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Intelligence killed genius - Alexey Guzey
- Where did all geniuses go? They were killed by the the concept of intelligence.
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- The concept of intelligence kills this feeling. However smart you are, there is someone who is smarter than you. And if there’s someone smarter than you are, it doesn’t make sense to work on the hardest possible problems and to try to change the world - it’s the smartest person’s job.
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- The first requirement to do genius-level work is to not be afraid to do things only geniuses can do, i.e. to have the internal feeling of being better than everyone else in the world.
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- The people we traditionally consider to be smartest are those best at some sort of a general math / reasoning ability. This is not what genius is. Genius is being extremely good at a couple of things that really matter. genius is having a vision
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- don’t compare yourself to people smarter than you are. there’s always someone smarter. they’re no geniuses. they don’t have intellectual synesthesia. they don’t have a vision.
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