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Are some people too smart?
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DorkothyParker



Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I pick up new concepts and ideas very quickly and I'm able to apply them to facts and theories I am already aware of.

I just have a really short attention span. I have no idea how intelligent I am. I do know my older sister has consistently bested me grade-wise so no matter how smart I am, I will never be good enough.
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
In evolutionary terms being smart really only means being able to maintain a 'content' fame of mind / equilibrium and to spawn as many offspring as possible whilst having a large social supprt group that will take care of your best interests.

Food for thought.
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Kwangjuchicken



Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote:
In evolutionary terms being smart really only means being able to maintain a 'content' fame of mind / equilibrium and to spawn as many offspring as possible whilst having a large social supprt group that will take care of your best interests.

Food for thought.


I thought fish was food for thought. Question
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kwangjuchicken wrote:
DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote:
In evolutionary terms being smart really only means being able to maintain a 'content' fame of mind / equilibrium and to spawn as many offspring as possible whilst having a large social supprt group that will take care of your best interests.

Food for thought.


I thought fish was food for thought. Question


You've cod to be kidding me!
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
No, he just said that for the halibut.
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I'm no Picasso



Joined: 28 Oct 2008
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Are some people too smart?


I doubt it. Especially 'round these here parts.
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
tomato wrote:
No, he just said that for the halibut.


Eel have to be more careful about what he says in this plaice.
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beercanman



Joined: 16 May 2009
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
oldfatfarang wrote:
I'm not smart, no doubt about it (2 years in every class, ha), but I studied at uni with a very smart guy. There was no mistaking Graham's way above average intelligence - as while I'd be slaving over essays etc - Graham was in the cafe. He could answer/solve any of my mind-tangle uni problems with just a couple of words - everytime.

Graham was the only student I ever heard of who had professors asking him to critique their research (in his 2nd year of undergraduate studies).

It took me 9 months to write my thesis - it took Graham about a month (if I remember well).

Yep, a smart boy, and very intelligent.

It's a crying shame that he was so smart he couldn't interact with normal people ( I'm also sure that's why he was a recovering/lapsed/recovering/lapsed alcoholic).


odd to hear since you sound like one the smartest people on the board...
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Auslegung



Joined: 14 Jan 2009
Location: MB, SC
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Saw a lot of the douchebag comments on here and figured most of them weren't helpful so I'd toss my couple pennies in. I agree with you, to some extent. I assume you're really quick on the uptake (what I call intelligent) and have a good capacity for abstract thinking. I used to be really wrapped up in it in college and wasn't particularly happy, nor particularly sad. Now I'm experimenting with the less-knowledgeable, less-caring (of knowledge) aspect and find it to be about the same with happiness. I've concluded that the intelligence hasn't effected my happiness. I'm going to be heading back towards the "intelligent" life (if I may so poorly call it...sound too much like a douche myself) sometime, as soon as I can get off my lazy arse.
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Xerxes



Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Auslegung wrote:
Saw a lot of the douchebag comments on here and figured most of them weren't helpful so I'd toss my couple pennies in.