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To: carranza2 who wrote (60848)3/10/2005 5:06:36 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 74559
 
<my university mates who carried tremendous mental horsepower inside their skulls>

I believe because they were champion on an sport that have rules that applied to school. Once the sport changed to real life, the rules changed as well. Then you discovered that it required a different sort of mental power. Call it donkey or mule power or whatever you choose to name it.

But try to remember, there was something there at the university that you were better than the high HP crowd. Try.

My school (until I stayed there) mates made me look stupid in Portuguese and Math, physics. I smashed them in Geography, history, creative writing and English.

I lost contact with them all, bu I have reasons to believe they did't do as well as elmat



To: carranza2 who wrote (60848)3/10/2005 5:20:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Respond to of 74559
 
<I sense a bit of resentment, a bit of bitternesss, a sense of "why you, you dummy?">

Perhaps you can put it down to the Forrest Gump effect. Luck matters as much as anything else.

<But IQ is not the end-all, be-all. >

IQ is a necessary but not sufficient condition. An immune system helps too [as well as other stuff].

Mqurice


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