily moved to Italy and had osmosed the language in about 2 months. Still trying to figure out what I'm good at...
I realize I’m biased, but I never miss a chance to brag on my daughter. When she was about 2 years old, she was in daycare. I came to pick her up one day and I’ll never forget what the daycare worker told me. She said that all the child proof locks on the cabinet doors had to be changed because my daughter had figured out how to open them. I was so proud 😊
We were having a garage built at the back of our house and hired a mini digger to dig the foundations. Our son wanted to 'have a go' at using the digger. Dad showed him what was needed to be done and how to work the controls. He dug out the foundations (interconnecting troughs to be filled with concrete) and he did the job perfectly. He was aged 6. He amazed us
Yes. My 3yr old operated a zero turn mower in my lap. Parked on the trailer. His mother demands to learn the excavator and almost wiped out $10,000 HVAC within seconds.
Had a Maths genius in my class.
For him Maths was easy and he couldn't understand that other students didn't get it-quickly.
I knew then he was very smart.
He is now Professor Dr. Dr. of Mathematics and is the dean of a famous university.
It's been years since I've done this, but I used to play first board on my high school chess team, and once played the other four and our coach simultaneously, while blindfolded. I won all five games. They weren't timed or anything like a regular game would be, but... I was pretty good at visualizing the boards back then. I doubt I could manage it today.
I always imagined my dad, who had dropped out of high school, as a person who wasn’t very good with maths.but he was an outdoorsy person, so we would usually go fishing , or on nature walks and every time, I would learn something new about surviving in a swamp in Florida, or what to do first in an EMP. he would also explain his idea of a book he wanted to write and board games he wanted to create, and he was always such an insightful person that when he complimented our ideas it felt like a reward. Thanks dad :)
#1 I remembered what my professor told me long ago "If you truly understand something, you'll be able to explain it easily". It's clear that gramps was a master, able to explain things easily even to people without relevant background education.
"I've had friends who had their shit together despite all odds. They become financially responsible for their family's poor decision making"
That shit hurt
My dad would buy a house with an unfinished basement and no deck, create both and then sell the house. He did this multiple times, no architects, engineers or contractors except to sign off on things being up to code. No help from vendors on measurements of items needed. Figuring out lengths, widths and amount of wood, doors, window casings, rerouting duct system... all to finish a full pine cladded basement with an apartment, kitchen, full bar with installed keg and tap system... without any wasted material at the end. He was a teacher and sports coach, blew my mind when I was old enough to understand his thoroughness.
Story 23 is YIKES doctors need to write notes in timely manner for PATIENT SAFTEY. If the patient goes to another doctor their notes are incomplete it's A NIGHTMARE.
Story 18: Cut to Sophia Vergara in modern family: "It is so frustrating to have to translate everything in my head before i say it, do you even know how smart i am in spanish?"
"Elevating complexity to simplicity" without being reductionist is the real trick...
So I have been told multiple times by multiple people that I am a genius when it comes to color. I can't explain it, but I guess with the way my brain processes information differently due to my autisim and having horrible eyesight that couldn't be corrected to 20/20 with glasses I just learned to recognize the world around me through color. I can tell when my mom is using a different brand of hair dye through the slight shift in the shade of black her hair is. I mean I don't know if its exactly genius or even smart, but color is just something that makes sense to me.
2:25 when people would rather come up with some plan rather than just saying no
May be a bit late to post but My dad was also someone like this. He couldn't speak proper English but he was so good in Political science( Politics and its history) that he basically taught me 2 years worth of political science in under a month to the point that if I open my old books today I could explain to someone what he taught me 4-5 years ago.
have a girl in my class that barely played chess before a few weeks ago. i was playing with some other dude over the board and she had maybe watched 4 or 5 of our games and listened to me explaining a bit about the game to someone else. Then she decided she wanted to try it out, so i played her. I kid you not i had a veeery hard time. She grasped many tactics and basic strategies in the short time she spent watching us and i barely won. now few weeks later we still play and she wins maybe 35% of our games. shes brilliant!
It's not a blanket thing that people assume heavy accents or broken english means someone is less intelligent, however it absolutely does make them much harder to work with in a group. Add in some compression for remote collaboration and a heavy accent can be a disaster. An accent isn't a permanent disability, it's something that can be worked on, there are speech training classes that anyone can take or free online guides/lessons.
We were drilling these ears on electrical junction boxes to hang them in ceiling tiles.
Guy was working with called me a genius because I drilled in one side and then rotated the piece around and then drilled in the other.
For each one he would drill in one side and then walk around the table.
It made me feel really good about myself that he thought I did something smart lol
I once solved one of those toothpick puzzles in 2 seconds and my brother was utterly amazed as if I was Einstein or something. Does that count?
5:00 similarly, being good at school doesn't mean you know shit. I know people who did well in school and got into good universities but have no wits. You'd never hear anyone describe them as clever, just smart. One of them could follow orders enough to get good marks but had no depth, while another thinks that reading anything longer than four sentences (text messages included) is "too long" and that anything that doesn't make you money is a complete waste of time. He is now flunking at university actually. I also know someone who dropped out in year nine but has excellent problem-solving and logic skills, and someone who went to a bad university but is smarter than half the people at the city's good university. School smarts only indicate how well you understand and execute instructions.
My husband has family members who were told they were geniuses (they're not). They get really angry and throw things (these are women in their 60's and 70's)
when they lose at any kind of game. I remember when I was a kid, in the 1960's, my dad got a phone call from Australia because someone needed his advice.
He went to Brazil, France, and Sweden, among other places on business trips. Tina, Al's wife
Decided to play a game to see if I could. Had a large family in a posh restaurant, taking their orders. Went around to all eight of them. One person asked why I wasn't writing it down. We have computers for that, I said. Blew their collective mind when I served them without any notes.
My dad is one of those brilliant minds that could do a lot too. He was a carpenter as job description. However he could put a house together from start to finish on his own, this meaning foundation will be done by someone that could do it, which are large concrete poles (building regulations). But everything else from the stone work (not US) to plumbing and electricity and roofing he could do without any help. This man was so brilliant that he received job offers from all over the world, I seen mail (yes mail, the paper letter thing as we only had a computer recently and the internet was fairly new) from China, America, Australia, India, many different European countries and even from several middle eastern sheiks. All offering a lot more then he earned at that time. And I do mean he could have accepted offers that would give him a few million a month. He said no to all as he didn't want to leave his family behind, this being his brother, sisters and mother. Also he didn't think it would be fair towards me, my siblings and my mom that is simply put really dumb. My mom is one of those Karen types that thinks they are smart but really are not.
It usually involves them shutting up and just letting other people destroy themselves.
My grandparents used to always go to this Chinese restaurant with my dad and his brother back when they were kids. After a while I guess they just stopped going there for whatever reason but then my grandparents like 20 years later went back and the same waitress was still there and asked them where their boys are like holy shit
I was playing a game of Hotel with my younger brother and my second cousin. Each turn if somebody landed on another players hotel and rolled the dice, my cousin immidiatily knew what the price of the stay was. He knew what every building in each area cost and just knew what every night at every hotel cost. I have been playing Hotel for about 10 years now and still haven't memorized the prices, while he's been playing for about two years. He's also really good with math. I'd ask him any question and he can give the correct answer in less than 10 seconds. He's only 13
Damn that last one is crazy. I kinda feel the same but my dad just thinks different and I more a literary poetic type whereas he's always been into disassembling and reassembling things and find out how they work. I've been more fascinated with words since I was a kid. Wish I gravitated to both earlier on
I have a story from yesterday that flips it:
I'm relatively new at my current job. I asked a coworker yesterday how to look something up on the tablets we use. He sort of showed me, but there was something very uniquely strange about this specific thing compared to every other resource we look up on the tablets. So I tried to get more information about why it was weird, and he just kept going into more and more detail about the fact that it is weird. I tried to stop him multiple times, saying, 'I don't think you understand my question'. and he just got really mad and finally said, 'Really, Mike?' all right in front of customers. and it only ended because I just gave up trying to understand wtf was going on.
the real tragedy of all this, is that I work for a tutoring company. so, all of my coworkers should, ideally, be pretty good at reading a person's understanding of a topic and figuring out how to explain things to them. this guy absolutely lacks that skill. and despite his constant attempts to show off how smart he is, I know now that it's all just a show to distract from the reality.
something to note about people who assume broken English implies stupidity... those people are all monolingual. which means they're really just projecting their own inadequacies onto others. whenever you meet someone like this just ask them how their Farsi is, or how their Russian is, or whatever, and watch them break under the weight of that question.
the dude who made the hydrogen thing for his van can't be that smart if he didn't realize that shit that works will get developed by multiple people independently.
sounds like he was stuck on the notion that making things work is based on the special traits of the individual who got it working... which is dumb as hell.
They pointed out how smart I was when other people were listening.
11:40 honestly the one thing you shouldnt do is underestimate a person with ADD/ADHD because they did bad in school. what most people dont know is that the AD of ADD/ADHD means "attention deficit" meaning they have a specific focusing problem, just because they didnt learn in school doesnt mean they arent smart it just means that they couldnt focus on that. infact a person with ADD/ADHD can learn or develop skills 4 to 8 times faster than the average person but the drawback is that it has to be something they really like or passionate about
Yup, I bet most people who fall into the category of "jack of all trades" are ADHD. It's one of those things that is actually a really good thing, but most people have been told is bad. Being able to quickly grasp enough of a concept to do a reasonably competent job of something, and be versatile is always useful.
I fall into this category, and so does my oldest. When we turn our attention to something, we both demonstrate quick and reasonable competency.
@@SassyGirl822006 yes you are infact right about that but most the time people get bad images of people with ADHD is because most the time theyre trying to force them into something they have no interest in at all. the best way to utilize a ADHD person's skills in an area is to tell them stuff about it to peak there interest first, it can even be completely useless but comedic info about it but its something interesting... if its something they dont know but can arise an opportunity for them to help someone else and teach other people then i guarantee you they'll gravitate to it like moth to a light bulb
@@SassyGirl822006 i'm on the heavy side of ADHD and my personal trick to getting myself into learning stuff i might not like from the get go, is to do a little personal research on it first to see if i could develop a cool trick in that task or how i can make it as efficient as possible more than the norm just to make it fun... also verbal explanations always works best with ADHD people for tasks, also the best way to help them learn in school is the explain it to them rather than force them to read a book about it
I truly enjoy your narrative.
It's not his narrative, he stole his script from this video- th-cam.com/video/CgrWNhb7nHU/w-d-xo.html
Guess he's not very smart 🤷♂
My then 5 yr old nephew was doing what I called tens and units addition ( 23+47) I had written about a dozen sums, his taxi came before he was through all of them. He then pointed and said the answers to all of the unanswered questions. I said how did you do that. “ I talked it in my head” 😮
I've also attempted to make better solutions for my workplace but always get told "You are not paid to think" even if it's a thousand times more efficient or cheaper. I've been approached by lower management telling me those were great ideas that would save us time and money but corporate big wigs would ride on a slug if they thought it was a good idea versus a train. You can't change people's mind, so a good thing to keep in mind is to not cast pearls before swine. Don't give ideas/energy/time to people who don't understand, listen, or appreciate other ideas outside the box.
I'm a 2nd gen trucker and a trainer at work. I've had several trainee's tell me I'm a 1%er. I have all kinds of tips and tricks that makes my job easier.
But I'm not a textbook trainer.
Mental chess. At seventy I checked my IQ online. Was 180 age twenty two. It, as expected, is now down to 170 but a note attached said I was outstanding at pattern recognition. With a thousand gifts, I feel I have yet left mental chess too late.
I was struggling with some book that teached me how to scan words and make a database from it then do calculations on them and presents them in charts. I was trying to program my code for 2 months and it still didn't had my desired results. A friend of mine came by read the book by just glancing over the pages it seemed and we finished the project in hours. Then i realize i could get jalous only to find out it was not about love or money i would die to be as smart as him. Cum Laude student at technical university he never did a minute of homework. His father is ceo in a large company as well.
That game in VR would be awesome.
Met a subway guy like the video game seller. I once went to a subway that I never went before. By the time the guy finished my sandwich he had me talking about my life and family. Months later I happened upon that same store, and he asked me a question related to what I had told him before. Blew my mind. I don't even remember what he said.....but I suspect he does.
The mention of Denmark has summoned me 😂
A wasp got in the classroom and everyone was swatting it away. It landed on a boys face and he sat perfectly still until it flew away. This was 6th grade!!! I thought he was brave. Turned out Russell was a genius.
I used to have a really good memory until I became menopausal. Not kidding either. My doctor told me to just start writing things down. It’s frustrating to say the least.
I have not been exposed to others long enough to come to the conclusion if they are intelligent or not.
My brother, my Wii U gamepad charger was it going to crap and I thought it was impossible to fix my brother somehow makes it work again and I call him a tech wizard, and it helps that he learned a lot from my grandpa and dad who are no longer with us. God rest their soul’s. My dad and grandpa were really good with cars and that rubbed off on my brother really smart when it comes to cars and electronics
You should change the text color when it's your voice so it's easier to know what is part of the story and what is just your commentary.
My cousins husband , I was told he was really smart. I thought regular smart until a Christmas Party , my son recieved an electronic toy. I only found directions in German
I thought " well these do me no good". My cousin's husband reads the and turns it on. I was amazed. I jokely asked him " I bet you speak 4 languages". This answer. Well actually 5. French. German, Dutch, latin and Arabic.
At this funeral, I found out he was an expert witness on eletrical engineering before the Supreme Court 5 times
People say to me that I know so much about so much. This is true... I like to learn stuff. I have a mild form of autism so this helps me gather info. And I am so good to explain what I know to young and old. I dumb things down so much that even children understands the basics on a hard topic. I get mental images on the subject I want to learn to someone. I just describe that mental images. I know someone that are a introvert and don´t react so much. But once... She is a biologist so I have been talking a lot about biology and when I began to talk about human evolution she lost it... She almost swore about how much I knew. And she NEVER swear! It was a bit funny!
I know whats wrong with it! It aint got no gas in it!
Okay, last story, I remember back in nineteen ninety, I worked for the city. Every morning, we would go to this restaurant called Uncle Harry's in Toronto. Six of us would order breakfast with multiple choices, as well as the next table. The owner Harry, would listen to each order, blink, and then walk away. I asked one of the guys WTF he doesn't have a notepad. He said, watch. The man would come back with every order correct, right down to whether you asked for extra sugar, or cream Man, this guy had an incredible memory like a computer, he would just blink, and the order was set in his brain. The same thing when calculating the tabs, he would just memorize the totals, and take the money from each person as they paid
My whole family is basically made of geniuses. Idk if it's genetics, more like environmental- we constantly share fun facts we find with each other, ask each other riddles, teach each other stuff about science, etc- so we all appreciate knowledge and garner it.
I have 2 younger brothers, and I always knew they were brilliant, but here's some things that made me realize they were both GENIUSES:
One of them memorized the full name, height, nationality, and history of every NBA player, both in feet and meters. He also knows the map of the world by heart- to the point where I once tried to show off how I can draw a map of the world pretty accurately from memory, and he started telling me I forgot some tiny islands in the Atlantic ocean.
The other one memorized the FIFA statistics on more or less every player in every league available in the game, and at 10 years old could already easily hold entire conversations in English (we do not live in an English speaking country, don't speak English at home unless we have foreign visitors, and our English lessons in school aren't really good).
Okay, when I was about ten years old back in nineteen seventy-two. My late mother took me to the bank but was late and it was closed. I looked at her, and remember this was in the very early seventies, and asked her, why don't they have a machine where you can just push a few buttons, and get your money out. It was just common sense, hey, who knew?
I think a lot of people who impressed me with how smart they were were also very humble about it. I've met fitness instructors and people who were into the gym who were also the most intelligent people I've ever met and you never would have guessed.
On the flip side I've met plenty of arrogant people who I can't get see their attitude to see if they are intelligent enough or not. I'm sure if I spent enough time around them I may see them for what they're worth, but many people including myself don't see arrogant people as intelligent. We just see them as an arrogant asshole. Lmao (Also I don't give arrogant assholes the time of day)
My dad literally making an entire wiring lay out for a 15 x 15 square m house on his mind and in case of renovation. He was mock by the husband of an aunt from my mom side.
My dad is a cleaner supervisor who worked in constructions when he was 13 y/o. My uncle is a certified architect.
Guess who has electric problems in hour and who not.
If you answer our home, wrong. If you answer my uncle's house, then correct.
It's almost as if my dad can disect a house with his sight and tells you what is wrong. Most of the time. Other times is trial and error to see if the problem is specific as well.
I guess I'm old, 'cuz when the guy whose ADHD brother was getting Jeopardy questions right said "A scene from--" I was expecting "Rain Man".
i swear, the old chinese guy always does the smartest things possible while looking as dorky as possible at the same time
having a good memory doesn't make you a genius
When I was doing my A Levels some of us chose to do Further Maths. But to do that you had to do the normal Maths course in a year instead of 2. Alongside learning Further Maths.
At the start there were 7 of us. 2 months in, 2 people dropped out. 6 months in a third dropped out. 4 of us were able to complete the third year but one of us realising he was at the end of his tether decided to just leave it there. He got an AS level in further maths.
So 3 of us went on to do the full thing. Now looking back, I probably should’ve left it there too. I was having some mental health problems at the time that made it difficult to concentrate. It had actually been happening for years but I had been able to skate by on natural talent. But what we were doing was hard enough that I couldn’t do that any more and I flopped. Got a D.
But there were two other people doing it. 2 guys. One I was very good friends with. The other am acquaintance. My acquaintance worked his butt off, basically taught himself the entire course between year 1 and year 2 just so he’d be prepared. He got an A.
But my close friend, he was just like me, he fucked about in class just as much as me, and he put in nowhere near the generally required amount of work. But he was able to do the course handily and also got an A.
He’s now studying Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London.
I was the kind of person who was able to skate by in school without putting effort in for a long time. But I’m pretty sure everyone will eventually hit that wall where you have to put effort in. And the further you skate, the more momentum you build up, the harder the splat when you hit that wall. I made it to 18 before hitting that wall and that was a bloody hard splat. I went from straight A student to a D and didn’t get into Uni. I’m worried that when my old friend eventually hits that wall that he’ll splat too hard to get back up.
3:24 so "literally" doesn't literally mean literally anymore? And when it does, what do you say since you now stole the word?
5:53 😂😂
I am a nerd at geography, music, art, and people and I have really good long term memory. I can recite every country and I like to learn infos about them, I can easily remember names and bdays of people I just met, I am good at maps, I can easily memorize a map of a certain place, I can easily remember song lyrics/titles, I can sing and can draw, I have a good sense when it comes to people's character/pattern of behavior and my friends and family trust my judgement. I am that quiet guy who just listens, observes, and usually knows more than I let on.
No I dont brag in real life. Nobody gives a shit about what I know. I only show my skills to a few close people and they're the ones to tell me Im smart.
unfortunately I was diagnosed with ADD and Social anxiety disorder so my life kinda sucks and I usually feel so dumb....
Can we just take a moment to see how cool that fk game is?
11:43 I have really bad ADHD/Mild OCD and I learned the whole alphabet by the time I was 2yrs old and I am really really skilled at Maths and Science and Sports
and here I sit, with a memory worse than any fish :/
Its too bad the hydrogen dad stopped tinkering rather than message the team that was working on the same thing. If they learned he got almost as far as their whole team on his own in a garage i bet they would have loved to talk to him.
1:35 Publish publicly? Various variables?
Can't remember what the acroynm PBIS stands for.
But the scene where Mallow is in the forest after running from the resturant in anger is from SM039 at the time-stamps 7:32-7:37
Not procrastinate
If someone can carry out an intelligent conversation, spell words correctly, and have a witty sense of humour
I am like the adopted brother who is an L.O.T.R. fan like me and is good at world history like me.The only thing is I do not have photographic memory.
Zeehumans. I'm not smart or good at anything. My memory kicked the bucket many years ago. You could say I ran out of miracles. And yes, I know what it's like when people take your money when they could easily have surpassed the amount if they lived within their means. My stepdad who recently died was deeply ashamed of that. He loved when he could give me something. Mom doesn't want anything from me anymore either. She'll lie about it, saying she gave me everything. Their bedroom was above mine, and I know she heard me cough for hours in the winter. And stop making babies up there! Her habit left her weak with a weak will. She's gotten much better. Now that my stepfather is dead, died last Sunday, we're all fearful of what will happen to her. Everyone gave her money for the kids, which was stupid. She should have gone to rehab.
Some of these are not a reflection of “very smart.”
11:36 have adhd can relate lol I know a shitton about stuff that nobody cares about because at some point this exact topic was my very intense hyperfocus 😅
Happened quite a lot that I suddenly had answers and explanations which nobody expected. It's so weird that a lot of times I JUST had read about it/saw videos like only weeks ago
Lol congrats ayden
dam a new thing for me to watch
Constantly dumb things down for people. not sure that makes one intelligent tho. Just use terms from something else they know well. Usually does the trick. :)
I do it when i help people with computer related questions, be it hardware or software. For some reason it seems complicated for many.
I have all the patience in the world for broken or accented English, so long as it isn't coming from supposed "English" speakers, who are yelling that immigrants need to learn English. My response? "You first!" Learn your own language before yelling about someone else's language skills.
Yep, pointing at you, fellow Southerners....
Mental chess? Surely you only need to remember the opponent's last move, then make that move on an actual chess board, and decide your next move, make it and declare it later. Not that hard to do is it.
I wouldn't exactly call mental chess 'easy'. Not only would you have to remember the opponent's previous move(s), you also have to remember where all of the other pieces are on the board, which pieces have been removed, all while calculating the next best move for you to make.
@@thistlebraaanch I think he means that it is possible that they could do the same display by only memorizing their opponent's (or their own) last move. They could then add it to some external record of previous moves (e.g. a written list or a chess board) before deciding their next move.
@Ayden Feltner ok
bruh this guy traveled in time to the future
what is this game and the snowboard game you play all the time?
mental chess isn't that hard
6:30 I can easily "dumb down" things for people to understand and I'm also 18.
I wanna talk to that little bro I adore world history useless facts cool things in history most fantasy fiction anime ect I feel like we’d have such cool conversations
Hopefully, this video teaches you that intelligence comes in all forms shapes and sizes🤷🏿♂️
Sorry. Most people are idiots around me. It's like someone put an IQ level cap on everyone. It's annoying but that's ok. I have the same problem but mine is a disability and it takes me a while to think things though.
I'm the same way didn't do great in school but I have a 187 I.Q.