Being smart is one thing, but the fact of the matter is that if you have a normal brain, you are smart.
Any average person can do anything.
Dr. Carson, who is currently director of pediatric neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins University, pointed to his own experiences as proof of that statement. At age 10, he noted, he was living in a tenement with his brother and mother, a divorcee who held down two to three jobs as a domestic worker. Within a year and a half, I went from being at the bottom of the class to the top of the class. Here was this black kid in Motown driving around listening to Mozart. The alumnus also revealed that his brother went on to become an engineer, and his mother eventually taught herself to read, went to college and became an interior decorator.