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What in gods name is happening in this thread....???

"Strykr" wrote:
What in gods name is happening in this thread....???

Radical innovations in science of course. Nobel prize winning papers in the making.

My kitty's breath smells like cat food!

Maybe we're underestimating OP. He could be a level 2 super genius like this guy:

I recommend his book.

The Future Capitalist by Roy Philipose

It's absolutely amazing(ly hilarious).

My favourite quote so far:

I went to catholic school, got taught by some nuns, they were nice, but they weren't investors.

Oh this bit is great too:

Funny my last interview with them (Citizens Bank), on Feb 22, 2006, in a store branch, seemed to go well. Well, for the most part, during the interview I was silent, they asked me typical "employee level questions". What can I say? I am thinking way beyond them, and they probably knew I wouldn't be a good fit there. They are right and wrong. True, most likely I wouldn't be the best "in store branch sale associate", but in about twelve months, i could lead the entire banking sector in store volume as regional president of Citizens Bank.

It's so odd how people like Roy can't seem to get a job because they're just too damn fantastic to get entry level jobs (obviously they should be going straight in as Board members or Regional Presidents). So conveniently they are never in any actual position where they might be required to display their supposedly fantastic knowledge in an actual professional environment surrounded by people who actually know the business.

Postscript: Apparently now he wants to be a hiphop artist.

MrsVR what happened to the embedded thing? I'm not seeing anything.

"Ashles" wrote:
I recommend his book.

I know a guy sort of like this, except he left his wife and children for a career in "art". Nice enough chap, also smart, charming and over qualified for life, but lives eternally with his head in the clouds and constantly insists that's where it belongs. He's living in his friend's garage until his art career takes off. Any day now...any day now. He's pushing 50 years old.
I've been a voice of reason for well over two decades. Personally offered him employment opportunities on nearly every level of his presumed expertise. He wont accept those. Money he'll accept, but doing work for money is beneath him. Oh well, he's happily miserable and I now support his choice because I enjoy watching train wrecks, apparently. My friend has written three books so far, though I haven't been allowed to read a single unpublished page. An unread book is as valuable as a hypothetical diamond.

I also know people like that.
It's sad. It's like they feel they 'deserve' something better and it's not their fault, it's the fault of others who can't see their genius.
But I also think there is a degree of fear - they know deep down that they can't really deliver any of the nonsense they are claiming so it's much easier to stay in the limbo of not really doing anything. You can't fail if you never really try and never expose yourself to a situation where your claims might be tested.

Roy is a classic example - he has a YouTube channel where he expounds on all his intellectual, business and career wisdom (from a towel-draped chair in his bedsit).

Here's one video in which he talks vaguely about the 10 different divisions of his company 'Royalus'. He isn't entirely clear what these divisions are, or what the company does, or whether it has ever actually traded, but he is at least on the lookout to hire interns (and has been apparently for about a year).
He can't actually pay these interns in, you know, money, but he can offer them experience and possibly Royalus shares in the future which he is certain will be worth far more than mere money.

He also talks of another interview he failed in which doesn't bother him because he knows he could have run the company anyway.



NB - it's worth watching at approx 26:07 where in the middle of a lengthy ramble about how you should go out and get a job instead of staying at home all day, it seems someone knocks on the door requiring a hasty cut and then Roy needs to finish up the video session.
(You will hear a lot about A, B, C and D jobs - B, C and D jobs are considered by Roy as undesirable except for all the times when he says you should go and get one of them. it's most confusing.)

Weird, I'm not seeing any video or even links to video.
I'm at work now. When I get home I'll definitely check this guy out.

Okay, I tried to watch that video, I really did, but by the five minute mark my eyes were glazed over. I can't help but wonder what his wife does for a living? Suicide hotline, perhaps? Definitely something in psychological studies.

Ashles do you own that book? That's hilarious! I want to read it but I don't want him to think that his book is actually worth buying.

I really can't stand people like this. I have met so many people who need others to see them as all-knowing geniuses worthy of awe and admiration. Classic first year engineering students who try to impress the others by throwing out words, terms, and ideas, and everyone thinks he must be so smart for even knowing those words. Then he fails calc 1 and is never seen again, but is probably still trying to convince himself that he's a super genius and university is just a sham anyway.
Sadly some manage to graduate and you have to deal with them in your adult life as well.

You can read the first chunk (don't know how many pages as I don't think Roy has worked out that feature of Word) of his book by clicking on 'Look inside'.

The Future Capitalist

His videos are an amazing display of someone who has an excuse for every position.
Can't get a low level job? it's because your mind is too busy thinking about 'the bigger picture'.
Can't get the high level job? It's because you didn't finish college. And you'll set up your own company which will be bigger.
Didn't finish college? College can't teach you anything anyway and getting a degree doesn't help you at all.
etc.
(Roy is very conflicted about college and talks about it a lot - he dropped out of college and spends much of his time explaining how college doesn't help you, but then describes how many jobs he's failed to get because he doesn't have a college degree and that you should probably get one)

Classic first year engineering students who try to impress the others by throwing out words, terms, and ideas, and everyone thinks he must be so smart for even knowing those words.

Roy does exactly this - repeatedly chucks out financial terms, but without any context or structure so it's clear he doesn't really have the first clue about anything. But by jumping randomly from subject to subject he can maintain his delusion he's really smart with the added benefit of pretending he has a mercurial mind that is just sooo active (whereas really he knows he can't talk about anything in detail because his lack of knowledge would become apparent).

This is why people like Roy never end up getting jobs in the fields in which they are supposedly 'experts' - because a) they can't and b) if they did they know their lack of knowledge would be found out within their first day.