How Actual Smart People Talk About Themselves

This is an article from The Atlantic… Hint: not by discussing IQ The I here is James Fallows… although I tend to agree with him. this is a companion article to my previous article on self-esteem…

If you just want to know what people who are actually smart think of themselves… talk about themselves, jump there…
by James Fallows Jan 6, 2018 Science

I’ve never met or interviewed Donald Trump, though like most of the world I feel amply exposed to his outlooks and styles of expression. So I can’t say whether, in person, he somehow conveys the edge, the sparkle, the ability to connect, the layers of meaning that we usually associate with both emotional and analytical intelligence.

But I have had the chance over the years to meet and interview a large sampling of people whom the world views the way Trump views himself. That is, according to this mornin

Can you tell when you are stupid? dull? incoherent? Or do you wait until someone points it out to you?

One of the remarkable things in the book, Flowers for Algernon, is the new awareness Charlie (Charly) has about his mental state.

When he was just a retarded person, he could see the shadow of the mental feebleness, but once he got smarter, when his mental abilities decline, he can see it directly… not only the shadow.

Once you raised your cell hydration, which translates for most people to a brain surgery similar to Charlie’s, you have a higher factual IQ. You should move to the same position as Ch

31 quotes that will give you chills…

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31 Quotes That Will GIVE YOU CHILLS
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31 Quotes That Will Give You Chills

  1. Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  2. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde
  3. Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C. Clark
  4. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein
  5. Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
  6. I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the

Should you become a client? Would I even accept you as a client?

For decades one of my sore spots was that people refused to serve me, even though I paid them.

I remember saying to myself: my money is not good enough for you? and wept.

I had no idea how I “accomplished” that… in 20/20 hindsight it is still a little spotty.

What wasn’t clear to me, never even occurred to me, how my attitude effected the service provider. My “To what degree you think of yourself:” starting point measure was, at the time, 70%. From my behavior I would have guessed it was higher.

Mainly I overrode what they said. I argued, I knew better, I acted with contempt…

What I didn’t know then is that being a service provider needs to be a win, or no service.

A customer who is not happy is a

Simplicity… Instead of asking what is the opposite, why don’t you ask a different question?

You tend to look at the world in black and white terms. This or the opposite… But often what you think is the opposite is not… My current favorite book, 46 rules of Genius, says: “Rule 24 (of Genius) “SIMPLIFY “People tend to view simplicity and complexity as opposites. But this isn’t strictly true. The …

Smart people don’t have to look… Creativity is genetic… and other bullcrap from the Tree of Knowledge

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How your health number, the number of spiritual capacities, and your earning power are connected?

So as long as you are eating the way others eat, and drinking the water everyone has access to, you are screwed. Eating and drinking on the Tree of Knowledge keeps you solidly on the level of human knowings, on the bottom of life. Continue reading → Related Posts: Increasing your cell hydration is the […]

Wrestling back the steering wheel of your life from ADD, frustration, depression, anger, and more

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The genius path to become a person with a Self

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