Chris Langan:The Smartest Man In The World-3

The man profiled in Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" who lacked the practical intelligence for success.

The whole premise of the book is that the story of the bootstrapping lone ranger that single handedly overcomes life's obstacles and rises to the pinnacle of life, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, is a myth.

He writes about two individuals Chris Langan and Oppenheimer. Both these men are geniuses. You probably heard of Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.

You may have never heard about Chris Langan and that is the whole point. Chris Langan was born a genius. He had taught himself how to read by the age of three. He breezed through school never having to take notes or prepare for exams like us mere mortals.

He liked academia. Where do you think he ended up. In a bar working as a bouncer! The difference between the two was that Chris Langan lacked practical intelligence. Social psychologists define practical intelligence as the ability to say the right thing at the right time to the right person. I define social intelligence as "Street Smarts". One telling example of the lack of social intelligence on the part of Chris Langan was an anecdote where he argues with the Calculus professor and is rebuffed by the professor who says that Chris Langan lacks the intelligence to appreciate mathematics

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[Adeikov]

The less why know of him the more we speculate and rumor.

[Adeikov]

He needs to communicate his ideas CTMU on video; or do more to convey himself.

[Adeikov]

He could do me a favour and write a dictionary of all the strange words use in CTMU.

[Enlightener57]

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[Enlightener57]

Church of Logic, 1984 anyone? But it all seriousness, i agree and have thought of many of the things this man has said. It is upsetting that this man's smarts cannot be used in more imortant matters.

[calin4thewin]

@plutoplatters Yeah it is easy, so is being a janitor or ticket booth guy. Now those are all decent professions and honest work, but they will NOT lead society to "putting one in charge".

So from the position of nothing more than a bouncer, he doesn't get to say "put me in charge" and be taken seriously.

He knows this, so the fact that he acts contrary to it, is a bit of a mystery to me.

Comment on that if you will :)

[Sovember]

I have to agree, this guy wants the human race to advance. There are going to be people who disagree, but in the end we need to progress.

[plutoplatters]

@calin4thewin Because it's easy. He said that already.(basically)

[iceyangstapimp]

@pinworms70 man go back to fucken europe u piece of shit. this is the indians land. u fuck ass. go back to fucken london and eat my cock bitch.

[ricefarmer]

tell this stupid fuck to shut the fuck up.. he hasn't done anything useful besides cheat on the test and get famous for it