22-year-old becomes youngest IIT teacher

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I was reading about vedic astrology for quite some time. these kind of extreme prodigy cases are mostly attributed to their past life, like if someone had a very passionate goal and was not able to fulfill it due to untimely/unnatural demise, that person might carry on the same zeal and energy or even knowledge and intellect of his pastlife passion to the next life. :S

I just thought of saying this. people who don't believe astrology/esoteric stuff please excuse :P
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People speak like getting into an IIT means that you are somehow more "intelligent" and forward thinking than your peers..it is not so. The smartest people on this planet have had attention spans ranging from a few seconds to a couple of minutes, try cracking IIT-JEE with that much "study time". The reason we don't produce intellectuals and are left to hoo-haa and clap over pseudo intellectuals like this guy is because our education system as well as our population to some extent feel that finishing high school at 9 = super genius when it could be quiet the contrary, the dude could be a rattu tota for all we know. How was his past? If I was thrashed by my parents from 3 years of age and given only one goal, I'd clear high school at 9 too, lol.

There is nothing unique about an IIT or a dude from an IIM other than the fact that they've slogged their asses off to get there and then clear it. Its not intelligence or IQ, its pure, simple hard work.
 
l33t_5n1p3r_max said:
People speak like getting into an IIT means that you are somehow more "intelligent" and forward thinking than your peers..it is not so. The smartest people on this planet have had attention spans ranging from a few seconds to a couple of minutes, try cracking IIT-JEE with that much "study time". The reason we don't produce intellectuals and are left to hoo-haa and clap over pseudo intellectuals like this guy is because our education system as well as our population to some extent feel that finishing high school at 9 = super genius when it could be quiet the contrary, the dude could be a rattu tota for all we know. How was his past? If I was thrashed by my parents from 3 years of age and given only one goal, I'd clear high school at 9 too, lol.

There is nothing unique about an IIT or a dude from an IIM other than the fact that they've slogged their asses off to get there and then clear it. Its not intelligence or IQ, its pure, simple hard work.
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Not necessarily in respect to this guy... but i do agree with your line of thought.
 
@desecrator; The incredible thing is that pretty much all his drawings were of things that he saw irl, drawn from memory.
 
saumilsingh said:
That's a very primitive way of thinking. No doubt this kid is gifted, but he does owe most of it to the right kind of teaching and guidance.
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I beg to differ. Right kind of teaching and guidance means nothing by itself. It does have a impact, but its his own self and his hard work that he owes most for his accomplishments. (I am referring to teachers in a conventional sense here i.e the teachers at schools and colleges)
 
I somehow can't digest the way this kid talks.

When you accomplish so much at such a young age, a little bit of humility helps I guess.. Not to mention that eyesore of a website where he trumpets about being the world's youngest postgrad. Lets not even start about him wanting to get into the Limca book..... :|

Edit - the webpage WAS probably designed when he was a kid.. last updated 2007..
 
chiron said:
@desecrator; The incredible thing is that pretty much all his drawings were of things that he saw irl, drawn from memory.
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Yeah I think I remember that. This kid truly was a prodigy!
 
l33t_5n1p3r_max said:
People speak like getting into an IIT means that you are somehow more "intelligent" and forward thinking than your peers..it is not so. The smartest people on this planet have had attention spans ranging from a few seconds to a couple of minutes, try cracking IIT-JEE with that much "study time". The reason we don't produce intellectuals and are left to hoo-haa and clap over pseudo intellectuals like this guy is because our education system as well as our population to some extent feel that finishing high school at 9 = super genius when it could be quiet the contrary, the dude could be a rattu tota for all we know. How was his past? If I was thrashed by my parents from 3 years of age and given only one goal, I'd clear high school at 9 too, lol.

There is nothing unique about an IIT or a dude from an IIM other than the fact that they've slogged their asses off to get there and then clear it. Its not intelligence or IQ, its pure, simple hard work.
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+1+1+1.

You sir, speak the truth.
 
stalker said:
I somehow can't digest the way this kid talks.

When you accomplish so much at such a young age, a little bit of humility helps I guess.. Not to mention that eyesore of a website where he trumpets about being the world's youngest postgrad. Lets not even start about him wanting to get into the Limca book..... :|

Edit - the webpage WAS probably designed when he was a kid.. last updated 2007..
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Well blowing ones trumpet and that too loud is the standard norm these days....! Meekness and humility are shunned upon. :)
 
^ I somewhat agree. In today's world, if you be too humble and simple, too being the key word, many people may admire you.. but you will surely be trodden upon. Like in the quoted part it is written that he is a fake who is trying to act like a prodigy. Very few people like giving others the respect they deserve.

I too am against being a show-off. But there is small story which I read somewhere.

There was this guy who was liked by everyone. When asked, everyone used to say, " bahut bhala aadmi hai". That guy never used to question anyone, he used to pay bills without checking, very trustworthy and very simple.

One day, he just noticed to glance at his newspaper bill. He noticed that he had been charged twice. He called up the guy and made him correct the bill. Then he realised that almost everyone was taking him for a ride, one way or the other. One by one, he cleared everything. That was the last day he was called a "bhala aadmi" :P
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stalker said:
I somehow can't digest the way this kid talks.

When you accomplish so much at such a young age, a little bit of humility helps I guess.. Not to mention that eyesore of a website where he trumpets about being the world's youngest postgrad. Lets not even start about him wanting to get into the Limca book..... :|
Edit - the webpage WAS probably designed when he was a kid.. last updated 2007..
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Not quite. He has his 'office' address listed here. :P
 
Any of you guys met him? I met him a few times when I was studying in IISc. Not that I know him really well, but best to say that a lot of comments are as good as shooting in the dark. Some of the comments are just influenced by the limited experiences in your lives. Will see if I can post something more later.
 
Sometimes it is our own teachers/elders who are holding us back. For eg, back in high school I came up with a plan for micro-light hand launched UAV's..I put it forward to my physics teacher and the dude replies that the idea was stupid/did not have commercial viability etc etc. Thats where the plan died, switch to the sept 11 bombings/WoT on Afghanistan and these little UAV's are now embedded at platoon level in every western armed force. The companies that manufacture these are raking in billions.

Just goes to show that we should question every single thing we see. This dude might really be an Einstein for all we know, but there is no harm in questioning his capabilities. In any case, he's achieved something that ordinary people don't put their efforts into. That itself is unique in a way.
 
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