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MDMAlliance on 08 July 2012
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
MDMAlliance said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Fast brain development since birth. I started walking early, and when I was told to identify a car I even mentioned that "It's Mr Bean's car!" at a very, very young age. Needless to say, they were stunned by my intelligence.

So yeah, I think it has a lot to do with my heritage, but also the environment, obviously. I don't believe in free will though, so I wouldn't give myself any credit. I simply consider myself fortunate.


Beingable to walk early doesn't mean you're smart.  The reason many babies can't walk until a certain age is because their bodies cannot support it.

Not solely. My brother had a much lighter body than me, yet he started walking later than me. That indicates a faster developing brain.


I don't think that early development also means you're smart.  I don't remember much when I was a kid, but I did many things late because I was a silent child.  I didn't learn my own name until I was 5 years old, and I have no idea how I didn't know.  If I base my intelligence on that, I would fit under mentally challenged.



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tonymarraffa on 08 July 2012

I think I'm average in intelligence. I don't think how smart you are is really that important. It's how you treat people that really matters most.



IIIIITHE1IIIII on 08 July 2012
MDMAlliance said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
MDMAlliance said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Fast brain development since birth. I started walking early, and when I was told to identify a car I even mentioned that "It's Mr Bean's car!" at a very, very young age. Needless to say, they were stunned by my intelligence.

So yeah, I think it has a lot to do with my heritage, but also the environment, obviously. I don't believe in free will though, so I wouldn't give myself any credit. I simply consider myself fortunate.


Beingable to walk early doesn't mean you're smart.  The reason many babies can't walk until a certain age is because their bodies cannot support it.

Not solely. My brother had a much lighter body than me, yet he started walking later than me. That indicates a faster developing brain.


I don't think that early development also means you're smart.  I don't remember much when I was a kid, but I did many things late because I was a silent child.  I didn't learn my own name until I was 5 years old, and I have no idea how I didn't know.  If I base my intelligence on that, I would fit under mentally challenged.


I said since birth, not that being intelligent early on in your life ensures great intelligence till you die.

Of course I may be wrong, which is why I said "I think it has a lot to do with my heritage".

 

Edit: Late reply to Homer: That's fully possible, but he also had problems learning at school so you can't really know if one of the two or both are the reason.



MDMAlliance on 08 July 2012
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:


I said since birth, not that being intelligent early on in your life ensures great intelligence till you die.

Of course I may be wrong, which is why I said "I think it has a lot to do with my heritage".

 

Edit: Late reply to Homer: That's fully possible, but he also had problems learning at school so you can't really know if one of the two or both are the reason.


I was just saying because your examples were only from your younger ages.  Early development does mean something to me, but the fact that I lack it also means something.  As for intelligence being in heritage that would be interesting to find out if it was, but I'm not sure if I can believe it.



Conegamer on 08 July 2012

Erm...hard work?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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Conegamer on 08 July 2012
MontanaHatchet said:
You know how they say we can only use 20% of our brains? Well I took this pill that lets me use ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my brain's capability. Needless to say, I invested in IBM.

Hehe. I see what you did there!

Your ability to amaze certainly is Limitless.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Aielyn on 08 July 2012
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
And then there is the sense of balance. Also, doesn't the brain deal with the coordination of the muscles?

The brain is involved. But I was talking more about coordination within muscles, rather than between them. Much of this is done without the brain's direct involvement, either within the muscle itself or within the spinal column, which actually handles some of the most elementary processes.



MontanaHatchet on 08 July 2012
Kantor said:
MontanaHatchet said:
You know how they say we can only use 20% of our brains? Well I took this pill that lets me use ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my brain's capability. Needless to say, I invested in IBM.

Now that you've made this joke, can you change your avatar back?

Soon as I find a good Amaterasu image.



 

 

NintendoPie on 08 July 2012
Conegamer said:
MontanaHatchet said:
You know how they say we can only use 20% of our brains? Well I took this pill that lets me use ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my brain's capability. Needless to say, I invested in IBM.

Hehe. I see what you did there!

Your ability to amaze certainly is Limitless.

You are so slow Conegamer. Just like you were with noticing how Smeags wasn't a Writer anymore.



Conegamer on 08 July 2012
NintendoPie said:
Conegamer said:
MontanaHatchet said:
You know how they say we can only use 20% of our brains? Well I took this pill that lets me use ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of my brain's capability. Needless to say, I invested in IBM.

Hehe. I see what you did there!

Your ability to amaze certainly is Limitless.

You are so slow Conegamer. Just like you were with noticing how Smeags wasn't a Writer anymore.

I don't read every comment :P

And I already knew. It's just polite to acknowledge it.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.