<p>Here might be a more reliable indicator: The Presidential Challenge. To be considered good, you should probably be atleast in 85th percentile. Here’s the stats.</p>
<p>You hardly have anywhere near a 6:26 mile-time. Remember, just because you are average does not mean you are “good”. But you can be good by your own standards if that makes you feel better.</p>
<p>@TRUFFLIEPUFF, no one assumed you were ■■■■■■■■ because that entire post seemed like something you might say. It’s not difficult to notice you have a propensity for self-aggrandizement, even by CC standards.</p>
<p>OTOH, I miss Jorghi. And that cs123 dude. Both were hilarious.
BS. He had speaking disabilities which he overcame. He was NOT ‘■■■■■■■■’ or whatever. Most geniuses are probably going to show their talent early on.</p>
<p>@Grisam - All these people had good Cognitive Ability/Working Memory, not good Long Term Memory. </p>
<p>That was my point in making you do that. You found people that had good Working Memory.</p>
<p>A good musician needs Cognitive ability.
A good mathematician needs Cognitive ability.
A good inventor needs Cognitive ability.
A good scientist needs Cognitive ability.
A good writer needs Cognitive ability.</p>
<p>Their levels of Working Memory allows them to think at a higher power than the levels of people with high memory. Heck I’ve known dozens of kids that knew the most insane amount of random facts but has no creativity.</p>
<p>All these Genius’ you posted had that, good Cognitive Ability.
The reason why I guess I’m getting a lot of arguements that make no sense is because most of you guys are the type with succeeding memory. So you wish to deny my claims by believing that “Oh! That kid knew 10000 Digits of pi! He is a genius! Man he remembers every term for that AP Class! HE is soo genius!”, When it should be, he is merely ‘Intelligent’ not Genius.</p>
<p>Can you prove me wrong? Find a nerd that has a very high memory ability and tell me how many great things he has done? :)</p>
<p>^First of all, how do you know Einstein, Newton and the other persons you listed didn’t have a strong memory? Hell, Edison had an amazing memory.</p>
<p>You’re listing random geniuses and claiming that they had a weak memory but strong cognitive ability with no basis for the former whatsoever. Many, many geniuses had a strong memory. This is true at virtually any field, from chess to music to physics.</p>
<p>^ Lol your saying Thomas Alva Edison had amazing memory? You must be highly mistaken.
**“Thomas Edison had once stood in line to pay his taxes but when it was his turn he could not recall his name.” **
Can you please respond again? And please don’t use your biased attempts, just show some proof.</p>
<p>Heck funny that Edison was Dyslexic too.</p>
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Was this your source?
“Edison had an amazing memory… The combination of having the confidence in knowing the information is on record and easily retrievable combined with the improved retention from the process of writing it down, creates a winning combination when it comes to memory.”</p>
<p>Knowing = Understanding, requires more Cognitive than Memory.</p>
<p>Edit:
Yes many Genius’ can have good memory. But what are those genius’s doing? Memorizing the work of Physics? Memorizing dozens of Chess moves?
A true genius would be able to do this without the burden of rote memorization.</p>
<p>Please tell me one genius with good memory.</p>
<p>“Even people with gifted minds suffer memory lapses from time to time, the great inventor Thomas Edison had once stood in line to pay his taxes but when it was his turn he could not recall his name.”</p>
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<p>Show me that those genii you listed (Edison, Einstein, Newton) had bad memory. I showed you that Edison had a strong memory and until you can prove otherwise, I’m correct.</p>
<p>A memory lapse =/= bad memory. Your argument is void.</p>
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<p>Again, you’re creating an argument with only half the truth. The rest of that article (i.e. the part that you put in the elipses) said that his memory was strong due to his strong note-taking ability. Whatever he wrote down just went directly into his memory. </p>
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<p>So, a genius with a strong memory is automatically incapable of achieving anything significant in his/her field?</p>
<p>At a high level, chess requires a strong memory. The genii of chess (Kasparov, Capablanca, Fischer, etc.) utilized their memories to be considered the top of their field.</p>
<p>Now, why don’t you show me that Einstein and Newton had a bad memory - as you claimed?</p>
<p>Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)*
Normal Age-Related Cognitive Changes*
Alzheimers Disease
Other forms of dementia</p>
<p>The Memory Lapses are only caused because of DECREASED Cognitive Ability, I’m highly sure Albert Einstein didn’t have dementia or Alzheimers… And I’m sure he had freaking high Cognitive ability to discover all those things. The reason why he had bad memory wasn’t because of memory lapses, its just because he couldn’t get the memory from Short Term to Long Term as quickly as you guys…</p>
<p>When your Cognitive ability gets lower your memory lapses increase…</p>
<p>Memory needs Cognitivity. If your Cognitive(Working Memory) ability is too low then its going to take more time to retrieve memorys Because once you lose your prime age of Cognitivity, it will start to go down the drain. But during Puberty is when you can train your brain to the highest levels allowed by DNA before its too late.</p>
<p>Albert Einstein
“It is better for people to be like the beasts…they should be more **intuitive<a href=“Cognitive”>/B</a>; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it.”</p>
<p>“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” </p>
<p>“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” </p>
<p>“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” </p>
<p>“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.” </p>
<p>“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.” </p>
