Tony Buzan - And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did

And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that?

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Buzan, Tony. "The Power of a Mind to Map." TEDxSquareMile, Nov. 2012, London. Lecture.

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