Gail Saltz
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209 appearances
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
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Yeah, you can tell him if he has interest in this area of the expanding universe and dark energy that that was the work.
So, you know, I'm trying to be careful in the book to say that really, I think that there is genius with a capital G, which is really, I think, reserved for people who have thought of something that really changed the trajectory of
of their field and of our world and is so, you know, out of the box, uniquely different in terms of their thought process that, you know, they're at the end of that bell-shaped curve, really.
And they're probably a couple of standard deviations off of it.
But I also wanted to include extraordinary achievement.
And so I'd call that
genius with a small g, you know, that there are many people who really have a very particular strength that they apply in a certain arena that has allowed them to come up with some, you know, very creative, innovative thoughts that lead to real achievement in an area.
And, you know, they may not be off the charts in terms of, you know, the Leonardo da Vinci's or the Albert Einstein's,
But, you know, they are they do have extraordinary ability.
it's always, and it's across the board, but what I did, so what I did find, and I, you know, really looked at numerous studies and data to support it is that this occurs on what is called a U shaped curve.
So it seems that if you had to make a sweeping statement, which, you know, I, I try not to do very often, um,
and really try to look at individual wiring issues.
But if you do look across the board, you would find that people who are severely impaired, so maybe they are suffering from symptoms as a result of a difference in wiring, but it is probably, I'm talking about often untreated, and causing real impairment,
and therefore at the more severe end or the top of the U-shaped curve, those people are really not able to manifest whatever strengths they might have because of the impairment.
But also, if you look at the other side of the top of that U, which is people who don't have anything different going on, they don't have different wiring, they sort of fall into, you know, they appear fairly symptom-free perhaps,
but also don't have this difference.
They too seem to have lower rates of particular kinds of strengths.
Creativity is often one of them, but there are others.
And if you look at the bottom of the U, which is people who have mild to moderate differences and mild to moderate symptoms with those differences, they seem to have
Higher rates, significantly higher rates of creativity, of whatever the, you know, if we could be looking at different areas, you know, so it depends on what's causing the problem in the classroom.
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