Difference
The intolerance of genius
Quote: One of the reasons, today, that we have such mediocre progress on important issues, is the unwillingness to put up with geniuses who don’t have “soft skills”, aka. who don’t play well with others.
From the comments, Mr. Welsh writes, The key point of the article was simple this: numerous smart people can’t do what one genius can. While I’m not a genius (I’m a near genius, or a poor-man’s genius, as a friend and I refer to people at our level), my recent loss and partial regaining of mental ability confirmed this for me: while stupid, I could not “power through”. When I regained some level of ability, the solutions to problems I could not solve for 2 years became obvious, even trivial.
And in the comments was linked He got 1%, we can't hire him, which is about discrimination when HR gets involved in a technical decision.
Which led to this comment:
da Commented on Aug 28 2013 at 8:01 PM
When you take a psychometric test, always remember that you're not supposed to be more ntelligent than the person who created the test.
Man, I heard that loud and clear from outer space, as the saying goes. And the most ridiculous places are requiring these tests, which if you're different from the "standard", you have to suppress your natural responses in order to pass. This is difficult for a lot of us, and this sort of suppression can in fact lead to psychological distress and eventually, if excessive, will lead to the sort of rat-race sociopathic behavior where you'll say anything and do anything to get just enough ahead that the bosses don't throw you out on your ass in the next round of layoffs.
Which is a polite way of saying "Don't play politics in the office." Unfortunately the people who should be paying attention to that are busy playing politics.
Quote: One of the reasons, today, that we have such mediocre progress on important issues, is the unwillingness to put up with geniuses who don’t have “soft skills”, aka. who don’t play well with others.
From the comments, Mr. Welsh writes, The key point of the article was simple this: numerous smart people can’t do what one genius can. While I’m not a genius (I’m a near genius, or a poor-man’s genius, as a friend and I refer to people at our level), my recent loss and partial regaining of mental ability confirmed this for me: while stupid, I could not “power through”. When I regained some level of ability, the solutions to problems I could not solve for 2 years became obvious, even trivial.
And in the comments was linked He got 1%, we can't hire him, which is about discrimination when HR gets involved in a technical decision.
Which led to this comment:
da Commented on Aug 28 2013 at 8:01 PM
When you take a psychometric test, always remember that you're not supposed to be more ntelligent than the person who created the test.
Man, I heard that loud and clear from outer space, as the saying goes. And the most ridiculous places are requiring these tests, which if you're different from the "standard", you have to suppress your natural responses in order to pass. This is difficult for a lot of us, and this sort of suppression can in fact lead to psychological distress and eventually, if excessive, will lead to the sort of rat-race sociopathic behavior where you'll say anything and do anything to get just enough ahead that the bosses don't throw you out on your ass in the next round of layoffs.
Which is a polite way of saying "Don't play politics in the office." Unfortunately the people who should be paying attention to that are busy playing politics.