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No matter how good you are at something, there's always a million people better than you.

  -- Homer Simpson
Gotcha: Can't win. Don't try.

  -- Bart Simpson
https://youtu.be/1YgGnfBNAqg


I recall once having a conversation with the gifted kids about how being in the "99.5th percentile" meant that there were 8 million people in the world smarter than you. That number is just bigger now, and ignores fields of specialization entirely.


If you are in the US, that 8 million number won’t mean much. You would be surprised how fast the brain withers away without proper education




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