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Jason Padgett, el hombre que se convirtió en un genio de las matemáticas después de sufrir una golpiza
Hablar de la adolescencia o la juventud significa usualmente revivir grandes momentos con la familia o amigos, pero Jason Padgett opina lo contrario. El hombre de 53 años, nacido en Alaska, Estados Unidos, y ahora considerado un genio de la matemática, reveló que le avergonzaba esa etapa de su vida, pues "llevaba una vida muy superficial. Solo me interesaban las chicas, las fiestas y el alcohol"
No le gustaba la escuela ni la universidad, incluso la dejó para apoyar a su padre en su negocio de muebles. Profesionalmente, no había progresado ni destacado, más que en sus cursos de preálgebra, esa era su rutina: "El estereotipo del idiota que ves entrando a un bar... ese era yo"
Jason Padgett seguía el estilo de la década de los 80. "Al estilo de pelo corto (en la parte de) arriba y largo atrás y vestía chalecos de cuero sin camiseta"
Así asistió a un karaoke en la noche del viernes 13 de septiembre de 2002, en Tacoma, Washington, donde se había mudado hace días.
Estuvo con una amiga y el saliente de ella. Como fanático de Bon Jovi, Padgett cantó “Blaze of Glory". Todo parecía perfecto, hasta que, desde el escenario, vio a dos hombres sentados en una esquina. No le dio importancia y tampoco imaginó que ellos le cambiarían la vida.
Llegó la hora de retirarse. Jason caminaba tranquilo, pero luego escuchó y sintió un fuerte golpe repentinamente. Cayó de rodillas y los hombres le golpeaban la cabeza. "Vi una luz blanca, como si alguien hubiera sacado una foto"
Los atacantes no se detenían y Jason solo quería morderles las piernas como último acto “antes de morir”. La amiga no hacía nada, pues estaba en shock, y su amigo solo levantó los brazos y huyó. Lo más frustrante era que los aún asistentes del karaoke miraban el ataque desde las ventanas y no reaccionaban o pedían ayuda.
"De pronto uno de los hombres me dijo: 'Dame tu chaqueta' (era una chaqueta de cuero de apenas US$99) y fue recién ahí que me di cuenta de que era un asalto"
Totalmente herido, Padgett se dirigió a un hospital, que, por suerte, estaba cerca. Los doctores le dijeron que tenía una conmoción cerebral y que le sangraba el riñón, pero aun así solo le inyectaron analgésicos y lo enviaron a casa.
Jason estaba teniendo frecuentes pesadillas que lo alertaron. Según los especialistas, había desarrollado un trastorno obsesivo compulsivo (TOC). Ya no quería salir, prefería estar encerrado en casa y se volvió obsesivo con la limpieza. "Tenía un miedo irracional a los gérmenes. Me lavaba las manos cientos de veces al día", admitió antes de señalar que también desinfectaba su dinero, limpiando cada billete. Esa nueva rutina duró tres años. Sin embargo, eso no era todo.
"Todo lo veía ligeramente pixelado. Las nubes, el Sol (...) Miraba el agua irse por el desagüe y veía tangentes, con líneas como olas, que se cruzaban (…) Era hermoso, pero al mismo tiempo daba miedo"
El detalle estaba en que esas formas pixeleadas se movían en una cuadrícula. "Era como un videojuego y se veía como algo matemático"
Fue tanta la curiosidad que investigó y aprendió sobre la geometría fractal, una forma matemática descubierta por el francés Benoit Mandelbrot.
A la pregunta de qué trata esa rama de la matemática, Padgett responde que “es como la pantalla de una televisión (...) los pequeños cuadraditos de color van formando cuadraditos más grandes. Así se forma todo". En ese momento, empezó a dibujar las figuras fractales sin parar. Este nuevo interés lo llevó a salir de su aislamiento.
Pese a ese cambio positivo, se respaldó de un psicólogo para su TOC y se inscribió en un curso de matemáticas en la universidad, donde conoció a su actual esposa, Elena Padgett. "Mi vida mejoró drásticamente", declaró emocionado al programa.
Tras una serie de resonancias cerebrales, lo confirmó y también supo que tenía sinestesia, trastorno por el que los sentidos se mezclan. Esto explicaba la forma en que veía las matemáticas.
Jason Padgett sintió un gran alivio al conocer su diagnóstico.
Con el paso del tiempo, Padgett escribió un libro "Struck by genius" ("Un golpe de genialidad") y viajó por el mundo contando su historia. Su fama creció tanto que uno de sus atacantes del 2002 logró contactarlo y pedirle perdón. El genio de las matemáticas lo aceptó y felicitó porque también había mejorado su vida. "Volvería a pasar por todo lo mismo para lograr este despertar matemático. Es mágico"
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A Brain Injury turned him into a Math Genius
Jason Padgett had dropped out of Tacoma (Wash.) Community College, and was a self-described “goof” with zero interest in academics, let alone math. The only time he dealt in numbers was to track the hours until his shift ended at his father’s furniture store, tally up his bar tab, or count bicep curls at the gym.
With his mullet, leather vest open to a bare chest, and skintight pants, he was more like a high-school student stuck in the 1980s — even though it was 2002, and he was a 31-year-old with a daughter. He would race his buddies in a freshly painted red Camaro. His life was one adrenaline rush after another: cliff-jumping, sky-diving, bar-hopping. He was the “life of the party.” The guy who would funnel a beer before going out and would slip a bottle of Southern Comfort in his jacket pocket to avoid paying $6 for mixed drinks.
Party time came to end the night of Friday, Sept. 13, 2002, at a karaoke bar near his home. There, two men attacked him from behind, punching him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. He fell to the ground as the two men punched and kicked him, stopping only when he handed over his worthless jacket. He was rushed to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a bruised kidney. He was released that same night.
The next morning, while running the water in the bathroom, he noticed “lines emanating out perpendicularly from the flow. At first, he was startled, and worried. Days went by, but the visuals remained. Padgett, who had scored relatively high on IQ tests in elementary school but reached only pre-algebra in high school, soon became “obsessed with every shape in my house, from rectangles of the windows to the curvature of a spoon.” When he looked at numbers, colorful shapes superimposed over them. He stopped going to work and began to read anything he could get his hands on about math and physics. He developed a fascination with fractals and pi.
The doctors called what happened to him a “profound concussion.” Little did they know just how profound it was. Padgett is one of only 40 people in the world with “acquired savant syndrome,” a condition in which prodigious talents in math, art or music emerge in previously normal individuals following a brain injury or disease.
There were downsides that came along with the new Padgett. Once gregarious and outgoing, he now refused to leave the house. He nailed blankets to the window and refused visitors. He became obsessed with germs and washed his hands until they were red and raw. He couldn’t even hug his own daughter until she washed her hands. He began to fear that this wasn’t a gift at all — that it all was a sign of mental illness.
Padgett reached out to Wisconsin psychiatrist Dr. Darold Treffert, the world-recognized expert on savantism who had studied Kim Peek. Via e-mail — and later in person — Treffert diagnosed Padgett with acquired savant syndrome, one of only 30 people identified at the time. Padgett wasn’t alone, and this comforted him. He tore the blankets off the windows and enrolled in a local community college.
He is now an author, artist and mathematician.
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A Brain Injury turned him into a Math Genius
Jason Padgett had dropped out of Tacoma (Wash.) Community College, and was a self-described “goof” with zero interest in academics, let alone math. The only time he dealt in numbers was to track the hours until his shift ended at his father’s furniture store, tally up his bar tab, or count bicep curls at the gym.
With his mullet, leather vest open to a bare chest, and skintight pants, he was more like a high-school student stuck in the 1980s — even though it was 2002, and he was a 31-year-old with a daughter. He would race his buddies in a freshly painted red Camaro. His life was one adrenaline rush after another: cliff-jumping, sky-diving, bar-hopping. He was the “life of the party.” The guy who would funnel a beer before going out and would slip a bottle of Southern Comfort in his jacket pocket to avoid paying $6 for mixed drinks.
Party time came to end the night of Friday, Sept. 13, 2002, at a karaoke bar near his home. There, two men attacked him from behind, punching him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. He fell to the ground as the two men punched and kicked him, stopping only when he handed over his worthless jacket. He was rushed to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a bruised kidney. He was released that same night.
The next morning, while running the water in the bathroom, he noticed “lines emanating out perpendicularly from the flow. At first, he was startled, and worried. Days went by, but the visuals remained. Padgett, who had scored relatively high on IQ tests in elementary school but reached only pre-algebra in high school, soon became “obsessed with every shape in my house, from rectangles of the windows to the curvature of a spoon.” When he looked at numbers, colorful shapes superimposed over them. He stopped going to work and began to read anything he could get his hands on about math and physics. He developed a fascination with fractals and pi.
The doctors called what happened to him a “profound concussion.” Little did they know just how profound it was. Padgett is one of only 40 people in the world with “acquired savant syndrome,” a condition in which prodigious talents in math, art or music emerge in previously normal individuals following a brain injury or disease.
There were downsides that came along with the new Padgett. Once gregarious and outgoing, he now refused to leave the house. He nailed blankets to the window and refused visitors. He became obsessed with germs and washed his hands until they were red and raw. He couldn’t even hug his own daughter until she washed her hands. He began to fear that this wasn’t a gift at all — that it all was a sign of mental illness.
Padgett reached out to Wisconsin psychiatrist Dr. Darold Treffert, the world-recognized expert on savantism who had studied Kim Peek. Via e-mail — and later in person — Treffert diagnosed Padgett with acquired savant syndrome, one of only 30 people identified at the time. Padgett wasn’t alone, and this comforted him. He tore the blankets off the windows and enrolled in a local community college.
He is now an author, artist and mathematician.
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Quantum Hand Through My Eyes Drawing by Jason Padgett
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Treffert theorizes that savant abilities arise from a process he calls the three Rs: recruitment, rewiring and release. Damage occurs within the cortex of one brain hemisphere, either congenitally or through trauma, causing the recruitment of undamaged areas to compensate. Rewiring occurs, and the dormant ability in the newly wired area is released. Support for this theory comes from individuals with acquired savant syndrome, people who suddenly manifest extraordinary abilities after a traumatic injury or a catastrophic medical event such as a stroke.
One example of such an individual is Jason Padgett, who was attacked and mugged while out with friends. He sustained a blow to the back of his head causing damage to the right hemisphere, which profoundly altered how his brain worked. As the left hemisphere rewired to compensate, the algebra dropout could now understand math and physics and was able to see mathematical geometric patterns in everything he observed (another form of synesthesia). This case, and others like it, reveals far greater plasticity of the adult brain in its ability to heal and rewire itself than initially thought.
-- Christian Smith, The Scientist and the Psychic
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Congratulations!!! to the entire team of Smothered! We got 11 Indie Series Awards Nominations for Season 2!!! #grateful #lgbtqia #comedy #workignactors. We are so excited and a big thank you to all who voted for us!
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Carlyle King, Mitch Hara & Jason Stuart
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SALE IMAGE: Camden Padgett & Jason J. Purdy DATE: 10/18/2023 ADDRESS: 10775 Yeager Road MARKET: Jacksonville ASSET TYPE: Industrial BUYER: Massy Distribution BROKERS: Camden Padgett & Jason J. Purdy - NAI Capital (@NAICapital) SALE PRICE: $24,500,000 SF: 170,240 ~ PPSF: $144 NOTE: Massy Distribution, a global company, has purchased an industrial property in Imeson Industrial Park on the Northside for $24.5 million. The property at 10775 Yeager Road includes 170,240 square feet of warehouse space and 1,896 square feet of office space, offering a strategic location near JAX Airport, downtown, and Jaxport. #Miami #RealEstate #tradedmia #MIA #Jacksonville #Industrial #CamdenPadgett #JasonJPurdy #NAICapital #MassyDistribution
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“In 2002, Jason Padgett was the victim of a vicious beating outside a karaoke bar in Tacoma, Washington. Upon regaining consciousness, Padgett’s sight was forever altered by a condition called acquired savant syndrome. The brain trauma opened his eyes to an entirely new world—one filled with patterns and strobes, like a stop-motion film
This is a fascinating story into the hidden power of the mind and one man’s inspiring tale of courage and personal triumph
The Acquired Savant is a film by Thomas Petersen”
From Youtube channel Great Big Story: Meet the Accidental Genius
What an incredible story - I hit my head many times before but nothing good happened xD
Enjoy...
#Great Big Story#Meet the Accidental Genius#Jason Padgett#vicious beating#sight#acquired savant syndrome#savant#syndrome#brain#brain trauma#geometry#math#mathematics#everything is math#the universe is math#genius#smart#storytelling#Thomas Petersen#patterns#strobes#hidden power#The Acquired Savant#OCD#obsessive compulsive disorder
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#Jason Padgett#savant#reality#relativity#science#infinity#Acquired Savant Syndrome#physics#alternate reality
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Does Jason Padgett Know?
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#breaking news#news#science#physics#quantum#quantum physics#CERN#super computer#blackhole#black hole#artificial intelligence#AI#krishna#krishna's wheel#jason padgett
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not to be dramatic but I’d absolutely die for dr spencer reid
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Many writers celebrate National Poetry Month by writing a new poem each day. This April, celebrate with your students in this popular and widespread writing challenge and create 30 poems in 30 days! Use this as an opportunity to explore different poetic forms and prompts, letting you and your students release the “inner-editor” voice and allow your poetic creativity to flow throughout the month.
30 poetry lessons for 30 days of Poetry
“Exploring Disability Justice through Writing” by Jennifer Bartlett
“Persona Poetry and Mask-Making: Unity for Middle School students” by Jacy Bryla
“I Remember” by Matthew Burgess (Writing Our Way Through)
“‘What If’: Trusting Students with Difficult and Challenging Model Texts” by Brittny Ray Crowell
“Teaching the Tritina and Unraveling Oppression with High School Students” by Trace DePass
“Two Poetry Prompts to Inspire Immigrant Teens” by Sarah Dohrmann
“Investigation Poetry” by Sherese Francis (Writing Our Way Through)
“The Map as Metaphor: Poetic Cartographies in the Virtual Classroom” by Joanna Fuhrman
“List Poems Inspired by Daily Life” by Melanie M. Goodreaux-Fiedler
Collage Poems with “The Jumblies” by Amina Henry
“Who Am I? Exploring Stereotypes and Identity Through Poetry” by Javan Howard
“Origin Story Lesson Plan Using Afro-Latina by Elizabeth Acevedo” by Candice Iloh
“What’s in a Name? Finding Hidden Pictures in the letters of the Alphabet” by Frank Ingrasciotta (Writing Our Way Through)
“The Lune Link” by Susan Karwoska
“Sensory Language” by Jason Leahey
“Reviving Revision through Storytelling and Poetry” by Caron Levis (Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry)
Making Small Moments Big: Teaching Haiku with Sydell Rosenberg by Erika Luckert
“Shout Out Poems” by Libby Mislan
“Rain Can be Anything: Kindergarten Poetry Lesson” by Linda Morel
“Teaching Poetry as a Part of Real Life” by Naomi Shahib Nye
“The Walk Poem” by Ron Padgett
“Math Meets Verse: Counting, Decoding, & Rhythm” by Alice Pencavel
“Visual Poems” by Maya Pindyck
“Rosebuds Folded Over in Sleep: Teaching the Sonnets of Ishle Yi Park to High School Students”, “Personification and War Poetry” by Bushra Rehman
“The Taste of Happiness” by Harriet Riley
“Odes in Science: A Lesson Plan” by Bertha Rogers
“Hidden Beauty: Using a Poem by Jane Cortez” by Mark Statman
“Found Poetry & Accessibility” by Donnie Welch
“Finding Your Voices: How Jericho Brown, Diana Ross and Janis Joplin Can Inspire Student Writing” by Tiphanie Yanique (Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry)
“Writing a Dream Poem” by Bill Zavatsky
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