Xanthippe, the young Athenian wife of Socrates has been described as the harshest, painful, ill-tempered, shouting, insulting woman that was unusual even for those ancient times when wives, girls and women were, by and large, soft spoken, gentle, submissive, docile, compromising and accommodating to their men.
Elephants carry immense weight, strength, power, capacity, capability and talents but they rarely hurl their weight around. They are super gentle giants who never brag about themselves to smaller animals nor scare them, intimidate, threaten, or ridicule them. They go their own way without bothering much about them. If they started dealing seriously...
One day I bumped into someone. A 35 year old, living with her mom. We fell talking.
Many shallow streams flow with a deafening noise and mischievous gurgle. On the contrary deepest lakes and holes in oceans that are well over hundreds of feet deep are utterly calm and quiet.
Having a high IQ is rarely a cakewalk. Usually, it brings as many troubles as joys, rather like roses with thorns.
A genius child or a childlike genius? Both can be quite similar.
There's a weird correlation between happiness and success that everybody often wonders about. Some say they'll be happy if they are successful; other say they are sucessful if they happy. One of the first cummodities in everyone's wishlist, happiness and success are topmost indirect ambition of every human breathing on this planet. But whatever...
Arthur Conan Doyle murdered Sherlock, but he refused to die. He was revived again and now 100+ years later he still stubbornly declines to leave our hearts. Why is Sherlock so unforgettable and why is he so unique? Because he actually accidentally fulfils all the required criteria for a mad genius, and is in fact a classic mad genius. Here is how:...
Prodigiousness is a high fantasy for most parents. Given the choice, every parent would like to have a prodigious child, but prodigy children are not easy to identify, and much less to understand. Indeed some often get easily misunderstood by their world they live in.
Are there any negative effects of being wise? Of course!
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