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The gurus never took an EE course.
PartialDischarge:
--- Quote from: ataradov on August 23, 2022, 06:26:42 am ---And I also don't see anything special about AoE. It is an ok enough book,.
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An ok enough book? Arguably the best book in electronics with 3 editions + the X chapters with advanced contents not seen anywhere and you don’t see anything special? My main conclusion is that your electronics level is very low, so that you can’t even appreciate it enough.
Let us know when you do something similar in whatever field or work yours is
E-Design:
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--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 23, 2022, 07:50:00 pm ---Never looked into mensa, but had heard of it. Only recently it came to the table that a new friend of ours took a test many many years ago and is a member. He is not dumb but believes in a lot of conspiracies which makes me doubt his abilities.
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From what I've seen, there doesn't seem to be a lot of correlation between intelligence and what sort of stuff a person believes in. There seems to be a portion of the brain that is dedicated to religion and other similar beliefs that appear to utilize a similar mechanism, that is separate from the other parts. I have known a number of people who I would consider to be highly intelligent who never the less hold what I see as some very strange and irrational beliefs.
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James, yes! what you say here has really boggled my mind over the years.. I have known and continue to collaborate with several people who I find naturally quite brilliant, creative and darn good problem solvers overall.. yet on occasion, I will come to learn about something they hold to be true that is completely irrational to me and I am frankly stunned that this kind of person can hold such a belief / theory etc..Now, I consider myself to be very non judgmental but I find it quite difficult on these occasions.. I feel like irrational beliefs have somehow poisoned their mind... and I am not talking about stuff that is generally debatable.. what a maddening situation this can be! say it aint so....
Kjelt:
For me genius is a born gift to excel in some domain.
Where others need 10000 hours of study and work to accomplish a certain level the genius will do this in less than 1000 hours and could do it at a younger age.
In the current society having such a born gift can even work against you since the people around you where you have to interact with every day are unable to follow your train of thought, your interests etc. which results in isolation from the group. Luckily there now special schools but still my guess is that 80+ percent of born geniusses never will pop up, be it from a lack of exposure to the field where they could excel in (say a family where no-one ever played a musical instrument so a genius musical gifted child will not be exposed to this possibility) or where they will act normal to fit in.
Jester:
I have never taken an IQ test, did graduate EE in a year less than average. I imagine I’m much closer to average than exceptional. My wife is truly exceptional, she was reading the newspaper at 4, skipped so many grades that her parents stopped it at some point because there was such a huge gap in age between her and her classmates, pretty much always received 100% on every school test and assignment, usually read a non related book in class while the lecture was going on. Attended private school for free just because they wanted her in the school. Graduated high school very early and then medical school etc. etc. photographic memory, speaks quite a few languages. Both of our kids must have inherited from her side;-)
We play board games from time to time, the type that rely on strategy, my daughter wins more often than not, from an early age she would say “poor daddy” , she could “count cards” when she was a few years old.
I agree with the learning 10x faster comment above. From observing my wife two things become obvious:
1) ability to extract the facts and salient points while throwing away the noise when receiving a lot of info.
2) ability to instantaneously detect incongruous details when flooded with a lot of information quickly.
One really quirky thing about my wife is that she really has no sense of direction (right vs. left ), even though she does have a good sense of direction in the sense of not getting lost or finding a place. I know that sounds contradictory. If we’re driving and I say turn right I need to point or there is a 50% chance we’re going to turn left.
coppercone2:
or being in a company that works with tons of EE and test equipment for years was a education. Jim Williams worked in MIT.
The only thing he missed out on were poorly scheduled math tests. Back in those days the programming/computer focus was rare
If you ever worked in a university you will know its hard to stay away from topics that are relevant to the university if you have any kind of social behavior, there are so many eager people to repeat segments of lectures, proud of what they managed to put away into their minds, etc. Information diffuses in those areas. Only a job that is super compartmentalized (i.e. closet behind boiler room) would be spared from this.
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