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Re:Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf] by scoot on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:27AM (#16352250)
”one could increase the odds of finding useful outcomes when "suspending" critical thinking”

AKA The Balmer peak? http://observer.com/2012/04/bottoms-up-the-ballmer-peak-is-r...

Re:Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (1996) [pdf] by elcritch on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:17AM (#16357085)
Ha! Pretty clever, and it does hit upon a point I was trying to make that achieving the perfect balance of suspending critical thinking is hard! Too much or too little by a hair’s breadth and you end up with Windows ME.