Intelligence is different from person to person. I used to work at a hardware store, and some winters when work is slow I go back for fun and work a few weeks leading up to Xmas. Very wealthy neighborhood where it was located, so many customers didn't know shit, but a couple came in professing engineer status and it was fun putting them in their place. One guy was a highly paid rocket scientist and it was insane dealing with him. He'd come in with these hand drawn blueprints for shit and try and explain his ideas for abnormal home fixer uppers, and while I'll give him that he did indeed have problems that needed think outside the box, I became his favorite because I wouldn't lose my temper with him like some of the other staff, I could tell him to slow down for a minute, and would have to help him un-overengineer his ideas and simplify everything and you could tell the project was overwhelming to him because he'd come in red faced and veins popping and you could tell he had been struggling all day with it and was too proud to listen to his wife about letting a handyman do it, and he'd get watery eyed and act like I just saved his kid with brain surgery after every visit, saying thankyou over and over lol.
It was same at steel forgery where I worked. I had no experience with hydraulic forging presses, was just a young guy who could weld, I had to deal with hoity toity engineers a lot, and for them, they weren't in the union so their careers depended on solutions they were supposed to know, and I often had to just tell them to calm down and get out of my way so I could save their job doing what looked obvious to me and was a theoretical nightmare for them. I would laugh at them, they'd be so fucking upset with me because they thought I was breaking the rules but I just kept solving the problems and they kept having jobs so it worked out.
Meanwhile, I have decent literacy but read and comprehend at extremely slow level (I can write a paragraph faster than I can read one, which is a dangerous slope lol) terrible attn span, and mathematics is not a strong area at all (I know what I know, but my strength lies in things I do like money, measurements, time, and musical application). I found it much easier to measure 1 or 2 parts of a fabrication to "outline" the overall size of something and then just eyeball everything else and do the sizing as was literally tack welding the work piece together.
My brother unfortunately denied himself a proper education, mental illness made it hard for him to be taught, he was essentially babysat during school because he would just talk over anyone trying to teach him, just preferred to hear his own voice and opinion on a subject he knew nothing about, but when his sickness got so bad he basically became a shut in, he started doing everything from engine rebuilds to computer programming software, music editing, building 3d printers and fabricating unique parts for his builds of various sorts, robotics... all this shit we have no ability to connect with him on, and we have no idea how he's figured it all out, but we are happy he is using his mind. Yet, the other day he asked me how to spell the word "believe". Go figure.
I dont think Floyd is a moron by any stretch, but clearly that is one area of his mind that doesn't fire like the rest of his qualities. Everyone has different strengths. He might seem totally brainless when it comes to speaking, reading, and who knows what else, but he seems to be another species of higher intelligence in the ring, and as Jake the Snake once said, "We all do things differently", meaning if it gets the job done, then you have a set of tools that are of value even if not everyone sees the world the same as you. Floyd has pissed away more money than this entire forum will ever make combined, including everyone who's ever been banned, let alone what he has made with his mind. He changed the game and made prize fighting bigger than any sport by being the highest paid athlete in sports, and he doesnt care what you guys think about his reading level or vocabulary. End of the day, money is food, shelter, and quality of life, and he has more than you by a mile. Kinda the point of existence fyi, an education is just a means to get those things, but you get them how you can, Floyd did it his way.
