I am not sure how I ended up thinking about this but I did. If you have not read the book Bringing Down The House. I would read it if you have time. Do not watch the movie(not the Queen Latifa one) the book is much better. Basically a bunch of brainiacs from MIT used the fact that they can memorize what cards have been played to their advantage in the game of blackjack in Vegas. These kids are so far past smart, they are Crazy Smart. I met so many people at MIT that were this way. There were guys that could multiply two four digit numbers in their head. I would say ”quick what is 2456 X 5892 and with out even hesitating they would give me the answer. It got to the point that when they would do this it was unsettling. Here is my top ten list of people that I spend time with that are Crazy Smart
1. Sybille Pierce . Sybille is simply the smartest person I know. She can quickly figure things out she has never learned before and on top of that she has crazy access to everything she has ever been told ever. She is MIT smart. I keep telling her she should go to law school. Forget Creighton, she should apply to Stanford. Although, not sure if Mark would move.
2. Steve Filips I hate to even say this beause this will go right to his head 
In high school Steve got the best grades and he still does. Current GPA at UNO is 4.0. If Steve does not get a 100% on a test, there was probably an error in grading, the worst part is, he is normally right
3. Luke Paladino. My mother put mirrors in his crib and all kinds of mobiles in his crib when he was a baby. When he was 3 years old, he was playing Mozart on a violin. Luke is the best also writer I know, he got all the spelling genes I do not have.
4. Wayne Kiltz. Wayne was scary smart. You would talk to him and he would memorize everything you said. Two years latter he would say. You said, such and such on this date. This made it very hard to not write everything down you told him. It also makes you a better employee when the guy you are working for remembers things about your job better than you do.
5. Lisa Paladino. Undergraduate Major in Software Engineering. with a minor in User Graphical Interface Design and another minor in Mathematics. Who in there right mind gets a minor in mathematics? Not only that she took Calculus at Bunker Hill College. This is the Community College across the street from MIT
6. Paul Ludacka. Put simply I have never seen anyone memorize as many bible versus as Paul. He can also write upside down and you can read it.
7. Cindy Paladino. In addition to being one of the smartest people I know, she is arguably the hardest worker I have ever met in my entire life, ever period.
8.Roberto Huerta. Roberto is the sub that built Center Street and the 4 story on Second Ave in Des Monies. Don’t let his accent fool you. He can read blue prints with the best off them. He is one of those quite smart guys. You know what I mean, the kind you can never figure out
9. Tammy Hatfield. In my opionion anyone that knows how to work on anything mechanical is smart. Tammy first blew our minds away when she was plowing one night and there was antifreeze on the floor of the cab of the plow truck and said she was not sure but the heater core was probably out. We took it in and she was right.
10. Kurtis Kammerer Jr. 33 on his ACT! And he only took it once. I got a 21. Not only that he was on the Class C-2 state champion runner up football team and basketball team, he took state in golf as a Junior. College? Academic Full ride at UNO of Course. Oh and he plays the guitar with the best of them.
John Maxwell says that the person you will be in five years is most influenced by 1. The books you read and 2. the people you associate with. Who do you associate with? Are they crazy Smart?
up next the 10 hardest working people I know
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