William James Sidis was born on April 1st in 1898. His parents Boris and Sarah Sidis came from Ucrania to New York, Boris was a psychologist more in the art of hypnosis and then teacher in Harvard, Sarah was a Medical.

When William was born his father decided to apply on his son his eccentric theory of psychology in the real world environment.

First Few Months Of William Life:

His parents using wooden blocks with the alphabet and using too similar techniques of hypnosis for he to pronouncing the letters.

8 Months:

William was able to feed himself will a spoon, ability that a few children only can develop within 12 months.

1 Years Old And a Half:

He was reading the newspaper the New York Times.
Able to recognize and repeat the words of his father wooden blocks and symbol recognition that only a 4 year child can do.
Then Sarah gave of her career to dedicate her life to her son.

5 Year Old:

He began to bring the press attention and he started to learn Latin, Greek, Russian, French Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian and Verdergood a language that he invented. His thirst for knowledge never went unquenched.

6 Yeard Old:

He went to Grammar School but in a just over half year he had advanced to the High School.

9 Years Old:

He attempted to enroll in Harvard but not accepted because he was too "emotionally immature". So he waited and started to increase more and more his knowledge mastering foreign languages and mathematic stuff.

11 Years Old:

William finally entered to Harvard and he gave a speech to a 100 teachers and advanced maths students about his theory of THE FOURTH DIMENSION.

16 Years Old:

He finished his graduation.
And for a briefly time he started to taught mathematics at Rice University in Houston.

After bad decisions in his life also because the press pressure who that he had to carry in his whole life who contributed to his fall.

The End:

With 46 years old he died with a massive stroke alone on his apartment in Boston.

Conclusion:

He dominated about 40 languages, his IQ was estimated as high as 300 when 140 is considered a genius.


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My theory:
we are all born with the same brain.

no, for many reasons.

1: not everyone's brain is of the same size at birth. (like any other body part for that matter)
2: scientists say that the brain of an unborn child can already be stimulated.
3: recently, a link was discovered between genes and intelligence.

Thx, would be good for this thread if u put an article explaining all of that

long ago (and I mean LOOOOOOONG AGO, about the last decade of the XIX century) it was determinate that brain size and intelligence are independent.. is the amount of connections among brain cels that makes the difference (and as far as I recall, was studying Albert Einstein's brain where that theory was confirmed)
Brain connectivity can be increased with early stimulation, however, as happens in sports, some has special qualities and differences..

The same happens with the "gene" of intelligence... all our activities are determinate by genetics... muscle size, tall, color, I mean ALL.. there can be stimulation to get the best of each quality, but no way to go naturally above it..

I like to think in that over-persons just as... different, but the same (we all are humans, aren't we?), because even they have some advantages in some things, in others are as limited or more limited than the others... and believe me, I know what I am talking about....

Great explanation Serge thx

Oh my God, you have a lot of stress if you die from the stroke at 46, I think the guy was so bloody brilliant that he did not have time for fun stuff in his life.
Hugh Hefner on the other had is 82 and still living every man fantasy.

So the great Superman issue is: is it all about your own fun of saving the world?

that dude was probly the most hated kid at school!

And the most geeky, like in revenge of the nerds movie....

oh and about hugh hefner. he's living with his 3 girlfriends and they're um ......well slags. he seems like a creepy old man. Id take one cool girl over three bimbos anyday.

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slags

You are so right Hugh Hefner definitely does not understand the word "subtle"

phewwww

Intelligence isn't everything...
Hugh is def a legend in how own sense but Max Tucker comes to mind lol

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Posted 18 April 2008 04:12 PM
William James Sidis

that proves the sources of this site wrong-

highest IQ

the site states the person with the highest IQ is, Kim Ung-yong, with the IQ of 210.