I used to wonder that as a kid as well. Was I smart or were others just stupid?
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
Growing up being called “gifted” only to grow up and discover the bar is simply really low.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 days ago
For me it was mostly just that I have really good reading comprehension and read ahead in the textbooks when I was bored in class. Basically I ADDed myself into studying.
Serinus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s also kind of surprising how my education mattered. When you’re going through it a lot of it doesn’t feel useful.
But then you meet people who really can’t read or write effectively or understand simple concepts.
Even people here on Lemmy are more likely to take the feeling of each word than to understand the sentences as a whole.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yeah, I was always shocked by the popsci factoid stats about communication happening primarily via tone and such, it seemed crazy to me that some people use that as primary meaning and not in addition to fully understanding the semantics of being said, or that they could even be influenced by the actual choice of words even if the meaning is unchanged, but I guess I was just lucky.
What’s really shocking above all for me lately is how few people care about intellectual honesty, and will blatantly go for the most self-serving falsehood no matter how blatant.
I wouldn’t claim something I couldn’t back up in some way not because I’m just inherently a saint - on a purely selfish animalistic superego esque way - I wouldn’t do it because it would hurt my self-esteem to blatantly lie in a self-serving manner because it’s just kinda pathetic to have to resort to that.
Serinus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I wrote a paper for English in college, which I wouldn’t write the same way today.
I started with a shocking, racist statement that I held up as an example of things that aren’t acceptable. I spent the rest of the paper both refuting that and drawing parallels to other things that shouldn’t be acceptable.
My shocking statement was effectively taken at face value, and I was originally given a D on the paper. I went back and argued it into a B, because it really wasn’t what it seemed at first, if you just read it.
That attention getter sure got attention though. I don’t remember if that was part of the assignment.
I tend to have this writing style often enough that my super power is convincing people to do the opposite of whatever I’m advocating for. There’s at least one famous Lemmy example from me.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Seems like a nice paper
qualia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Emotional space is easier to navigate than semantic space, and people are lazy. The best LLMs have parameters in the multiple 100s of billions and they’re not able to parse at a human-level. That’s more neurons than’s in the human brain (~86B). I’m not even sure what my point is, too lazy to keep the thread. I’ma take a nap. You take care.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
You too man, night night xx
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah, emotional intelligence is hugely overlooked, when interpreting what others say, and to also not be swept up by every little thing, and that low eq breeds for resentment, which is rife for the brainwashing that propaganda is. We all need to be focusing on teaching the next Gen how to step outside their emotions, as an observer, and reflect on the message they are for oneself, not a cue for how to treat others, and to look inside and heal, or self care, if those emotional messages are extreme. It’s not iq, it’s eq and the world would be a different place. It’s easy not to care, when you feel like you have been thrown out with the trash, and knee jerk to all your emotions, rather than be an entity that observes your emotions.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Emotional intelligence?
I think you mean skepticism and critical thought. You mention both, but emotional intelligence isn’t what you’re after. Emotional intelligence is a skill that could be manipulated to get past someone’s skepticism. Emotion, “feels”, get in the way of critical thought.
bobo1900@startrek.website 4 days ago
Everyone feels emotions. Emotional intelligence means being capable of recognizing your own emotions (or other people’s) and not let them rule you, but to let you rule them, so they can help you when necessary and not damage you.