What's Painful

[SteveDallas]

In my experience, being brilliant, along with $1.50, will get you a large coffee at Wawa.

Just call me Salieri.

[Undertoad]

Nobody cares how smart you are, they care what you can do for them.

People don't like smart people. They are intimidated by them and ignore them, even when making important decisions.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Nobody cares how smart you are, they care what you can do for them.

People don't like smart people. They are intimidated by them and ignore them, even when making important decisions.

The whole crux of the thing. Determines Who's going to die alone and who is not. Or at least have enough fricken money to buy cake at your funeral so alot of people show up and pretend to have cared.



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[ I really only wanted to respond with a simple 'BINGO' but who says that anymore?]

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Nobody cares how smart you are, they care what you can do for them. People don't like smart people. They are intimidated by them and ignore them, even when making important decisions.

I think that's too often true in business.

In relationships smart people seek out other smart people, because they find stupid people dreary to be around.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

I think that's too often true in business.

In relationships smart people seek out other smart people, because they find stupid people dreary to be around.

I just find deary people stupid to be around.


People just seek out like minds to be around. I mean dumb people seek out dumb people too ya know

There is intellect and then there is common sense, common sense being the ability to apply one's intellect to resolve a practical situation. Some people have both, some have more of one than the other, and some people have neither. Even those with neither may have family and friends who can largely make up the difference and assure them a meaningful quality of life. Count your blessings.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Brianna

I have been reading and reading and writing and writing and Baked Alaska'd in other people's essence of brilliance-ness...

Sorry, nobody who pops up with a metaphor that vivid is going to convince me she's a dummy. :-)

[Beestie]

What's painful to me is when folks consistently underrate themselves.

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Ya know what's painful, I mean REALLY painful? Knowing that you are not a brilliant person ..... I am in awe of them and I wish I was like them, but I'm not and I never, ever will be and laydees and gentlemen--THAT is painful..... i never thought I was brilliant, but, i thought I was middling good. And, I'm not.

Brianna, will you please get over it, once and for all? You always manage to feel sorry for yourself, no matter what the subject, you are forever looking for a way to UNFAVORABLY compare yourself and so you can say you never "measure up". Stop it, would you? We all have to play with what we are dealt. The truth is in the details. It's what we do with what we have that makes or breaks us, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with a competition between you and everybody else. If you are never confronted with somebody so much more intelligent and accomplished than you are, or with a situation beyond your abilities, how do you expect to LEARN anything? Humility is one thing, being determined to feel inferior is something else. You were on the way to somewhere better, weren't you? Then get on with it!

[Trilby]

I didn't mean to come across as feeling sorry for myself, but in retrospect I guess I did sound whiney. Gads, that IS annoying. I guess I was pondering why some people are so freaking smart and others-the majority?-are not and why is that? Why are some people so blazingly brilliant? Genetics? That can't be it because a lot of these smarties come from very humble stock. Education? No, that's not it either. Have they been 'touched by an angel'? (and don't say 'well, if they HAVE been touched by an angel they need to lawyer up') That's what I'm wondering. Sorry for the pity-party mentality. I really don't come across that way IRL.

[Spexxvet]

My observation is that it is the parents who are mostly responsible. I guess there's a certain minimum level of genetic or biological "equipment" necessary, but it's Mom and Dad who instill the value of "thinking" into their children, who, by example, show that "thinking" can be fun and interesting, who cultivate curiosity and creativity in their children, reward excellent behavior and results, provide the tools necessary to learn, and create an environment favorable to "thinking".

[Flint]

...you know what Doctor Phil would say: when you got a racoon at the front door and a possum at the back . . . no, wait, that's not it . . . ummm . . . okay: if you take a rattle snake on a roller coaster . . . you . . . ummm . . . okay, I got nothin'

[Trilby]

wolf, once again you have managed to say just what I needed to hear. The Angst should quiet down now--I've got the summer off and won't feel like a Retard Dinosaur again till Sept.

[wolf]

The retarded dinosaurs survived along with the small, clever mammals when the comet crashed into the earth. All the smart dinosaurs had gotten too big for their own good and died.

[wolf]

I've been alternative between Bag Balm and Aveeno contact anesthetic, both of which are already in the house. Getting this Ocean Lotion stuff, which sounds very, very nice, would require the ability to put on shoes and go to the Walgreens.