{"id":165,"date":"2009-05-26T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T21:08:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:36:39","slug":"relating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Relating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/outliers\/index.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/outliers\/index.html\">Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Outliers<\/span><\/a>, continuing my quest to take advantage of having some time to read and culture myself.  Like all of Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s books, it is very nifty, but also frustratingly lacking in rigor.  The really, really irritating part of this one (to me) is the shifty metrics he uses for success; he poses that somewhere around an IQ of 130, the competitive advantage flattens out, which I actually am not disinclined to believe. The proposed reason for this cutoff is that somewhere around the quoted 130 IQ, individuals&#8217; increasingly weakened ability to relate to the world catches up to their intellectual advantage; this seems entirely reasonable. The problem is that this conclusion is based almost exclusively financial metrics for success; my observation has always been that the very bright tend to have a pretty strong predisposition for taking positions that are more personally than financially rewarding (he does admit to the problem. He just doesn&#8217;t do anything about it).  Conversely, the best part of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Outliers<\/span> for me is contemplating the group of gifted kids I grew up with as samples for the described phenomena; we <em>so<\/em> match.<br \/>\nSadly, one of the better matching points <em>is<\/em> the &#8220;gifted kids have trouble relating to others&#8221; portion.  I&#8217;ve been feeling it more than usual lately, I blame seeing the dwindling collection of old (GT) friends passing through as the summer begins for starting it.  Now it&#8217;s mostly exhibiting as frequent bouts of the &#8220;alone in a crowd&#8221; sensation most times I&#8217;ve been out of late (with one surprising exception&#8230;hurray cute smart girls, boo deeply ingrained shyness).  I&#8217;ve actually heard similar remarks from a few of said old friends as well.  This probably also relates fairly directly to both my failure to post anything for over a week, and my recent urge to watch through <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(TV_series)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(TV_series)\">Buffy<\/a>.  Theres nothing quite like watching a show based around metaphors which gratuitously translate personal issues into genuine otherworldly (stabable) daemons to soothe the soul&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s Outliers, continuing my quest to take advantage of having some time to read and culture myself. Like all of Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s books, it is very nifty, but also frustratingly lacking in rigor. The really, really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,15,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-general","category-literature","category-navel-gazing","category-oldblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}