Hard to find other people who think and/or feel as deeply as you do.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
Ask Reddittalks about the hardest parts about being intelligent.
2.The ability to understand most possible outcomes and their consequences often leads to hesitation or inaction.
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As opposed to some who damn the consequences and just go for it.
3.It easily turns into how you identify yourself and can wreck your mental health.
(If Im not smart, what good am I??)
4.Smart people are good at identifying problems.
Normally they are not able to solve them because of outside factors.
Smart people live in a world where everything is broken and no one will allow them to fix it.
5.Being smart is a practice.
you’ve got the option to have potential for intellectual aptitude but your mind must be exercised.
8.Most smart people never find meaningful system for their intelligence.
Its depressing watching negative events unfold that you predicted.
More often than not, being proved right is really depressing.
10.Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
12.Having high intelligence make you think a lot and very fast.
Which is often good but if you get anxiety, now you have turbo-anxiety.
14.If they ever admit that they are intelligent, they are automatically viewed as an arrogant asshole.
15.Smart people usually overthink stuff more than rather just do it.
16.That the truly smartest people probably (not always) wont be recognised.
Hard to find other people who think and/or feel as deeply as you do.
18.Being smart doesnt make you immune to bad ideas, just better at defending them should you buy them.
21.you’re free to be smart and stupid at the same time.
22.The more intelligent you are, the less satisfying and more frustrating it is to interact with others.
24.It doesnt matter how smart you are if youre lazy as fuck.
25.A stupider person with a louder voice will get more attention.
26.Hard realization for me was that bring smart isnt a virtue, its just luck.
If you want to feel good about yourself, youve got to use that intelligence to performactualvirtues.
You just blew the curve for the test.
Some take it out physically.
28.They know too much about how the world works and how terrible everything really is.
No ignorance is bliss for them.
29.One thing I see pretty often is that dumb people tend to think theyre smarter than they are.
Smart people dont seem to realize how smart they are.
