/sci/ - Science & Math

this man (chris langan) has 200 I.Q

if you check his instagram, his pictures near the bottom show that he doesn't know how to crop an image properly. how can this be? that a 200 I.Q man doesn't know how to use technology properly?

the answer is that life only gives you so much time to gain expertise in one thing. the more you focus attention on one area, the more another area atrophies due to not being used

you can try to become a jack of all trades, but this means having a shallow generalized understanding of everything, and how it all connects..without having any detail, nuance, specifics and intellectual depth

the world favors specialists compartmentalized into their own little boxes. companies take advantage of this and keep everyone walled off from each other in their own lanes, so that nobody ever finds out what the overall big picture, intent and impact of the final product is

generalized intelligence is associated with wisdom and crystallized intelligence. older people tend to have wisdom because they've seen so much stuff happen in their lives, that they've built up a repertoire with which they can INTUIT an understanding. They can look at something that has an overwhelming amount of variables to it, and take a shot in the dark that will end up being fairly accurate