The BlackBerry Problem | The Mistakes Series

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And then, a few years later, you have an even more important realization, which is that smart comes in many different varieties. I feel I spent my adolescence cataloguing all the varieties of smart. There was my high school friend who had a mind that was a giant sponge, that could soak up what seemed like an infinite amount of knowledge. Then I got to college, I met a guy whose thinking seemed effortless. He could be distracted or procrastinating or dancing at a party, it didn't matter.

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