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The average IQ of scientists is certainly higher than the average IQ of the general population, but among scientists there is no correlation between IQ and scientific productivity. Indeed, a number of Nobel Prize–winning scientists have had IQs that would not even qualify them for Mensa, an organization whose members must have a measured IQ of at least 132, a number that puts you in the upper 2 percentile of the population. Richard Feynman, one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth century, had an IQ of 126; James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, had an IQ of 124; and William Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the invention of the transistor, had an IQ of 125.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson

Deliberate practice is all about the skills. You pick up the necessary knowledge in order to develop the skills; knowledge should never be an end in itself.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson

That’s how it always is. The creative, the restless, and the driven are not content with the status quo, and they look for ways to move forward, to do things that others have not. And once a pathfinder shows how something can be done, others can learn the technique and follow. Even if the pathfinder doesn’t share the particular technique, simply knowing that something is possible drives others to figure it out.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson

Trivia is a bitch

السِّكِّين

«سُمِّيت سِكِّيناً لأَنها تُسَكِّن الذّبيحة أَي: تُسَكنها بالموت، وكل شيءٍ مات فقد سَكَن».
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ابن منظور، لسان العرب (ج١٥؛ ط٣؛ بيروت: دار صادر، ١٩٩٣)، ج١٣، ص٢١٢.