Comments on: Too Smart http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/ Insights on Philosophy, Psychology, and Technology Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ins http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Ins Sun, 30 May 2010 10:03:05 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-394 I can relate to your friend, as I dropped out myself for these reasons. There's just this feeling inside which eats you up when you go along doing something you really don't want, and I guess once the stress gets too much, you just stop thinking and quit. That's what I did.. Followed by a few years of stress and it's problems. Yet it feels as though my soul has awakened since then, I wouldn't have it any other way. :) I can relate to your friend, as I dropped out myself for these reasons. There’s just this feeling inside which eats you up when you go along doing something you really don’t want, and I guess once the stress gets too much, you just stop thinking and quit. That’s what I did.. Followed by a few years of stress and it’s problems.
Yet it feels as though my soul has awakened since then, I wouldn’t have it any other way. :)

]]> By: kid http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-380 kid Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:31:20 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-380 wow im the exact way i am smart but i only use it to be lazy. I am in high school and i feel that im gonna end up the exact way you ended up. I get A's and i don't even try. I put all my effort into putting in less effort. High school is a huge waste of time but i guess its necessary. Although its a waste its not so bad because im popular but i still rather not go. i sleep a lot of my afternoon away and stay up at night and play video games all the time. i could get a job where i would be helping the world advanced but i would not get paid enough so why bother. I am probably just gonna end up getting a high paying job i hate just like you. You are me 10 years ago and i just saw my future. wow im the exact way i am smart but i only use it to be lazy. I am in high school and i feel that im gonna end up the exact way you ended up. I get A’s and i don’t even try. I put all my effort into putting in less effort. High school is a huge waste of time but i guess its necessary. Although its a waste its not so bad because im popular but i still rather not go. i sleep a lot of my afternoon away and stay up at night and play video games all the time. i could get a job where i would be helping the world advanced but i would not get paid enough so why bother. I am probably just gonna end up getting a high paying job i hate just like you. You are me 10 years ago and i just saw my future.

]]> By: garland http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-375 garland Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:28:01 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-375 i must say that a few of these posts sound like they might have come out of my own head. i was the kid who aced the iowa test of basic skills. the child who had a 160 iq. the 7th grader who got a 1460 on the sats. i read a wrinkle in time in third grade and anna kaerinina in fifth. but it was all a joke to me. i opted out of johns hopkins to " be a normal kid" and found pot and alcohol and girls and after a six year steady drunk i am mostly sober. it took me six years to party away all that intelligence and i dont regret that i did it. i knew way to early that adults were fallible and resented them for it as i resented also the assumption that everyone had that i owed the world something great just because of an accident of birth that gave me abnormal intelligence. i fought the whole world and the demons inside for so long that i had to bow out and i am scared that my sobriety will lead to my brain again functioning on that higher level. i dont want it. i hate that black hole or pressure in my brain from all the thoughts rushing around. i cant even act like i understand normal people anymore convincingly. i know all the angles of their arguements before they do and i see where they are coming from but i cant react to what they say like a normal human would. does anyone understand what i am saying at all? i dont think i explained it very well nor do i think that i had much of a point i just had to get some of that out i must say that a few of these posts sound like they might have come out of my own head. i was the kid who aced the iowa test of basic skills. the child who had a 160 iq. the 7th grader who got a 1460 on the sats. i read a wrinkle in time in third grade and anna kaerinina in fifth. but it was all a joke to me. i opted out of johns hopkins to ” be a normal kid” and found pot and alcohol and girls and after a six year steady drunk i am mostly sober. it took me six years to party away all that intelligence and i dont regret that i did it. i knew way to early that adults were fallible and resented them for it as i resented also the assumption that everyone had that i owed the world something great just because of an accident of birth that gave me abnormal intelligence. i fought the whole world and the demons inside for so long that i had to bow out and i am scared that my sobriety will lead to my brain again functioning on that higher level. i dont want it. i hate that black hole or pressure in my brain from all the thoughts rushing around. i cant even act like i understand normal people anymore convincingly. i know all the angles of their arguements before they do and i see where they are coming from but i cant react to what they say like a normal human would. does anyone understand what i am saying at all? i dont think i explained it very well nor do i think that i had much of a point i just had to get some of that out

]]> By: Douglas Stebbins http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Douglas Stebbins Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:42:16 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-370 HOnestly... I feel... exactly like this... i mean... i've never taken an IQ test... but i feel i am beyond too smart... but its common sense smart... not book smart... i know hoe to cheat... i know hoe to get away with ... and how to do everything i want without even trying... and people call me the golden boy... just because i get what i want... I KNOW HOW... i work smarter... not harder... HOnestly… I feel… exactly like this… i mean… i’ve never taken an IQ test… but i feel i am beyond too smart… but its common sense smart… not book smart… i know hoe to cheat… i know hoe to get away with … and how to do everything i want without even trying… and people call me the golden boy… just because i get what i want… I KNOW HOW… i work smarter… not harder…

]]> By: Trump Network http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Trump Network Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:27:53 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-368 Wow, what a compelling story. This by no means has to define you. See it as the story that propels you to greatness... Similar to an addict that finally has had enough of being less than mediocre. Tony Robbins says to get uncomfortable. It sounds like you're too comfortable with this story.. But fortunately for you, you have the power to change everything! You're like that picture that you picked for this post. So fitting.. You have the potential to come out of that water drenched tunnel and come out on the other side. It's sunny there. Good luck! Wow, what a compelling story. This by no means has to define you. See it as the story that propels you to greatness… Similar to an addict that finally has had enough of being less than mediocre. Tony Robbins says to get uncomfortable. It sounds like you’re too comfortable with this story.. But fortunately for you, you have the power to change everything! You’re like that picture that you picked for this post. So fitting.. You have the potential to come out of that water drenched tunnel and come out on the other side. It’s sunny there. Good luck!

]]> By: Jonathan Hollin http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Jonathan Hollin Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:33:46 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-361 I can relate. Your post really resonated with me. I too have cruised along, just doing the bare minimum. Rarely truly motivated, and not really caring about anything. Like your friend, I identify the flaws in "the system" and hate the world because of it. But really it's not the world that I hate, it's myself. I hate myself for being so damn lazy, I hate that I haven't done more with my life and I really hate that I didn't try harder to be all that I could have been. But Bobby's right, it's never too late to change. Never. I can relate. Your post really resonated with me. I too have cruised along, just doing the bare minimum. Rarely truly motivated, and not really caring about anything.

Like your friend, I identify the flaws in “the system” and hate the world because of it. But really it’s not the world that I hate, it’s myself. I hate myself for being so damn lazy, I hate that I haven’t done more with my life and I really hate that I didn’t try harder to be all that I could have been.

But Bobby’s right, it’s never too late to change. Never.

]]> By: Belalrone http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-356 Belalrone Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:51:56 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-356 I too was in the "gifted and talented" in my school. My school was small and all the advance classes had to be taken via satellite. When in highschool I did not have much competition for head of the class so I did just enough to get by. As far as how that translates into happyness... I dunno. I feel its a problem of perception. Regrets should only be there to push ourselves in the present or down the road. Not to be used to pile up on ourselves. I read http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/0671019112# years ago and while nothing is a flip switch on depression... it did help me understand somewhat of what goes on or perpetuates depression. For me I am a proud loner and that doesnt help much. When I am social I am much better off. I too was in the “gifted and talented” in my school. My school was small and all the advance classes had to be taken via satellite. When in highschool I did not have much competition for head of the class so I did just enough to get by. As far as how that translates into happyness… I dunno. I feel its a problem of perception. Regrets should only be there to push ourselves in the present or down the road. Not to be used to pile up on ourselves. I read http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/0671019112# years ago and while nothing is a flip switch on depression… it did help me understand somewhat of what goes on or perpetuates depression. For me I am a proud loner and that doesnt help much. When I am social I am much better off.

]]> By: Bobby Borszich http://www.werkkrew.com/2009/07/23/too-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Bobby Borszich Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:40:30 +0000 http://www.werkkrew.com/?p=424#comment-340 Wow, very raw an honest for a blog post. Just remember it is never too late to change things. Complacency is state of being and not a physical feature...do something :) Wow, very raw an honest for a blog post. Just remember it is never too late to change things. Complacency is state of being and not a physical feature…do something :)

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