He's business saavy. Gates was business saavy. Intel (by
acquiring the failing calculator company that commissioned the
4004 integrated circuit, which led to the 8008, 8080, 8086 -->
today) - was business saavy. VERY business saavy mind you. But
business saavy. == True. I'm not knocking down business saavy as
being less-than academic genius, just in a different slot
perhaps. I once read a book on geniuses a few years ago - it was
quite sad really. They did a study of kids that had tested
genius IQ level and who also had all of the other high marks (at
the time) that predicated success including social skills,
leadership qualities, and such. They found matching sets
(score-wise) and had a spectrum of different levels but all
high. Tracked them every few years. Did a follow up about 25
years later. Saw what happened to them. The ones who had the
family financial support to get them through University, even
from those of lower high levels, all were great successes in
their fields. The ones who had to pay their way through school,
get grants and scholarships because they didn't have the family
financial backing? They were harder to find and when they did,
well, they followed in the footsteps of their families. Some
happy, some not. You wouldn't know they were high level IQ with
high social skills, leadership qualities - all the qualities
that, at the time of the outset of the study were considered
measures of success. The only indication they could see were in
some of their hobbies, but it wasn't represented in the things
they did that made money. ==
