This text offers a compelling perspective, but it overlooks a critical dimension. Many of the traits described can be understood not as signs of high intelligence, but as the outputs of a constantly active, unregulated mind. Overthinking, anxiety, sleeplessness, and sensory sensitivity do not necessarily indicate depth. The real issue is not what the mind produces, but whether that process is observed. Without awareness, no matter how complex the mind becomes, it remains trapped in the same loops. These patterns can be analyzed, discussed, and even framed as intellectual depth, but at their core, they are variations of a mechanical process. What is truly transformative is not thinking itself, but seeing how thinking is formed. Without awareness, even the most “intelligent” mind continues to circulate within its own noise. The issue, then, is not intelligence, but whether that intelligence can become aware of itself.
I thought I was reading a post about Adhd. I tick all these boxes. I can come up with four different business ideas before lunch, but I might not know what day it is. I don't feel like a genius though.
All humans and susceptible to the same internal and external cues. We are all - barring people with genetic defects - in theory, genetically 'capable' of exhibiting behaviour ranging from the ultra altruistic to utterly abhorrent.
Our own individual coordinates on this spectrum depend largely on the quality of our internal states (feelings, thoughts, memories, memories of feelings, friction from unresolved feelings etc) and the ongoing regulation, a process of refining our internal model of the world to accommodate new information.
If our Pre Frontal Cortex (PFC) cannot immediately rationalise and label a stimulus, because it is unrecognisable or the intensity of chemical stimulus surpasses a critical threshold, cognitive reasoning is considered a luxury dependent on imminent survival, so the impulse (run) bypasses the PFC entirely in favour of immediate action.
Those with too much friction cannot efficiently pass information between the two systems due to unresolved resistance, diminishing their launchpad for achieving genius requiring taxing emotional work before any true version of the genius to be could even be considered.
'Genuis' is a perfectly achievable internal state, permitted within genetic expression. It is likely the friction free (or low friction) internal environment has selected efficient pathways, automating unconscious emotional regulation and paving the runway for them to take flight.
In a world addicted to noise, clarity becomes a quiet revolution: https://letsgetclearhq.substack.com/p/this-is-all-of-us?r=73srwp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Just, absolutely amazingly written! 🩷
This text offers a compelling perspective, but it overlooks a critical dimension. Many of the traits described can be understood not as signs of high intelligence, but as the outputs of a constantly active, unregulated mind. Overthinking, anxiety, sleeplessness, and sensory sensitivity do not necessarily indicate depth. The real issue is not what the mind produces, but whether that process is observed. Without awareness, no matter how complex the mind becomes, it remains trapped in the same loops. These patterns can be analyzed, discussed, and even framed as intellectual depth, but at their core, they are variations of a mechanical process. What is truly transformative is not thinking itself, but seeing how thinking is formed. Without awareness, even the most “intelligent” mind continues to circulate within its own noise. The issue, then, is not intelligence, but whether that intelligence can become aware of itself.
I thought I was reading a post about Adhd. I tick all these boxes. I can come up with four different business ideas before lunch, but I might not know what day it is. I don't feel like a genius though.
All humans and susceptible to the same internal and external cues. We are all - barring people with genetic defects - in theory, genetically 'capable' of exhibiting behaviour ranging from the ultra altruistic to utterly abhorrent.
Our own individual coordinates on this spectrum depend largely on the quality of our internal states (feelings, thoughts, memories, memories of feelings, friction from unresolved feelings etc) and the ongoing regulation, a process of refining our internal model of the world to accommodate new information.
If our Pre Frontal Cortex (PFC) cannot immediately rationalise and label a stimulus, because it is unrecognisable or the intensity of chemical stimulus surpasses a critical threshold, cognitive reasoning is considered a luxury dependent on imminent survival, so the impulse (run) bypasses the PFC entirely in favour of immediate action.
Those with too much friction cannot efficiently pass information between the two systems due to unresolved resistance, diminishing their launchpad for achieving genius requiring taxing emotional work before any true version of the genius to be could even be considered.
'Genuis' is a perfectly achievable internal state, permitted within genetic expression. It is likely the friction free (or low friction) internal environment has selected efficient pathways, automating unconscious emotional regulation and paving the runway for them to take flight.