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smart there are beads in our high school
lives who have been obsessed with that
word either to please the parents to be
better than some other student to go to
Ivy League's to be first in class and
the intention may be different but the
aim has always been to seem smart and
Alex clean why would problem with this
but first off I'll start off with a beer
/ tart story his little boy a fifth
grader came up jovica looked at dead in
the eyes and said quite spitefully why
are you so smart she was a rather
enjoyed soul who was a bit confused by
this hostility and said I'm not really
but why and he goes I would like to have
your brains extracted for the keys you
die so I could use them so this is about
that slightly shaken levitron troll who
felt and for every other young boy and
girl out there who feels like they're
smart discos and seen that cause me and
after many weird instances like the one
I explained I decided to form a short
guide book of what I like to call all
kinds of smart and how to spot them of
course it would always probe but from
what I've observed so far these are good
now I'd like to add a steamer
that there are factors like passion and
motivation and hard work the greatest
actual situation and how easily these
streets can be identified but anyways
the four main types include the enigma
machines the sage link the naughty
craftsman and finally defeat robbers
it's a first off we have ten eight
permissions these are the number Nanjing
ones these are the one that these are
the ones that have involvement attacks
these can be the ones that define the
physics itself they're more easily
identified but again there are always a
few tragedies were the geniuses missed
out on they tend to be the ones that run
programs as their brains and look at all
the possibilities to crack the code
process of elimination is the way of
processing information to them they tend
to process quicker and have logic
diagram like flowcharts and their brains
to make decisions of all most words
working with a goal weight system you'll
see them everywhere from dr. Zook and
set aside emotion to art a suit in a
controversy second we have the sage Minh
they have been to the Platonic schools
and you don't know what to speak to some
of our life because muhammad speak to
the monkey or they're not rare people
just never search for them they're far
more aware of the world than we are
running constant analysis of how society
operates they're the ones who give you
those wake-up calls and ask you for the
underlying reasons behind your actions
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they tend to have a strong hold on this
sense and purpose they tend to analyze
humans and caps we the ability to
produce ideas that really mimic nature
they great teachers
dear listeners and so they tend to
absorb information far differently from
the Enigma machines it had to be really
attentive and receptive to be knowledge
protected and along with the interest
make a concoction the one of the
greatest problem solvers third we have
the natural craftsmen these are the two
Beauty miracles as I'd like to call them
and raise all sorts of them the darvin's
the dickens the best ovens salvatore
alleys and the list is endless
there are the creatively inclined
geniuses the ones that are observed the
marked history but the others are quite
secretly coexisting around us look close
enough I do work and the labels below
them there lies a smartness rather
beautiful the way the introvert
knowledge it is brilliant they are
looking for an absurd respective and
common concepts and their methods are
imaginative and practice is indicative
of their abilities it's usually
experienced in the way they can draw
parallels to previous information then
the last one we have three colors they
are beyond computers clear beyond
Moore's law and nothing will cause them
to go obsolete
nothing stores as much information as
they - and they're identified balls
among some to be poops chopping up facts
within seconds other times in the lazy
kid who manages manages to scrape away
despite a lack of preparation they're
there and you really have to bother them
too
the recall is said to have all aspects
of the above three in terms of memory
storage but the crucial difference is
that they can store immense amounts of
knowledge and untapped ability to solve
problems from a bird's eye view of the
world and so on their judgments and
arguments are brilliantly backed up with
the speed that others may not reach and
so they are also very valuable to a
society when dealing with ethical
dilemmas that were incurred there seems
no right no wrong of course this is also
a generalization and I'd like to think
that we're made of these four spectrums
and your position of the spectrum
multiplied by constant all of it added
up will give you an absolutely useless
number because you can't measure an
intellect and that's the bitter truth of
it all I've organized here but it will
never be wandering with easily pull out
to compare between two kids
who's better or who's smarter I think
it's also important to note that these
kinds of smart aren't limited to appeal
the study the Nike profs numerous
artists and musicians the enigma
missions aren't just mathematicians and
the statement or implement each of the
few the philosophy and I'll break this
down with an example one example
we see NASA say German and who is also a
scientist it's one of the developers at
open e eye-opening I is no artificial
intelligence research lab located in San
Francisco for the innovators working on
mimicking evolution within small AI BOTS
so this resulted in these robots
learning art improving problem-solving
skills which literally began with the
game of hide-and-seek and now the
ability to produce strategies and
display teamwork I'm talking about tiny
robots running on algorithms who can
mimic the way unicellular organisms have
done up to become the humans we are and
it's brilliant and is the innovative
idea of child mimic evolution by simply
providing an environment and the process
of child nur that would define the
secret of us agent any of the other
three could possibly solve the same
problem but it's your approach to it
that's what changes so you might be
wondering why am I talking about this
and well I hope that the recognition the
degree missions get in math classrooms
and the V colors tend to get in any
subject oriented with memorization well
the others don't seem to get that before
it's really sting kurz into specific
subjects and their thinking has to fill
in to set constraints this is partly the
fault of superficial methods of testing
and measuring intelligence like standard
testing which isn't accepting the
different kinds of thinkers from the
forceful major university require to use
that methods and set forms of thinking
is not the part of me to bring out the
full potential and a child that Lavin of
the 11 year old girl and many others are
having school environment is filled with
what words did you get two snarky
comments and dirty looks with absolutely
no basis but these words that
determinate tiny fraction of your
intellectual abilities the tragedy and
all of this is that now we have children
striving for goals with no passion now
we have art without creativity we have
science without it's insanity
we need more mathematicians who discover
and create for the love of math because
in the world of money and development we
forgot we forgot that the greatest of
inventions were accidental from Newton
an example if Newton didn't ask why
isn't the moon falling we wouldn't have
discovered one of the fundamental forces
of physics one of the four pillars of
physics and these discoveries happen the
nurtures when people fall in love with
their subjects and sometimes led to
change the world
relating ourselves and our math
classrooms when we search for only
dynamo machines and when it's the
natural past millions of 2d problems in
3d we're limiting our science classrooms
by appreciating and applauding the new
colors when is the stageman will create
science himself and this isn't about
bashing the educational system
they're working on their best methods to
enrich learning so we need to be working
on the best environments for world-class
learners the balls in our Court this
time this is about the 20th century
students who have lingered into our 21st
century classrooms where the world where
we've come to a point where we're making
evolution in a high and with
mathematicians cackling with excitement
because number theory isn't just
something they're excited about it's
change photography and if you pay close
attention to all of us we started with
the dreams of changing the world and we
invented the wood leaves of the good
offense
and this leads into the second cliche of
being smart the confusion of being smart
and making smart choices I financially
good bodies rather than the true
translation of your intellectual
abilities the obsession over smart has
become synonymous with success money and
status it's about the family reunions
and how many call you smart is it
the scholarship that would do this time
or the trophies or first season
that they have absolutely no clue on
what it measures coming from a culture
where stress is determined by grades the
University of Gordon the money you make
and how close you get to a picture of a
successful life I've had movements for
lose touch with love for my love for
math and science while striving to go to
great university for the opportunity to
be immersed in an environment full of
engineers who love how every single
science comes together to solve problems
I forgot about my love for art I'll
break it down due to the way that we're
enforced to have milestones exams and
grades my Eureka moments when I saw the
proof of a theorem or the moments where
I realize more and more that I love
innovation no longer period significant
to me this isn't just a new situation I
see this in every kid around me and
that's crazy a school or well a
curriculum that I've grown to love over
the past years is will scholars cup the
brilliance in it is the use of
standardized methods of testing well -
rounding it up by judging all the
crucial skills needed in a 21st century
student with the chance to focus on the
learning and the appreciation of every
single child based on their ability in
each subject and in skill within it they
have a chance to fall in love with their
subjects and it never restricts them to
narrow it down they incorporate the
Chinese and interests the students that
you've probably never heard of have you
ever learned about the history of
cheating well that's a subject
scholar stuff and it's no judgement of
the history that you learn at school
it simply shines a different light to it
with no pressure from the individuals to
encourage children to study they choose
what they love and in turn all of them
fall in love in fact this happens
numerous times at both scholars of
course this is still not the perfect
system and I hope that one day we reach
a point where we have a positive outlook
to learning rather than a fixation on
smart and these milestones of success
that are common to millions of students
and most importantly what we need is a
chance to see the smart in every single
child one child who have met who's
inspired me and I think you should know
about is this year 71 men yesterday I
won't reveal his name but let's call
them James I decided to add him to my
talk because I think he is someone that
we should all look up to he came up to
me and he told me that he wants to
change the world so this is one of the
most refreshing things I've heard all
week in fact all month and he's a young
toddler old boy who's recently Twitter
support and the last three weeks is
already set up our well-being programmer
than a student and he hopes to spread
throughout the school and trusting you
and I say he's know how much more he
told me about how he's noticed that our
societies are filled with busy people
consumed by their own bias and he wanted
to change that and so he is he's got all
his ideas and they are
right now I spoke to you about the
subjects he lost and I was intrigued on
his perspective in school or he told me
that the only thing he lives by a
self-improvement and I saw all kinds of
smart in him and most importantly I saw
someone who was a 21st century student
striving for what he loves
I hope you've begun to think about all
the kinds of smart you missed out on I'm
sure some of you have seen a greater
variety and if you haven't observed
those people use another word called the
new Socrates of music the da Vinci of
mathematics the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
personality doppelganger and trust me
it's a great conversation starter and a
healthy boost to the self esteem of
others so write your own mental list of
all kinds of smart and how to spot them
and be ready to share thank you
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