Intelligence 1: What makes us intelligent?
Simplifying Complexity
The Differential Calculus and the Neurotic Isaac Newton
The neurotic Isaac Newton replaced conic sections with the calculus. He didn't want anyone to know that he had discovered an easy way of doing it. The whole progress of the human species in terms of this factor of intelligence is those kinds of discoveries. And somehow our education system is going to all ask backwards, because it's about not only grappling with difficulty, but actually being a master of it manifesting it.
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