If you have to tell other people that you're smart, then...yeah
Quote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on September 05, 2015, 08:06:14 PMIf you have to tell other people that you're smart, then...yeahDid you ever stop and ever think about that? I certainly question it. Is there really anything inherently wrong with openly admitting that you are smart? Because I'd wager, that sometimes wanting to tell somebody that you are smart can be associated with being pleased with yourself.You do something and it works and you say "damn I'm good." It's a happy feeling and you feel like sharing it, just because of how excited it has you.And then, somebody has the gall to call you insecure or self centered if you so much as do it once.Think about it.We live among a society that openly and actively shuns you if you admit that you're smart in some avenue.Because, apparently, saying "I'm stupid and not smart at all" is the sanest, best thing you can say.Son of a bitch. Is that stupid or what?
Quote from: on September 05, 2015, 08:16:32 PMQuote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on September 05, 2015, 08:06:14 PMIf you have to tell other people that you're smart, then...yeahDid you ever stop and ever think about that? I certainly question it. Is there really anything inherently wrong with openly admitting that you are smart? Because I'd wager, that sometimes wanting to tell somebody that you are smart can be associated with being pleased with yourself.You do something and it works and you say "damn I'm good." It's a happy feeling and you feel like sharing it, just because of how excited it has you.And then, somebody has the gall to call you insecure or self centered if you so much as do it once.Think about it.We live among a society that openly and actively shuns you if you admit that you're smart in some avenue.Because, apparently, saying "I'm stupid and not smart at all" is the sanest, best thing you can say.Son of a bitch. Is that stupid or what?yeah, but having some self-celebration after accomplishing something isn't the same as going on and on about how apparently intelligent you are when nobody cares.
Are you using smart and intelligent interchangeably? Also I'd like to think a lot of people are ignorant as opposed to generally unintelligent. It's been a long time since I've studied this little subject but from the measurements of human intelligence in the form of IQ tests shows a bell curve where most people fit into the range of 95-105 or something like that. So a lot of us who don't have any neurological problems seem to be on par with each other in terms of intelligence, but regardless you see a lot of examples of people who seem to have low IQs or act "stupid". So then we have the variables of income, access to education, socioeconomic status, country, etc. A classic example is how Asian students destroy American students. Not because they're inherently more intelligent, but because in their culture studying 4-5 hours a day is encouraged. And as we know, Americans students study considerably less than that.Are you picking up what I'm putting down?
Quote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on September 05, 2015, 08:44:54 PMQuote from: on September 05, 2015, 08:16:32 PMQuote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on September 05, 2015, 08:06:14 PMIf you have to tell other people that you're smart, then...yeahDid you ever stop and ever think about that? I certainly question it. Is there really anything inherently wrong with openly admitting that you are smart? Because I'd wager, that sometimes wanting to tell somebody that you are smart can be associated with being pleased with yourself.You do something and it works and you say "damn I'm good." It's a happy feeling and you feel like sharing it, just because of how excited it has you.And then, somebody has the gall to call you insecure or self centered if you so much as do it once.Think about it.We live among a society that openly and actively shuns you if you admit that you're smart in some avenue.Because, apparently, saying "I'm stupid and not smart at all" is the sanest, best thing you can say.Son of a bitch. Is that stupid or what?yeah, but having some self-celebration after accomplishing something isn't the same as going on and on about how apparently intelligent you are when nobody cares.If nobody cares then wouldn't said person just sort of ramble to themselves all alone and not be responded to?
Quote from: on September 05, 2015, 08:46:40 PMQuote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on September 05, 2015, 08:44:54 PMQuote from: on September 05, 2015, 08:16:32 PMQuote from: 🍄Tryptameme🍄 on September 05, 2015, 08:06:14 PMIf you have to tell other people that you're smart, then...yeahDid you ever stop and ever think about that? I certainly question it. Is there really anything inherently wrong with openly admitting that you are smart? Because I'd wager, that sometimes wanting to tell somebody that you are smart can be associated with being pleased with yourself.You do something and it works and you say "damn I'm good." It's a happy feeling and you feel like sharing it, just because of how excited it has you.And then, somebody has the gall to call you insecure or self centered if you so much as do it once.Think about it.We live among a society that openly and actively shuns you if you admit that you're smart in some avenue.Because, apparently, saying "I'm stupid and not smart at all" is the sanest, best thing you can say.Son of a bitch. Is that stupid or what?yeah, but having some self-celebration after accomplishing something isn't the same as going on and on about how apparently intelligent you are when nobody cares.If nobody cares then wouldn't said person just sort of ramble to themselves all alone and not be responded to?and what is that good for? i don't have to be intelligent to ramble on about how intelligent i am.
Street smarts > book smarts
I was just thinking about how it's kind of cool to be smart
