One of the smartest, perhaps the smartest person on the planet, Kim Ung-Yong, was doing calculus and speaking five languages before age five. By age eight, he was doing math at NASA.
His intelligence amazed everyone around him.
One day, a reporter asked him, “Kim, with a mind like yours, what do you find most difficult?”
Kim thought for a moment.
“Understanding people,” he replied.
The reporter smiled.
“Why is that?”
Kim pointed toward a nearby table where two men were arguing over a simple math problem.
“They’ve been arguing for twenty minutes,” he said.
The reporter looked confused.
“What are they arguing about?”
Kim smiled.
“They both have the same answer.”
“Then what’s the problem?”
“They don’t agree on who thought of it first.”
