The Idiot Syndrome

Guybrush · 12-13-2010, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships

What shall I do? I don't want to be an idiot but, I am forever doomed to be one. Not being able to hold a candle to bright minds of the past and present it scares me, it truly frightens me. What am I to do? Should I just accept my fate and fall back into the rows of other fools and continue a life of menial labor? I have no choice, I talk without thinking, I can't pick up a book without become bored. Knowledge escapes through my ears and it runs about and away from my eyes only to find shelter in the minds of others. I ask of you, what should I do?

From a social point of view, what's so important about being smart anyways? When I meet someone, I value qualities like kindness much higher.

.. But although I get the feeling it may bother you more than it bothers me, I am in a similar situation. One thing that bothers me about science is the pressure to be brilliant. I'm in a field where some people are super enthusiastic and really live and breathe biology, people who are really brilliant. Then there are people like me who have a life with interests beside biology. I don't live for my studies and my ultimate goal in life is not being the world's most brilliant researcher .. And if I wanna continue in science, it feels like I'd have to compete with brilliant people of that other sort.

It's not a major problem, but it's a little disheartening perhaps. I probably have a higher overall life quality, though.