People Share The Moment They Knew They Were In The Presence Of A Truly Massive Intellect

Years ago I worked construction with a guy who would casually do wildly complex math problems in his head for fun during lunch breaks. Meanwhile the rest of us were struggling to figure out where we left the tape measure five minutes ago.

To this day I still have no idea why that dude was out there working with us simple folk because he was very clearly brilliant.

That’s what made this Reddit thread so interesting. People shared the exact moments they realized someone was operating on a completely different intellectual level than everyone else in the room, and some of these stories are genuinely mind-blowing.

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