Super-humans

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and I used to think you were smart :grinning:

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Well, Iā€™m glad that situation has been resolved :smile:

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I like most of them but tomato is my favourite, yes, Iā€™m a soup-ermanā€¦

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It makes you wonder if we all have the ability to do superhuman things but for some reason never seem to develop them.
Although you only have to look around the world at musicians, sports people, and the chasers to realise how rubbish most of us are at anything.

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Some of the smartest, cleverest people in the world are probably rubbish at the practicalities of daily living.
I donā€™t envy them.

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This depends on what is viewed as smart or clever.

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Iā€™m sure Iā€™ve mentioned my theory beforeā€¦ everyone is a genius at something, but only a statistically trendy number actually get to be in the right place, time, environment, opportunity to find, develop and use that genius.

Thus, the likes of Mozart, Einstein etc etc are statistical anomalies, where the runes lined up all in a row.

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Yes ā€¦ I think that too. Everyone is good at something but a great many people have to knuckle down and earn a living or care for others and havenā€™t the time or money to discover their niche.

In theory the kids of the celebrities and well-to-do should outshine the rest of us because they can turn their life into an adventorous mission of personal developmentā€¦

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I find that people have to love the thing that they are good at.
I went to a secondary modern school with a lad who was brilliant with numbers, he could add up rows of numbers before I had time to write them down. He went to grammar school but left shortly after term started and came to our school. He had no interest in learning or progressing his skills whatsoever.

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Iā€™m very good at knowing my limitations.

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Iā€™m certainly no Clint Eastwood. :grinning:

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Clever comes at a cost, a person has to know when to stop :icon_wink:

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Indeed! :flushed::face_holding_back_tears::+1:

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I am super human by staying married for 54 years to the same person

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The answer isnā€™t 42, itā€™s 1973 :grin:

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I suspect that Mrs Realspeed is a superdooper human then. :upside_down_face:

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But that was normal many years ago.

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This is deffo not meant as a humorous comment about marriageā€¦ but back in the day, life imprisonment tended to mean life imprisonment. But this has changed in terms of the sense or ā€œpermanenceā€.

Similarly, the ā€œuntil death do us partā€ bit of the vows seems to be interpreted nowadays as the death of the marriage, rather than the participants.

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Yeah, some big changes over my lifetime Dex, and not all for the better.

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