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Graham
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Say you are the smartest person ever. You know of how tiny possibility of finding life in space; nature would eventually win or die vs human input (tampering with natural selection); how many in the world are starving; how little we still actually know about everything. Would the value of bettering your species be worth the stress of knowledge?

you can be dumb and happy, but can you be smart and really happy?

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donpiet
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why is sympathy prejudical?

because in order for you to like someone must approve or agree with their actions. to extremely analyse their actions would be good prejudicial skills


whether or not you like someone happens on a first reaction basis.
after that it is difficult to change that. thats just how the mind works.

i implied what you said as "if you are around smart people you will agree and become friends"


i never said, that as soon as you have smart people around you, than you will be friends with them.
but as you said yourself dumb people often have simplistic views of the world and do not like people they dont understand or that have other opinions.

when being smart it is easier to bond with other people on a level that is close to yours because
1. you are more likely to share interests and be able to have good conversation
2. the chance of finding people who do not judge you by your political or religous views increases.

that does not mean, that smart people can only be friends with other smart people.
Graham
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never said,

that's why i started off
implied what you said as


it is easier to bond with other people on a level that is close to yours because

2. the chance of finding people who do not judge you by your political or religous views increases.

still it is merely a chance

still the problem would be finding these other smart people
xeden
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Ahhh, philosiphy. I think knowledge has neutral effects on a phsycology until its pondered over and over again. as far as knowing everything.... know one would enjoy that....

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Knowledge result in sadness?


Ahhh, philosiphy. I think knowledge has neutral effects on a phsycology until its pondered over and over again. as far as knowing everything.... know one would enjoy that....


Agreed, it's neutral, depends on what you know recently and what you want to know next.

Psychologically, our mind 'study' differently, we can't say a person with IQ 150 is always smarter and better than a person with normal IQ.

Tony Buzan's books, it's about brain.

I don't really remember, but like this.

When we sleep, it's an alpha wave.
When we do daily or 'automatic' activity, it's a beta wave.
When we concentrate like playing chess or study, it's a gamma wave.
When we 'encounter' something new that make us shock, it's an omega wave.

These waves, we can train it, so we can have better sleeping result, 'hyper-memory' when we study, high-concentration and readiness when we encounter something new.

When we study, the book said, our brain wave will rise until 30 minutes and then decrease slowly, that's mean, when we study, it would be better if we take a break every 25-35 minutes, relax your body and mind a little or drink water.

There are many books about human brain, in omega wave, actually human can learn everything they want, music, art, computer coding, cooking, etc.

Motoric - related to your body muscles, reflexes and balance.

Interpersonal - related to 'easy to make friend, one-on-one relationship'

Intrapersonal - related to 'charm and talk in front of many people, one-to-many relationship'

There are 5 more, if I'm not mistaken (the ~ sign is not the original name, I forget the name):

audio~ - related to music, DJ, managing sounds, creating sounds.
Math~ - related to math, physics, logical thinking.
Lingua~ related to learning languages, cultures, how to read old text.

Darn, I forget the other 2.

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All these brain capability is all around us, we are unique, even the twins have many differences. We don't want all persons have the same capability, we need musicians, artist, Flash game maker, entrepreneur, teachers, engineers, etc.

We can't say this person stupid, it just not their 'brain capacity' or their hobby, you can say I'm stupid in math, but can you play guitar and make a lot of friend easily? Most people who I know 'smarter' in math than me don't have these 'capabilities', but if they want to and give it a try, anybody will succeed.

Actually there was a time when my teacher ask me 5849 X 3764 = ? then in less then 3 seconds, i 'just' know the answer (all my friends in my class stare at me, they even haven't press the calculator), but I don't 'develop' this brain capacity, why? I don't really a Math guy, I really like to travel, make friend, play games, and what I like the most is studying languages, so I will become a linguist or archeologist someday, I'm also writing a book right now, but it still 100 pages, my target is around 2000 pages.
17dman
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It depends see like the crazy smart people I mean the crazy crazy smart ones usally are socially outcasts because thats all they know is science but I am very smart but I am good at sports and have alot of friends at school and get invited to parties and stuff so I would say no unless your really weird

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I'm incredibly smart according to my parents, my sister, the teachers at my school and the fancy awards I get at the end of the year.
I'm currently in a large state of depression with no friends and me being on the computer 24/7 cutting all ties to the outside world.
So I would agree with the overall arguement, Being smart means being depressed.

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Ok but theres a difference between knowing and caring...you could know about everyones problem but if you dont care that doesnt affect you...so i guess if you know everything and dont care then yes you could be really happy....

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I'm incredibly smart according to my parents, my sister, the teachers at my school and the fancy awards I get at the end of the year.
I'm currently in a large state of depression with no friends and me being on the computer 24/7 cutting all ties to the outside world.
So I would agree with the overall arguement, Being smart means being depressed.


Wow. Thanks for describing me so I don't have to type anything. Lol
surfthenet
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So I would agree with the overall arguement, Being smart means being depressed.


not overall, you can be super smart and have friend, I mean true friend, not the one who like to 'take your money, but never gave back'.

Thomas Alfa Edison is a genius, school for a day, get kick from school, study by himself and find more than 1000 invention. When he was old, he made a speech in front of US president, Ford, famous scientists and many more from aboard.

When he was at school his teacher said "you are so stupid, you don't even know why 1+1=2, you have no future". Recently, I ask my friend who has Master degree, he said 1+1 could be 2 or not, he prove it to me.

I just want to see that teacher face when he come to Edison's speech and throw a pancake to his face and say "That what you get by saying other people STUPID! Shame on you, bakades!".

I'm incredibly smart according to my parents, my sister, the teachers at my school and the fancy awards I get at the end of the year.
I'm currently in a large state of depression with no friends and me being on the computer 24/7 cutting all ties to the outside world.


Being smart is not the same with on computer 24/7, and cutting all ties to the outside world is not a 'smart choice', you can have better life, smart and do a lot of other things, it's so fun, try it. I usually don't sleep for 2-3 days in front of computer, but I'm 25 now, I can't keeping my life like this, I have to change somehow. You don't born to be in front of your computer all the times.
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If you think you have no life and have no friends then you will continue like that you have to actually try

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Im top in my class and everyone thinks Im a nerd, which doesnt make me happy, so, as far as in school, knowledge doesnt equal happiness.

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Im top in my class and everyone thinks Im a nerd, which doesnt make me happy, so, as far as in school, knowledge doesnt equal happiness.

Same here (expect I'm not TOP of the class, I am genius in my class's standards :-P) It was awesome on earlier years though.
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Being smart sometimes causes one to become arrogant and snobby.

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Being smart sometimes causes one to become arrogant and snobby.


I've always noticed that the smarter people have more tolerance, while the less intelligent people snap easily.

Most the time it's the people who get average grades but think they're really smart who are the snobby ones.
Snakebite
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I've been using distance learning, basically private school, but at home. I do the work and tests and send them into my teacher to be graded. And now, all my friends say I'm too smart for public school... It's probably true, but I hate being put above people.

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