I have always had this thing about being smart.
Growing up I was encouraged (okay bullied) into making sure my report card reflected all A's.
As you can imagine this was a hard thing to do because let's face it I wasn't born with a frock of whity unruly hair with the destiny to create light bulbs, or find out about atoms, or invent post-its (thanks Romy)!
But I have always wondered how does one become smart? Are they just born with it? Is it something that is perfected? Do you have to work to achieve your "smartness"?
Recently I have been searching around looking for who the world considers the smartest people in History.
This is my findings based on IQ scores:
210 - Physicist / Engineer Kim Ung-yong has a verified IQ of 210
195 - Bouncer Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195
190 - Engineer Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190
190 - World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190
190 - Sir Isaac Newton
190 - Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
190 - Ludwig Wittgenstein
186 - Author Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186
180 - Leonardo da Vinci
180 - Actor James Woods is alleged to have an IQ of 180
180 - Buonarroti Michelangelo
180 - David Hume
180 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
180 - Politician John H. Sununu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
179 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
176 - Emanuel Swedenborg
176 - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
175 - Edmund Spenser
175 - Baruch Spinoza
175 - Johannes Kepler
174 - John Stuart Mill
171 - Blaise Pascal
170 - Antoine Lavoisier
170 - Martin Luther
170 - World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is alleged to have an IQ of 167
170 - Chess Grandmaster Robert Byrne is alleged to have an IQ of 170
170 - World Chess Champion Judith Polgar is alleged to have an IQ of 170
170 - Mathematician Andrew Wiles is alleged to have an IQ of 170
170 - Michael Faraday
170 - George Friedrich Handel
167 - Mathematician / Physicist Stephen W. Hawking is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
165 - Samuel Johnson
165 - Ludwig van Beethoven
165 - Joseph Priestley
165 - John Locke
165 - Thomas Hobbes
165 - Charlotte Bronte
165 - Galileo Galilei
165 - Johann Sebastian Bach
165 - Carl von Linne
162 - Madame De Stael
162 - Rene Descartes
160 - Robert Boyle
160 - Microsoft Founder Paul Allen is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
160 - Benjamin Franklin
160 - Albert Einstein
159 - Immanuel Kant
156 - Olof Palme
156 - Thomas Chatterton
156 - Linus Carl Pauling
156 - Sofia Kovalevskaya
155 - Jonathan Swift
155 - Miguel de Cervantes
155 - Rembrandt van Rijn
154 - Actress Sharon Stone is alleged to have an IQ of 154
153 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
153 - Charles Darwin
150 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
150 - Nicolaus Copernicus
150 - Abraham Lincoln
145 - Anna Lindh
145 - Napoleon Bonaparte
143 - George Sand (Aurore Dupin)
140 - George Washington
130 - Ulysses S. Grant
130 - Sir Francis Drake
Do you know any of these people? Seriously how many do you really know? Especially genious boy there right at the top of the list? If he is so smart why is this the first time I am reading his name?
Well that leads me to the thought of the hour? Maybe everyone else has heard of him and it's just me?
So you see my problem? Obviously my parents have created a complex in me about my "not so smartness".
So this post started out as one thing and now has transitioned into quite the other.
So......
Thanks MOM & DAD! For all of the jibs and jabs when I brought home that B+! This posts for you :)
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