ever thought about what it is to be intelligent probably some of you have right because you meet your friend and he's pretty dumb and maybe you think you're smarter and you wonder what the difference is and i've thought about this a little bit myself and and one of the things is it seems to me a lot of it's the a lot of its memory but a lot of it's the ability to sort of zoom out like you're in a city and you could look at the whole thing from about the 80th floor down at the
city and while other people are trying to figure out how to get from point a to point b reading these stupid little maps you can just see it all out in front of you you see the whole thing you can make connections that just seem obvious because you can see the whole thing but the key thing is that if you're gonna make connections which are innovative that you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does or else you're going to make the same connections and then you won't be innovative so
get different experiences than than the normal course of events and one of the the funny things about being bright is everyone puts you on this path you know to go to high school go to college i've heard about some kid that's 14 on his way to stanford and that's great that's sort of out of the ordinary but you might want to think about going to paris and being a poet for a few years you know or you might want to go to a third world country i'd highly advise that um you know fall in love
with two people at once walt disney took lsd do you know that and that's where the idea for fantasia came from and you can go hear stories about all these people and the key thing that comes through is that they had a variety of experiences which they could draw upon in order to try to solve a problem or attack a particular dilemma in a kind of unique way and so one of the things that you'll get a lot of pressure to do is to go in one very clear direction and one of the the things
that that i had in my mind growing up i don't know how it got there was but that the world was sort of something that happened just outside your peepers and you didn't you didn't really try to change you just sort of tried to find your place in it and and have the best life you could and it would all just go on out there and there were some pretty bright people running it and as you start to interact with some of these people you find they're not a lot different than you um the people
actually making these decisions every day that are sort of running the world are you you know are not really very much different than you and they might have a little more uh judgment in some areas but basically they're the same and once you realize that you start to feel you have a responsibility to do something about it because the world's in pretty bad shape right now and uh i guess one of the things that motivates a lot of people that i've seen that actually get out and do something in in any different field is that
we all sort of uh you know eat food that other people cook and wear clothing that other people make and speak a language that other people evolved and use someone else's mathematics and and we're sort of taking from this giant pool constantly and the most ecstatic thing in the whole world is actually put something back into that pool and i think people from all the fields would express the same sort of feeling it's the most ecstatic thing that i've encountered so i would highly recommend it [Music] you
