When you realize how little actual thinking or brainpower it takes to be significantly smarter than average, it doesn’t leave you feeling so intelligent. The average is terrible. It’s kind of like to a dog, any person seems like a genius.

But there’s a lot more distance between me and someone like Norbert Wiener than the average dog is from the average person. I only seem intelligent because someone at the average is not quite smart enough to discern the difference between Norbert and me.

But unfortunately I have just enough brains to measure that difference, and it’s vast. Far, far more than between me and Joe or Jane Average.