GT Seminar 1: Chris Langan: "The Smartest Man in America"

Personally, I feel Chris Langan is not successful. To me, success means to excell at something and to get the job done. Langan had so much potential. Being the "smartest man in the world," you would have expected him to be a little wiser in his choices. Langan scored a perfect score on his SAT tests. With an incredible score like that, Langan should be helping out the country. He has so much intelligence and he is basically wasting it. However, Chris Langan does not have a bad life. He has a wife and owns/lives on a horse ranch in Missouri. This doesn't sound like a terrible life! It was just not lived to its fullest potential. Chris Langan has so much more to offer, but because of his bad luck in the past, I feel the need to call him unsuccessful. According to my definition of success, Langan does not reach it. In the dictionary, however, success is defined as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. In Langan's life, it didnt seem as though there was any real purpose. He did not apply himself as much as he could have, and did not accomplish any purposes. Therefore, I believe that though Chris Langan is "the smartest man in the world," he was not a very successful man.