Comments for The Genius Project

Comment on Doing whatever it takes by Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:53:16 +0000

Yep – great book!

Comment on Cracking iPods at 22 by daniel

daniel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:25:03 +0000

Seems that the iPad has been pretty well received so far…

Comment on The History of The Genius Project by daniel

daniel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:24:05 +0000

Thanks – I think you’re right. For some people ‘genius’ would defy logic and society; for others perhaps not. I am disinclined to impose my value judgments – what do you think?

I also agree that most people don’t “aspire” to being a genius.
What annoyed me (enough to start this thing) was that people waste their talents and suffer for it, while others never find their talents and suffer for it, while still others struggle with their talents and the whole world suffers for it. I figure if we can help individuals, parents and societies develop their own genius – whatever that means to them – we’ll all be better off.

Comment on Choose your friends very carefully by daniel

daniel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:17:36 +0000

Thanks, Barry! It’s great having friends like you, too!

Comment on Choose your friends very carefully by daniel

daniel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:16:17 +0000

thanks for your comment, Stephanie, I agree with you.

If you can read the article that I posted, you can note that I report the research finding that shows the relationship between happiness, money and friends. We are happier when we have happy friends. In fact, each happy friend that we have increases the chance that we will ourselves be happy by about 9%.

The same research study found that increasing your income by $5000pa increased the chance that we ourselves would be happy by about 2%.

Without taking into account the diminishing rate of return on additional income (that I think we could expect to observe were this to be tested), having a happy friend will make you more likely to be happy. Specifically what I was attempting to communicate was that having that one happy friend would increase the likelihood of you being happy by 4.5 times more than having an extra $5000 income – ie $22,500.

I hope that’s made it clearer for you

Comment on Choose your friends very carefully by Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:03:53 +0000

What utter rubbish, some of the financially poorest people I know have the most friends, work that one out genius

Comment on Choose your friends very carefully by Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:46:40 +0000

Christakis has done a lot of research on this – you can see a talk of his on social networks (and how obesity could be contagious) in a talk on TED.com

Comment on Writers by Penne

Penne — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:10:13 +0000

Absolutely love it Daniel! You’re phenomenal – but you already knew that LOL

Comment on The History of The Genius Project by self-managed

self-managed — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:24:25 +0000

Genuis is an endowment given at birth to all humans. No one is excluded. It has as its purpose the guidance of the individual. Look for it in DNA.

Comment on The History of The Genius Project by Guy Incognito

Guy Incognito — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:27:14 +0000

Hey Dan, Love your work, genius stuff. Just wondering, in what sense does being a genius defy logic and society? Makes sense to me. Also, there are a great many people out there whose dream isn’t to be labeled a genius.

Just to satisfy the curiousity of all your other readers, I myself am a self-diagnosed genius – I first realised my condition when I was packing into a scrum in the local under 14′s rugby league comp. Great moment. Lost the game, but I won so much more.