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036 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect

You Are Not So Smart

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How to Recognize a Genius When It Shows Up

Geniuses often don't know how special theyare, because for them, a task come easy. The film of vertigo was voted the number one film of all time by sight and sound but got mixed reviews when it came out. It literally took 50 years for the genius that was contained in vertigo to be recognized. Go back and look at he original reviews of the gettysburg address,. you'll find a lot of people w kind o go, while that was short and uninspiring - i remember reading how moby people thought moby dick was terrible, a unreadable. There is also a lot of walt whitmen stuff, people like god, it's got terrible

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