To assess the human mental development and abilities, IQ, (from “intelligence quotient”), a quantitative assessment, is used to express the relative intelligence of a person. It is accessed by special intelligence test (such as Eysenck test).
It is believed that the average IQ score of the human population is 100, while IQ of 120 is regarded as a person is gifted, IQ of 140 as highly gifted, and IQ of 180 as genius.
Prominent scientists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are alleged to have an IQ of 160. The famous Korean Kim Ung Yong, born on March 8, 1962, has a verified IQ of 210.
He started talking when he was just 4 months old.By the time he was 2 years old, he could speak four languages.The gifted boy was a guest student at Hanyang University from the age of 3 to the age of 6.
At the age of 4, he appeared on Japan TV and solved differential equations on live TV!
When he was 8, NASA invited him to come to the U.S.He eventually ended up at Colorado State University as a PhD student and finished his doctorate at the age of 15.
However, the young genius abruptly quit his job at NASA and decided to return to homeland, as he said in an interview, “I was sick and tired being the center attention.
I felt like a monkey in a zoo.”
Upon returning to Korea, he pursued a career in civil engineering.Kim was required to formally complete Korean schooling in order to get a job.He started studying to graduate high school and earned his elementary in just one years.
After he enrolled at a regional university to study Civil Engineering.And finally, he felt himself like an ordinary person living among his peers.
Probably, he took into account the sad experience of many famous geniuses who became hostages of their incredible abilities, depriving them of their normal life, as they often went crazy or died before they reached old age.
“There are not so many people in the world who can do what they want, but I could. If this is not success, then what would you call a happy life?” these are the most important words that Mr. Kim Ung Yong said, sharing the story of his complicated youth.
The fact that someone is smart, gifted, creative, doesn’t automatically mean they are successful and happy.The story of William James Sidis, who was born to emigrants in New York in 1898, proves it.
Sidis was raised in a particular manner by his parents, who wished the son to be gifted and for this, they used their special methods of parenting.
And they succeeded in child-rearing methods the IQ of William Sidis was alleged to be between 260 and 300.He was quite possibly the smartest man who ever lived.
At 7 months, the baby not only knew a large number of words, but also learnt all the letters.At 18 months, a new achievement of the prodigy was recorded he was able to read the New York Times on his own.
At 2.5 years old, the child could confidently compose texts in English and French on the typewriter.
As he grew and matured, Sidis proved capable in everything he tried.At the age of 7, he mastered the school curriculum in just about six months and his language repertoire included 7 languages, with Russian among.
At the age of 4, Sidis wrote 4 books; at the age of 9, he developed his own logarithmic system, using a base of 12 instead of the usual e or 10 bases.
He became the youngest student ever to enroll at Harvard University at 11, in 1911, along with Norbert Wiener and Richard Fuller in a group for gifted children.In the summer of 1914, the young man received a Bachelor of Arts Diploma.
Soon, he graduated with honors from Harvard University.Intensive training deprived him of his childhood.Moreover, the young genius had vowed never to marry and told he would like to be a hermit.
It was published in various newspapers, which considerably harmed William’s psyche.
After treatment in a psycotherapeutic clinic and seeking to live quietly, he hid from public life and journalists for years. However, a reporter found him working as a clerk in a Wall Street office for twenty-three dollars per week.
Sidis worked as an accountant, as a modest clerk, wrote novels, published a treatise on train tickets, in which he identified ways to increase the capacity of the transport network. Also, he received a patent for a permanent endless calendar that took into account leap years.
It is believed that at mature age, William Sidis knew about 40 languages; he also created an artificial language. As William himself said, it takes him a day to learn a new language.
In 1937, a correspondent of The New Yorker told about Sidis’s life, making the genius one of the heroes of the cycle “Where are they now?” dedicated to famous personalities who have long dropped out of the horizons of society. William Sidis died in a rented room in Boston in 1944, with nobody next to him.
Gozel SAHATOVA