If You Think You’re Stupid, You May Be in Luck! This is For You. (And Everyone Else, Too.)
Street magicians and stage magicians alike are most often known for marketing their “superhuman abilities” which are actually just sleight of hand or works of illusion. These people are just your average, everyday people that have very particular skills, yet they sometimes become celebrities, famous to the point of being world renowned. Nearly everyone knows or has at one point heard of Harry Houdini, David Copperfield, Criss Angel, or Penn and Teller, all of which are men famous for their skills in illusion which we commonly call “magic” even though any competent adult (and most kids, honestly) know that it is not actually magic. In the same way, there are other qualities that are seemingly superhuman but are really just… well, human. In Plato’s “Apology” from The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues , Socrates talks about an extraordinary intelligence or wisdom that others may have, but he definitely does not. He describes his form of wisdom as “such wisdom as is attainabl...