In our book (pages 16 - 17 for those following along at home), we ask, "How smart do you feel today?" Then we offer a scale and propose that you plot yourself on it.
Depending on how much sleep you got last night, maybe you feel pretty good this morning. Maybe you even feel smarter than a:
Or maybe you're running on only 90 minutes of sleep (for the whole night). In which case you may feel like you are about as smart and driven as:
When we were trying to come up with these "measurement items" for the scale, one of the first ideas I had for the LOW end was a june bug.
I don't know if you encounter these bugs where you live, but they are truly shocking in their un-intelligence. They fly right at your head, they bonk into walls. They careen around wildly through the air. I'm petrified that one (or more - ack!) will get stuck in my hair.
For the high end of the scale, we were considering many options. Thomas Edison? Marie Curie? Mahatma Gandhi? But then we realized, no. There was someone wiser and more influential than all these people combined. Yes, that's right:
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go enjoy the fruits of this discovery. So I can feel as smart as a robot vacuum today.
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