I’ve worked with a guy that you could call a genius. He could recite facts with ease, and any new information he gathered, would just stick in his head.
He also told a bunch of kids Santa isn’t real in front of a guy dressed as Santa, and was constantly miserable.
I think you’re confusing correlation with causation. I highly doubt his intelligence caused his bitterness and misery, it just made him more adept at expressing it (and spreading it around). I know highly intelligent people both miserable and joyful, and dense people the same. Mental acuity does not determine one’s attitude, free will does.
Are you saying that what we choose to think about has more impact on our attitude than our ability to think? We can choose to value the contents of a half-full glass more than the size of the glass itself? We can choose to dwell on happy thoughts as opposed to wallowing in depressing one? Is that what you are saying? Hmmmmm….. it could happen.
He went on (a certain game show) and said he hopes his colleagues (of another game show he is a feature of) die alongside their families in a horrible crash.
I feel kind of like this: I know that I’m smart, and I can understand a lot of things which fly over most people’s heads, but then, when it comes to simple day-to-day life, everything flies over MY head and everybody else understands.
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This reminds me of the time when I graduated high school, and forgot to go to the ceremony, and instead went to math class. I am not a smart man.
At least you went to something school related at all, right?
…well…
I’ve worked with a guy that you could call a genius. He could recite facts with ease, and any new information he gathered, would just stick in his head.
He also told a bunch of kids Santa isn’t real in front of a guy dressed as Santa, and was constantly miserable.
I think the first way around is better.
I think you’re confusing correlation with causation. I highly doubt his intelligence caused his bitterness and misery, it just made him more adept at expressing it (and spreading it around). I know highly intelligent people both miserable and joyful, and dense people the same. Mental acuity does not determine one’s attitude, free will does.
Are you saying that what we choose to think about has more impact on our attitude than our ability to think? We can choose to value the contents of a half-full glass more than the size of the glass itself? We can choose to dwell on happy thoughts as opposed to wallowing in depressing one? Is that what you are saying? Hmmmmm….. it could happen.
I like rainbows.
I like unicorns!
He went on (a certain game show) and said he hopes his colleagues (of another game show he is a feature of) die alongside their families in a horrible crash.
Look, you eat your sandwich YOUR way…
I admire the restraint shown in alternative ways to eat a sandwich.
Sandwiches? Sandwiches??? What are these sandwiches of which you… uh… what was I saying? Oh look, a fly!
Sorry, I got distracted. What were we talking about?
jeez, you gotta get your life together.
Crazy Glue
I’d be happy remembering when I had something on the stove or left the faucet turned on.
oh oh … sandwiches go in the other way !!
E=MC Triangled? Whoa…this changes EVERYthing!
I feel kind of like this: I know that I’m smart, and I can understand a lot of things which fly over most people’s heads, but then, when it comes to simple day-to-day life, everything flies over MY head and everybody else understands.
oops. I didn’t mean to do that as a reply.
sorry!
Well, you just proved you point.
How do you Triangle a number? Is that multiplying it by 3/4s of itself?
See? That why YOU didn’t win that Nobel Prize.
A triangle symbol in math is called a delta, which means change, as in the speed of light is changing.
That third panel is the funniest thing I’ve seen all year.
Thanks!