12723563, you can change anti-social BEHAVIOR. Posted by Joe Corn Mo, Tue Feb-10-15 01:38 PM
you can also reframe the way you look at social interaction. what cannot be changed, though... is the baseline level of irritation from stimulus, or the connections you tend to draw that other ppl miss.
When ppl say smart, what they usually mean is "accomplished."
making the transition of merely being smart to actually being accomplished requires you to process the fact that you see the world different and have to turn that into an actual competitive advantage.
if you can't figure out how to do that... well, you are pretty much fucked.
If a pretty smart 13 yr old is bored in class and becomes a class clown... and then is routed to those dumb classes they send obnoxious ppl to,
the odds of that kid becoming accomplished drop drastically. especially if he gets suspended or even arrested for kid shit.
you can say that kid is "making excuses" all you want, but his internal experience is always gonna be fundamentally different than the kid that was in remdial classes because they did not grasp the material.
being highly sensitive is an so interconnected to being smart that they might as well be the same thing. and our society's tendancy to throw away ppl that are hard to deal with results in ppl that are really really smart that end up looking really really stupid, which leads to them never becoming accomplished, which makes ppl say they are full of shit if they try to explain their experience of being slightly smarter than average person.
so while I don't think kanye is the genius he thinks he is, I don't doubt that his internal world is vastly different from most ppl's.
if he had better guidance, the world would have one less jerk.
highly sensative/ highly intelligent ppl need special shit as kids just as much as the profoundly disabled.
and if they don't get it, their brain can turn against them to the point where they are for all intents and purposes, stupid.
>to make us feel better about our anti-social behavior. > >I do agree that artist are hypersensitive. Kanye is an >artist. > >I think the notion of smartness is overrated. Their are alot >of smart people not doing ish but comfort themselves with >being just being smart. > >Kanye is quite accomplished though. > >I guess I am saying this all has nothing to do with him being >smart or not smart. > > > >********** >"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then >they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson > >"One of the most important things in life is what Judge >Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to >whether you're r
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