================================================ Subject: Re: NCR: "Perfect being" From: "creed -7m3 - live" To: Date: Mon 3 Sep 2001 12:38:36 -0400 ================================================ I like the professional area that you chose. I hope that you can apply your talents with your chosen field. About geniuses maybe failing in the emotional "intelligence" (being able to cope with emotional challenges). There might be some rationalization behind the theory. Unfortunalely, I only have the movie called "Real Genius" to base the emotional imbalance on. And I know that it was only a movie and has no basis towards a factual representation of geniuses. It might be a possibility.(lacking emotional stability). But it might be a factor that allows them to venture into thought areas that the person that is balanced in most areas has. If there was purely logical beings. I wonder how they would understand the world. Anyway, like a person that was preparing for the nuclear field said to me. The world needs people of all intellectual and emotional aspects. Otherwise, the jobs that someone would find totally mundane. Would not be filled. Everyone would want the more challenging jobs. And society would not be able to function properly. My ideal was to make a totally balanced being. (Best physical co-ordination, highest mental capacity and highest emotional stability). It sounded great in theory. But what would such a world be like? Later, Jim --------------------------------- On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 20:04, fmn wrote: > Hey Jim and all! > I think that what you said, Jim, (I quote): "I think that a person that internalizes everything and doesn't get things off of their chest or communicate about things on a daily basis, will experience a breakdown a lot quicker than one that does. Here, intelligence doesn't really play a part." is true, but intelligence does play a part here - not the one you think of but "emotional intelligence" for sure. So I guess, if you combine this observation with (let me just call it this way) your "tradeoff" theory (you know the one which states that a genius would be excellent in certain aspects of life and totally not so in others) it would actually (maybe) make sense to say that while being very intelligent (in the common sense of the word "intelligent") a genius tends to being a failure in the "emotional intelligence" sector. > Well, I know this is not true for every genius, but doesn't there exist such a tendency? > > On another note: (I don't know if I've already mentioned it) I decided to study international relations. > gtg, > greetings, > Ewa > -- Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich one day. -- Josh Billings To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp