Roman Yampolskiy
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I was going to bring that up.
That's what's fascinating to me.
There's a lot of people that are in Mensa.
They want to tell you how smart they are by being in Mensa.
But your life is kind of bullshit.
Like if you're really intelligent, you'd have social intelligence as well.
You know, you'd have the ability to formulate a really cool tribe.
There's a lot of intelligence that's not as simple as being able to solve equations and answer difficult questions.
There's a lot of intelligence in how you navigate life itself and how you treat human beings and the path that you choose in terms of, like we were talking about, delayed gratification.
There's a certain amount of intelligence in that, a certain amount of intelligence in discipline.
There's a certain amount of intelligence in
forcing yourself to get up in the morning and go for a run.
There's intelligence in that.
It's like being able to control the mind and this sort of binary approach to intelligence that we have.
He's drinking Coca-Cola and eating McDonald's.
Yeah, and the first thing they would do is tell him, stop drinking Coca-Cola.
He's invested, so he's just like- Well, I think he probably has really good doctors and really good medical care that counteracts his poor choices.