Then I read of a man like prof of maths Alec Aitken. Despite being nearly blown to chops on the Somme his prodigious memory and maths brain went from strength to strength, He was a musician, a gifted linguist,athletic, humourous and personable. He was probably full of common sense too. Some people shouldn’t have a superiority complex, They really are superior.

I’ll go back to breathing through my mouth, jaw a-slack.

Still, the problem with “g” has always been that it’s a pretty bad concept for what it’s trying to measure. There are simply different vectors & approaches that people have as a natural course. For the analytical types, there is an Engineer mindset that compares to an Analyst mindset. Both can arrive at functional answers to questions, but their entry points are always different. It’s a bit like the difference between Newtownian & Leibnitzian Calculus: each version has its strengths, but they are very different approaches to the same problem.

And that’s before we approach it from a neurological structure point of view. There’s very definitely a few different ways that the really intelligent process information, likely focusing more heavy on specific structures that they’ve built up over time, as they found it more valuable to focus on those mental skill sets over others. Which then opens up the Prodigy vs Genius issue, where the Prodigy just “knows stuff” while the Genius has a hyper-focus ability, thus allowing them to accrue vastly more hours on a complex subject over their piers.

It’s actually a pretty fun topic, but, well, it helps to be really smart, otherwise it simply comes off as arrogance.