Meet Christopher Langan, The Smartest Man In The World.

Christopher Langan is an American genius who is considered by many as the smartest man in the world due to his brain capabilities. His IQ was estimated to be between 195 and 210.

For the sake of emphasis, an average person has an IQ of 100; Albert Einstein had an IQ of 150, Issac Newton’s estimated IQ is 190, and Mark Zuckerberg’s IQ is 152. But, Christopher Langan exceeded all these.

Early Life

Langan was born in 1952 in San Francisco, California. He began to speak at six months of age. When he was three, he would listen to the radio on Sundays as the announcer reads the comics aloud and follow along on his own until he had taught himself to read.

At the age of 5, he began to question his Grandfather about the existence of God – and remembers being disappointed in the answers he got.  In school, Langan would walk into a test in a foreign language class, not having studied at all, he would skim through the textbook and ace the test.

In his early teenage years, while working as a farmhand, he started to read widely in the area of theoretical physics. At sixteen, he made his way through Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s famously abstruse masterpiece Principia Mathematica. He got a perfect score on his SAT, even though he fell asleep at one point during the test.

By the time Christopher Langan was fourteen, he would draw things just as a joke, and it would be like a photograph. When he was fifteen, he could match Jimi Hendrix lick for lick on a guitar.

Education

Christopher Langan

Throughout his stay in high school, Christopher didn’t attend school at all. He would just show up for tests. Langan could brief a semester’s worth of textbooks in two days, and take care of whatever he had to take care of, and then get back to whatever he was doing in the first place.

He spent his last years engaged mostly in an independent study. He did so after his teachers denied his request for more challenging material. According to Langan, he began teaching himself “advanced math, physics, philosophy, Latin, and Greek”

Christopher began to lift weight at the age of 12 to stick up for himself and his brothers who were usually bullied by his stepfather, Jack Langan,  who was  been described as a “failed journalist”

One day, when Chris was fourteen, Jack Langan got rough with the boys, as he sometimes did, and Chris knocked him out cold. Jack left, never to return.

Upon graduation from high school, Chris was offered two full scholarships, one to Reed College in Oregon and the other to the University of Chicago.

He chose Reed which he later called “a big mistake”; he had a “real case of culture shock” in the unfamiliar urban setting. Langan lost his scholarship after his mother did not send in the necessary financial information.

Career

Christopher Langan as A Bouncer on Long Island

Christopher Logan returned home and worked as a Forest Service firefighter for 18 months before enrolling at Montana State University taking math and philosophy classes

He dropped out of Montana State University due to financial and transportation issues. He however believed he could do without the higher education system due to the rigid bureaucratic system that refused him help when he needed it.

Chris Langan’s experiences at Reed and Montana State represented a turning point in his life. As a child, he had dreamt of becoming an academic.

He would have gotten a Ph.D.; universities are institutions structured, in large part, for people with his kind of deep intellectual interests and curiosity. ”

Without a degree, Langan floundered. He worked in construction, he worked on a clam boat on Long Island. He took factory jobs and minor civil service positions and eventually became a bouncer in a bar on Long Island, which was his principal occupation for much of his adult years.

Christopher Langan and his wife Dr. Gina

Through it all, he continued to read deeply in philosophy, mathematics, and physics as he worked on a sprawling treatise he calls the “CTMU”—the “Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe.” But without academic credentials, he despairs of ever getting published in a scholarly journal.

In 1999, Langan and others formed a non-profit corporation named the Mega Foundation for those with IQs of 164 or above. In 2004, Langan moved with his wife Gina, a clinical neuropsychologist, to northern Missouri, where he owns and operates a horse ranch and undertakes activities for his Mega Foundation.

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