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The Cute College Girl – A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, when I was in college there was this freshman girl, really cute, bubbly, smiling, attractive. She had a personality that simply drew others to her. People could not help but like her. One Saturday night at a party I had opportunity to talk to her, just the two of us. Boy howdy, I was one lucky country boy! It only took a few minutes of small talk to discover she was… different. Her thinking was unique. She made non sequitur comments, and she laughed a lot.

“Do you know a horse?”, she would ask.
“Well, My body is mine.”
“I just love long sleeve vests!”
“My past is not a burden.”

All the time talking nearly nonstop, with expression and confidence.

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Multipotentiality

My dad was a multipotentialite. Don’t know what that is? Neither did I. But when I recently learned about multipotentiality I knew I found a term that described him. Multipotentiality has only become a thing in the past ten years. It describes people whose interests cannot be confined to a single activity and it accurately describes my dad.

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Geek, Nerd, Dork or Dweeb?

This beautiful diagram is best definition I have found those of us who are more complex than ordinary folk. Not entirely complementary, but accurate.

If a picture is 1,000 words, then a well-crafted diagram is 10 times that.

In November, 2010 BBC Four aired a 6 part series titled “The Beauty of Diagrams”. In the series, beginning with the Vitruvian Man, mathematician  Marcus du Sautoy explains how and why pictures really do serve a thousand or more words. It is currently available on BBC’s iPlayer, and possibly on internet repositories like Netflix.

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