For years I’ve been wondering how so many intelligent people around me can shoot themselves in the foot all the time. My best guess is, despite their intelligence they never stop to think “What if I’m doing the wrong thing? How would I know?”. At least not consciously.
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this is a bit fortune-cookie but like: intelligence really is not at all the same thing as wisdom
i say this as a person who has always been very intelligent but has rarely been particularly wise 😅
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Yeah I always knew it in theory, but still kinda assumed that intelligent people would have it easier to arrive at wisdom, no? They have such great tools at their disposal?
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it did not help. if anything it made me so successful in the short term (and the short term was like until 3 years into grad school) that i could afford to keep being an idiot wisdom-ly. things didn't change until i hit a wall, stopped "succeeding," became desperate
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" vibes y'know
intelligent people acquiring wisdom is not necessarily in the interests of institutions who would rather just bend intelligent people to their will
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Yeah that’s relatable, although I hit the wall as soon as I entered college and then spent the next few years miserable and self-loathing.
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honestly seems better to hit it sooner than later 😅
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