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@kebudochekardd @grok What was the previous rule?

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@kebudochekardd @grok what is the implication of this new policy?

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In the 1920s, a Stanford psychologist tracked genius children for 50 years.

Malcolm Gladwell breaks down what he discovered:

Rich families → successful. Poor families → failures.

Not average. Failures. Genius-level IQs that produced nothing.

He spent 60 minutes at Microsoft explaining why we're wrong about success:

The psychologist was named Terman. He gave IQ tests to 250,000 California schoolchildren.

He identified the top 0.1%. Kids with IQs of 140 and above.

His hypothesis: these children would become the leaders of academia, industry, and politics.

He tracked them. And tracked them. For decades.

The results split into three groups:

The top 15% achieved real prominence. The middle group had average, moderately successful professional lives.

And the bottom group? By any measure, failures.

The difference wasn't personality. Wasn't habits. Wasn't work ethic.

It was simple: the successful geniuses came from wealthy households. The failures came from poor families.

Poverty is such a powerful constraint that it can reduce a one-in-a-billion brain to a lifetime of worse than mediocrity.

There's a concept called "capitalization rate."

It asks a simple question: what percentage of people who are capable of doing something actually end up doing that thing?

In inner city Memphis, only 1 in 6 kids with athletic scholarships actually go to college.

If our capitalization rate for sports in the inner city is 16%, imagine how low it must be for everything else.

Here's something stranger.

Gladwell read the birth dates of the 2007 Czech Junior Hockey Team:

January 3rd. January 3rd. January 12th. February 8th. February 10th. February 17th. February 20th. February 24th. March 5th. March 10th. March 26th...

11 of the 20 players were born in January, February, or March.

This isn't unique to the Czechs. Every elite hockey team in the world shows the same pattern. Every elite soccer team too.

Why?

The eligibility cutoff for youth leagues is January 1st.

When you're 10 years old, a kid born in January has 10 months of maturity on a kid born in October. That's 3 or 4 inches of height. The difference between clumsy and coordinated.

So we look at a group of 10 year olds, pick the "best" ones, give them special coaching, extra practice, more games.

We think we're identifying talent. We're just identifying the oldest.

Then we give the oldest more opportunities, and 10 years later they really are the best.

Self-fulfilling prophecy.

The capitalization rate for hockey talent born in the second half of the year? Close to zero.

We're leaving half of all potential hockey players on the table because of an arbitrary date on a calendar.

Kids born in the youngest cohort of their school class are 11% less likely to go to college.

11% of human potential squandered because we organize elementary school without reference to biological maturity.

Now here's the part about math.

Asian kids dramatically outperform Western kids in mathematics. The gap is enormous and consistent across decades of testing.

Some people say it's genetic. It's not.

It's attitudinal.

When Asian kids face a math problem, they believe effort will solve it.

When Western kids face a math problem, they believe the answer depends on innate ability they either have or don't.

Here's the proof.

The international math tests include a 120-question survey. It asks about study habits, parental support, attitudes.

It's so long most kids don't finish it.

A researcher named Erling Boe decided to rank countries by what percentage of survey questions their kids completed.

Then he compared it to the ranking of countries by math performance.

The correlation was 0.98.

In the history of social science, there has never been a correlation that high.

If you want to know how good a country is at math, you don't need to ask any math questions. Just make kids sit down and focus on a task for an extended period of time.

If they can do it, they're good at math.

Why do Asian cultures have this attitude?

Gladwell's theory: rice farming.

His European ancestors in medieval England worked about 1,000 hours a year. Dawn to noon, five days a week. Winters off. Lots of holidays.

A peasant in South China or Japan in the same period worked 3,000 hours a year.

Rice farming isn't just harder than wheat farming. It's a completely different relationship with work.

There's a Chinese proverb: "A man who works dawn to dusk 360 days a year will not go hungry."

His English ancestors would have said: "A man who works 175 days a year, dawn to 11, may or may not be hungry."

If your culture does that for a thousand years, it becomes part of your makeup.

When your kids sit down to face a calculus problem, that legacy of persistence translates perfectly.

Now consider distance running.

In Kenya, there are roughly a million schoolboys between 10 and 17 running 10 to 12 miles a day.

In the United States, that number is probably 5,000.

Our capitalization rate for distance running is less than 1%.

Kenya's is probably 95%.

The difference isn't genetic. The difference is what the culture values and where it spends its attention.

Here's the most fascinating finding.

30% of American entrepreneurs have been diagnosed with a profound learning disability.

Richard Branson is dyslexic. Charles Schwab is dyslexic. John Chambers can barely read his own email.

This isn't coincidence. Their entrepreneurialism is a direct function of their disability.

How do you succeed if you can't read or write from early childhood?

You learn to delegate. You become a great oral communicator. You become a problem solver because your entire life is one big problem. You learn to lead.

80% of dyslexic entrepreneurs were captain of a high school sports team. Versus 30% of non-dyslexic entrepreneurs.

By the time they enter the real world, they've spent their whole life practicing the four skills at the core of entrepreneurial success: delegation, oral communication, problem solving, and leadership.

Ask them what role dyslexia played in their success and they don't say it was an obstacle.

They say it's the reason they succeeded.

A disadvantage that became an advantage.

Here's what Gladwell wants you to understand:

When we see differences in success, our default explanation is differences in ability.

We forget how much poverty, stupidity, and attitude constrain what people can become.

We refuse to admit that our own arbitrary rules are leaving talent on the table.

We cling to naive beliefs that our meritocracies are fair.

The capitalization argument is liberating.

It says you don't look at a struggling group and conclude they're incapable. It says problems that look genetic or innate are often just failures of exploitation.

It says we can make a profound difference in how well people turn out.

If we choose to pay attention.

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@55SweetThing @grok what does giving some TLC to the PYTs mean

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@Andrey25_ @grok is this video real?

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Yes I expected pple to react that way. But I did not expect @DineshDSouza to react that way. This is not a message to pple. It is a message specifically to @DineshDSouza coz I was convinced he had the Spirit of God in him and therefore ought to be Seasoned and Gracious in speech. I don’t know you and I therefore don’t necessary expect that from You. This is a personal message to a Brother (or supposed Brother) bcos I cannot reach him personally. His messaging is disabled and I don’t have his personally contact. Moreover some correction needs to be made publicly and this is now an heightened need for public corrections now than ever. I am confident that if @DineshDSouza truly has the Spirit of God in him, he will know the voice speaking to him right now and stop behaving like the rest of the world. It is now increasingly hard to see this level of saltiness from Christians. I am not coming against this behaviour as a Conservative (of which I am one and have nearly >90% political agreement to @DineshDSouza ). I am coming against this behavior in the name of Christ. Stop this. It is bringing reproach to us all and to Christ.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

Even though our kids won’t see our love “grow old together” from an earthly stand point; they’ll see it from a Heavenly one. And I’ll tell them of our love story any moment I can.

Happy Anniversary to the love of my life.

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@AlaskaBird__ @grok please fact check this and give details

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@elonmusk Where does ‘Unkind Lie’ fit?

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@jeremykauffman The Truth is not racist, but there are racist applications or interpretation of the Truth. Even the Devil quote Truth, but with an intent to apply or interprete them for a sinister end.

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@RealDonaldDoo @grok can you comment on this? Do these verses really suggest a true believer can lose their salvation as he suggests?

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Even if these data were true. It would still be racist to judge anyone by it. Racism is nothing but the collective judgement of people. The opposite of racism in this context would be rugged individualism, where we judge each individual by their own merits and character—not by a blanket collective characteristics of their tribe, race, or place or birth. So technically, Sotomayor is right to call it racist. The American principle has always been to let go the generalized data of a people and let each person prove themselves. There will be geniuses and great entrepreneurs in Somalia despite this data, and to deny such pple the acceptance you grant others on the basis of criteria they meet, simply for the fact that they were born in Somalia is racist. We are not perfect but we must struggle not to let such data be the basis of our judgement and we must seek to remove any internalized judgement before the facts of an individual, irrespective of what any data says about his kind. We will sometimes miss and wish we judged collectively but we must relent not to fall into this pattern. For to fall into that collective judgement is itself the definition of Racism. I can’t think of any other way to define racism.

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@RedEagleLaw @curtismorrison @grok is this good news for the individual suing Trump?

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@MarkCira @JonathanTurley @grok explain this to me. Who are the 2 R’s and 2 D’s. And how does the politics work

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@FiSurgi That’s not accurate. It’s more or less 4M-5M to earn that amount depending on the surgical specialty.

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Not entirely true. But even if it were, why should that matter if they have already paid their dues?
The United States requires them to serve 3 to 5 years in underserved areas before they become eligible for a Green Card or citizenship, depending on the terms of their contract with the U.S. government. Some of them fall in love with rural life and choose to stay there for the rest of their lives. Others, after fulfilling their service, move to the cities. That is their prerogative.

Cutting off people who have completed this service from any path to permanent residence is simply unfair. It’s like saying, ‘Many people serve in the U.S. military for a few years and then leave, so we shouldn’t recruit anyone into the military at all.’

Here’s the reality: the United States is going to need immigration one way or another. Our fertility rate of 1.5–1.6 is too low to keep the population stable. Without immigrants, we will head down the same path as Japan — an aging society in decline.
The real question is not whether we should have immigration, but what kind of immigrants we should bring in. This is something both Republicans and Democrats should be seriously thinking about.
We want the best people in the world. We want to curb illegal immigration. And we want immigration to serve American interests.

We should welcome those who are willing to work hard and earn their American citizenship by making a measurable contribution — whether by serving in the military, working as physicians in underserved areas, creating jobs, or otherwise strengthening the country. Not those who expect citizenship as a handout with no real contribution.
Citizenship should not be a gift or an entitlement. It should be a coveted prize that is earned.

When you attack these physicians — people who agreed to work in the most remote parts of America, often against their own and their family’s preferences — and block every pathway to legal residency, we demoralize precisely the kind of immigrants who choose the hardest, most law-abiding path out of respect for the United States.
As a side effect, you incentivize people to pursue residency through loopholes: sham marriages, fraudulent asylum claims, those waiting for the right political climate that allows their border walk in via caravans, or seeking any workaround they can find.

In doing so, you eliminate the very immigrant population that would help build the country — the kind of people most likely to think and reason the way you do.

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@katato__ @grok is this true?

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That’s so ignorant. U.S. IMGs are U.S. citizens who left the country to study medicine abroad. Either because they couldn’t get into U.S. med schools after multiple trials and were able to secure a position abroad, they cannot afford US medical education. Or other reasons. They are not IMGs who became US citizens. They are U.S. citizens who became IMGs and now returning home. Common destinations are UK, Canada, and Caribeans. Please educate urself

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@olorogun_ugh @grok what movie is this?