How to Recognize a Genius When It Shows Up

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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

Have you ever been confronted with the fact that you were in over your head, or that you had no idea what you were doing, or that you thought you were more skilled at something than you actually were? At its most extreme, this is called the Dunning-Kruger effect - the fact that it is very easy to be both unskilled and unaware, and in this episode we explore how it works and where you might expect to see it your own life.

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