Scott Adams: The Social Network, "The best movie I've ever seen"

Re:Scott Adams: The Social Network, "The best movie I've eve... by olalonde on Thursday October 07, 2010 @03:13PM (#1769059)

You are right, he certainly is extremely talented and intelligent, but I would argue that the genius label is misused here. It seems that mainstream media's tendency nowadays is to label every highly successful business founder as a "genius". In my opinion, Einsteins and Mozarts are geniuses and are much less common than people who build successful businesses.

That being said, I think there is absolutely no reason to dismiss what Zuckerberg did or claim that it was all luck. Just don't fall into sensationalism and call him a genius.

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Re:Scott Adams: The Social Network, "The best movie I've eve... by tdfx on Thursday October 07, 2010 @11:41PM (#1770506)

I prefer to label successful businessmen as socially or emotionally intelligent. Building a business requires many things, but the type of "genius" that we got from great physicists and artists is certainly not analogous to bringing people together and making money. It's a different measure of intelligence, but one that I think is more able to be learned than a gift for the natural sciences.

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Re:Scott Adams: The Social Network, "The best movie I've eve... by maguay on Friday October 08, 2010 @08:17AM (#1771377)

At least genius is a better term to throw around loosely than ninja or rockstar IMO...

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