Baseman posted:D2 posted:Prashad posted:Wolfram claims that he had trouble doing arithmetic in elementary school. I do not believe this. I think that the man was always a child genius. You just don't go from having trouble doing arithmetic in elementary school to then writing physics books in Junior high school. The man must think we are all stupid. It just does not happen in life that way.
I do not doubt him. The brain is a peculiar thing. When it gets a thing it gets it. Every one who acquires a skill reaches a time when they need no one to help them solve problems in the area.
It is the same for learning a language, you struggle and struggle and then t here it is...no translations in your head, no hesitation in speech and you stitch stories together instantly in all the languages you know.
In music it is even more pronounce, you play and play and all you try to do is imitate the musician who played t he song. Then one day you hear a tune and suddenly you want to play it, can play it but it is your way alone and that is what you do from then on.
Wolfram possibly arrived at that state earlier and much deeply than the rest of us.
D2, you muss try fuh ease into duh methadome wid some light hearted posts. Meh read when you jump in suh it dozz stimulate stress enzymes that set the tone for the rest of duh day. Don’t become like shakeabatty!
I am do not get your point. Wolfram is a genius and a man of profound importance to science. One is alway interested in what these people say. I am merely trying to emphasize that he would not have to lie about his gift.
It speaks also to a serious topic as to whether geniuses are born or come to their way of looking of the world later. He said he came to be a genius as he was not born that way and so did Einstein.
There is no future "becoming" for me. I am what I am and have been so for a very long time. I will never be a genius. There may be hope for you yet if you are not yet who you are. You can still be a genius...it can happen.