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Do we mistake insanity for genius?


Wilbur

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This month's Skeptical Inquirer magazine's cover article is about Nobel Prize winners who have gone off the deep end on subjects not within their field. For example being anti-vaxxers. 

I've always believed that we are all a little crazy, but just about different things. Same goes with genius. We are all slightly wacko Einsteins in our own way.

And then there is RG.....   :D 

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Nice bonus :)

Tesla has awarded its CEO, Elon Musk, with the first out of 12 performance-based payouts — and it’s worth over a whopping $700 million. According to a document (via TechCrunch) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk has earned 1.7 million Tesla shares worth $775 million, based on the company’s stock price on Thursay.

As CNBC explains, Musk doesn’t take a salary, but he owns 18.5 percent of the company. To be able to earn performance-based payouts, he’ll need to reach certain milestones for each of the 12. He received the first one after Tesla’s market capitalization stayed at $100 billion on a 30-day and six-month trailing average. The automaker also had to hit a trailing-four-quarter revenue of $20 billion.

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1 hour ago, Wilbur said:

Maybe they just go hand in hand.   Firstly.. Elon, are you insane?  Is this you Danson/Goldberg moment? 

 

In a Psychology class I took in college years ago the professor spoke of a intelligence continuum.  In that, don’t look at intelligence as a straight line where the highly intelligent are on one side, the insane another.  Intelligence is a circle where as the super intelligent and insane are both at the very top of the circle and those with average intelligence at the bottom.  And being so close together on the continuum  there is a lot of cross over between the highly intelligent & insane.

I often think of this lecture with guys like Elon Musk.

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