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It’s difficult on a phone to answer this comprehensively because I can’t read your initial comment and respond at the same time, so I’m restricted to memory of easy things I can cite, rather than quoting whole pieces of text or explaining where a word is missing and would support clarity.

Your constant capitalization of “You” is a bizarre style choice, assuming you know it’s grammatically incorrect.

You use hyphens instead of em dashes.

You used a period after an ellipses in the middle of a sentence. Periods fall at the ends of sentences, therefore we only use four dots at the end of a sentence.

We don’t start sentences with numerals. We have to write out the word.

In your first paragraph, you hyphenated “genius-people.” The hyphen was unnecessary. Better writing would be “people who are intelligent, gifted, or geniuses.”

Your writing, the way you organize your thoughts, is unpublishable. And seeing as I was a gifted kid and have gifted kids, including a kid with an IQ of 146 (though IQs determined before age 7 are considered unstable) whose intelligence is well-rounded, and she can write better than you with fewer errors, I have a hard time imagining how someone with an IQ of 166, well-rounded, couldn’t pick up on grammar rules better than my kids and I. It’s hard to not feel skeptical.

What do you do with this genius?

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Natasha Coulis, Strategy-minded non-fiction writer
Natasha Coulis, Strategy-minded non-fiction writer

Written by Natasha Coulis, Strategy-minded non-fiction writer

How to strategically survive and thrive in a high-conflict, low-trust world. Focus: Critical thinking, relationships, politics, relationships, motherhood.

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