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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
She said "The problem is, we're smart, and we surround ourselves with other people who are smart, so we're insulated. We don't realize that an awful lot of people out there aren't smart until we have to deal with them."
She's spot on. I've lost track of the number of things that are glaringly obvious to me that elude some folks I deal with. In some cases, it's a matter of not wanting to get it, because the concept is one that flies against their preconceptions and they don't want to believe it. In others, they simply can't get it. They just aren't bright enough to grasp the notion.
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Do you know this quote?
Have you ever noticed how stupid the average person is?
Now imagine... half of them are stupider.
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In my own case, I've noticed two opposing trends.
1. If someone tells me he's going to do X, I sometimes respond with: "It doesn't work." Then, when asked WHY it doesn't work, I can't fully explain it because I've raced through most, if not all possibilities in a fraction of a second and came to the conclusion that X doesn't work, but without many of the intermediate steps. Then it takes me quite some time to explain my entire TGV of thought, and people lose me somewhere down the road.
Their conclusion: I'm a party pooper who always sees only the problems.
End of story most of the time: X doesn't work, exactly because of the reason I was unable to explain quickly.
2. Something is so extremely glaringly obvious and easy to understand that even my six year old niece gets it, and I go "Oh... right" 3 minutes later. Sometimes, I feel like Data, who gets a joke like 6 years after it's made (when he got his emotion chip), or makes a joke and doesn't understand why it's funny (Guinan: "The joke didn't work because your timing was wrong." Data: "My timing is digital.")