Kim Peek and the market
After reading about the real rain man “mega-savant,” Kim Peek, I bet he would be great at the stock market.
Mr Peek, 53, is called a “mega-savant” because he is a genius in about 15 subjects, from history and literature to numbers, sports, music and dates… However, he is severely limited in other ways. Simple tasks such as finding the cutlery drawer at home can bewilder him, and he has difficulties dressing himself…
Mr Peek spends afternoons at the Salt Lake City Public Library poring over books, even memorising telephone directories… Mr Peek has been able to memorise more than 9,000 books.
If you let him loose on the internet, I bet his brain would fill up in 3 or 4 days.
