Its a small world and indeed mesmerizing just how things apparently so distant may almost simultaneously feel so close!..Of course technology clearly qualifies that tendency today. Anyway, I came upon an article where two words caught the side of my eye, and evoked instant dejavu, and I proceeded to take a closer look. I was spot on! This fella Bethuel Mbugua came through and was at the pool where I grew up, and someone said yadi yada…“some genius from I don’t know where and that he was there to give some lecture”.
He was about our age and actually looked and sounded very normal just like any other another kid, save for the fact he had on ear plugs, plus, the whole time his eyes were unblinkingly trained on our across the street neighbor chick, who had, well, as Sisqo would have it, “dumps like a truck luo style”. Immediately I am done here I’m going straight to FB to mock her a little bit.
A child prodigy excellent in especially human anatomy. I suspect his was eidetic from the description. Ability to clearly recollect in flashes copious amounts of information in a brief time period. That supposition hinges on the fact the tendency appeared to dwindle with age as in his case, and it was not “crunching power”, or ability to correlate complex constructs.
Many “crunch type” tend towards Engineering, and “recollect type” medicine, and of course this is not always the case by any stretch, neither is it a universal sweeping generalization, but rather a tendency. We had a perfect example in high school.
This one guy was absolutely no joke in “recollect” style subjects with more of a tendency of 96 to 97% in things like RE, Biology, Geography etc., but barely could make past about 70% in Maths(the problem here predominantly algebra vs the basic arithmetic) and Physics, and he sure enough dropped Physics after Form 2, and ended up with an A 92 points in KCSE, and sure enough, with Maths contributing 2 points to that tally at B+, and one other subject, and very likely averaged over 90 to 95% in the rest, and proceeded on to become a Medical Doctor and Pharmacist. I personally didn’t tolerate well recollection subjects but with an opposite effect in Maths, Physics, and Chem, literally the only ones i studied, and convincingly straight up BSing my way right through much else, and begrudgingly trudged along with Biology, which I did well in but paid no attention to, not least of the reasons among which, I despised botany and evolution. Anyway, some of you might have heard about, or met Bethuel, and he looks precisely the same now as he did back then, and back then with a “box style” hair cut , but I got no idea what became of him.
Enjoy.
For those who need a refresher on Sisqo;