[UA] Channelling Multiple Archetypes

[Eric Baker]

> High intelligence, gobs of skills.  Why?  Or do you mean someone who's
> genuinely good at all aspects of human endeavor?  In that case, high stats,
> high skills.  I haven't met anyone who was exceptionally good at book
> learning AND art AND sports AND socialization, but I'm sure they're out
> there, just waiting to make the rest of us feel like some form of shoe
> residue.

    There was a New Yorker piece a while back on the nature of brilliance.
The focus was this neurosurgeon that does this operation on this certain
sort of cancer that people get in their necks.  He's the best in the world
at it, and the people he trains are better than anyone else, but none of
them are as good as he is.  He's also an obsessed tennis player, and has
worked as hard at tennis as he has at neurosurgery, but he is no where near
as good at tennis as he is at surgery.
    The article also talked about Michael Jordan trying to play baseball and
a couple other people.  The conclusion was that beyond talent, drive, and
hard work, there is something else that you need to be really great at
something.  Unfortunately, even those that have it don't know what it is and
seem incapable of passing it on.
        -- Eric
-- 
Willow:  We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy
over my class notes with a system of different colored pens, but it's been
pointed out to me that that's, you know, insane.
Tara: I said "quirky".


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