How to Think Like a Genius 10 — Girlfriend Getting
How to Think Like a Genius 10 — Girlfriend Getting
Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner
August 8, 2017
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You were born — you’re 56 — in 1960. You have some skills that you developed that are math skills that were relevant at some previous time and less now.
Rick Rosner: I don’t know. I started to develop the math skills and was ready to develop them. In junior high, I was terrible at PE, which was typical of nerds at the time. Maybe still. So, the coach would sit me on the risers, on the bleachers, and I wouldn’t watch my male classmates play basketball because I didn’t give a crap. Instead, I watched the girls and started to get a boner in case the coach called me back in and to not get a boner I’d do powers of 2 in my head, and I got really good at doing powers 2 2, and I got way past 2 to the 10th, which is 1,024 to 2 to the 20th, which is 1084576, 2 to the 30th, 1073 somethin’, and I got up into the 2 to the 40th or 50th or whatever, but this is also about the same year that calculators came out.
It was immediately apparent that there was little point in being a human calculator. I would’ve tried anything to get a girlfriend, but somehow calculating seemed even to me a hopeless proposition. [Laughing] at girlfriend getting [Laughing] Hopeless girlfriends getting [Laughing].
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Authors[1]
Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
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