Re: Why being Real Smart SUCKS

From: PD (pdraper_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: 7 Feb 2005 06:12:17 -0800

DavidBowman wrote:
> > I'm going to assume you're young.
>
> younger than the statistical mean here, yes very probably.
>
> > I pray you get quickly into something worthwhile -
>
> After college, there IS nothing worthwhile.
>
> Example:
> As I type this, my roommates are watching the super bowl. I neither
> know nor care who's playing.
>
> =[ d

Which is a fact and not a value judgement, I hope. I think it's
debatable whether time spent on the Superbowl is inferior to time spent
on s.p.r.

In your case, I further hope that you eventually discover:
- the best possible way to better yourself is to surround yourself with
people who are better than you.
- absolutely everyone has at least one skill or trait that is worthy of
admiration and aspiration, and which you do not have, and that skill or
trait will vary from person to person.
- every task or job or career will involve some skills that you are
good at and some you suck at, meaning that there is always a path for
improvement.
- the accomplishments in a career are not nearly as important as the
way you lose yourself in task at hand.
- if you are good at one thing in particular, and you don't take it as
a personal mission to teach someone else that one thing to the point
where that someone becomes better than you at it, then you have
accomplished nothing.

It is entirely possible to have a career that
- is intellectually stimulating
- demands just a little more than what you're presently capable of
- includes a team of people with complementary gifts
- yields a morally or emotionally satisfying end-product

It is also entirely possible to find all the above completely OUTSIDE a
career.

PD

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