What's it all mean Alphie?

I've often wondered here and in other places what it is that separates the way the ordinary person thinks and the way a genius thinks and less importantly why some in physics and others in the arts? I've recently come to the conclusion that the difference could be competition. Great scientists are intensely curious driven by a competitive need to succeed. An excellent example is the competition between Leonard Susskind, the Bronx plumber and Steven Hawking, the smartest man in the world. Although Susskind won in the end, Hawking went down fighting to the last. And it was based on an arcane physics theory that that threatened the foundation of modern theoretical physics. But the competition drove them both to greater insights.
Figuring out the meaning of the title of this entry to the blog is proof that we're all on this flight together.

Dick