Idiocracy: Prophetic Movie
I read this book, Deep Work, a long time back. By the author, Cal Newport One of the things that this book talked about. Was something very important that gets missed in the larger thoughts about deep work and concentration, etc. He talks about his Jewish friend who has traditional Jewish training, reading and analyzing the Torah. This very wellplished professor tenured professor accomplishing some amazing feats of human accomplishments not just in the field of computer science, but also such a precocious author tells us that this friend of his can run circles around him when it comes to raw intelligence. Then he goes on to explain the biological mechanisms of what is actually happening. He says the way the Torah is understood by these Jewish students. Allows certain layers of their brains to build very strong network connections. And you do that over generations, you get the smartest people in the world, which are the Jewish people, as far as we can tell. I don't think there is a...