<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 24, 2022, at 11:44 AM, Gadersd via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">If everyone were an Einstein who would want to be a farmer or artist? </div></blockquote><br><div>Don’t be so sure about that. </div><div><br></div><div>Me and people like me have many options. It’s good to have options. I am an artist at heart. Yet I have an IQ over 140 and a doctorate. I knows some brilliant people who have gone on to mainly do agriculture. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, the analyses of personality/occupational types Leary did in the 50s shows people are drawn to certain societal roles based on personality, and I posit these wouldn’t change if say I did a genetic modification to make me not have high blood pressure. But who really knows yet what is connected to what gene-wise and epigentically. </div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:F210FA8B-F712-4896-9E65-C64EEFC7DB0C" width="600" alt="659-2-large.gif"></div><div><h5 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 15px 0px 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, Cambria, serif;">Adapted from Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality(p. 65) by T Leary, 1957, New York: Ronald.</h5></div><div><br></div><div>- Henry</div></div></body></html>