VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)

Good Will Hunting starring Matt Damon

How do we define terms such as “mental disorder”, “mental illness”, and “genius”?

Vocabulary

defect – flaw
physically defective – adj

übermensch – overman – supermen

sociopath – who literally cannot feel normal human emotion

hereditary / heritable – can be inherited

first principles – the core

if it’s linked – if it’s related – if there’s crossover between different industries

Grammar

so if a person’s mentally ill then…

God created human in his own image
God created humans / man in his own image

the need he is not obtained in his infant time
the need he had not obtained in his infancy

it’s all past / passed
it has passed
it’s all in the past

we changed the calculation of / for project cost