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Need a term for “something many much dumber people than me seen to grok but I fail to.” Kinda like the fish sticks joke in the South Park episode about Kanye. Not quite a blindspot. Something like a stupidspot. Even geniuses have them. I’m trying to document my stupidspots.
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One of my stupidspots is plotting in fiction. I feel like I’m missing something far worse storytellers than me get.
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I’m sportslexic. Can’t follow any team sport and tell you who’s doing badly or well, or why the game is going as it is. Can watch a big sportsball match for the atmosphere, but I genuinely have no idea who is doing what.
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Yes, it is a thing deserving a distinct word. Mine's detecting selfish motives I think. I rationalize the inability by convincing myself I don't want to be and am not as suspicious of people in general as most others seem to be.
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Unfortunately (or fortunately) intelligence isn't Russian nesting dolls. Understanding something at the height of complexity doesn't mean you understand everything lower down in the stack, nor more importantly do you understand people who can't go as complex.
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