This chapter is called "The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1." It starts by talking about the show who wants to be a millionaire. They had Chris Langan on and he's a genius. He kept winning and pulled out at $250,000. He's always been wierd. He would semester textbooks in days. After WWI, Lewis Truman, a professor at Stanford, went out in search of genuises. It wasn't hard. There was one, Cowell, who dropped out and was a janitor. He found thousands of geniuses. Then, he shows a list of colleges for all the US nominees for the Nobel Prize. Some schools were top and others weren't. It's not the school but how you apply yourself. The IQ test doesn't measure one's cleverness. There are genuises who just chill at home, and there are people who never went college and are living a successful life.
I think this chapter gave me a lot of hope. Now, I know I don't have to be perfect.
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