I don't know. Sometimes I think we're "not all there". That's why we're all here.Frankly, if you're here, both you and all of the people you know are above average.
For all of you who voted "yes"... Do you really know any stupid people?
I don't mean less smart than you, I mean stupid. Like average intelligence or below.
Frankly, if you're here, both you and all of the people you know are above average. Likely 90th percentile.
If you're doubting that fact, go check out some of that TikTwitBook stuff (and I don't mean the popular ones), or talk to someone who's in customer service at any general retail business. I think your expected baseline is skewed.
Realize that all of the warning labels you've ever seen exist because multiple people weren't smart enough to know better.
So I do have a chance with herOr marry them. LOL
Dont underestimate your worth. I know folks that some would consider an idiot, but they get in their element, and dayum. Can they work it!There's a phrase I discovered this year that really hits home... "I am way to dumb to be this smart". Both my wife and I have self-confidence stuff going on but people come to us for advice and instruction regularly and repeatedly at work (full of people as or more educated than us, sometimes working there longer, and often getting paid more)
Then I go in some of the groups on facebook and weep for the human race.
valuing self worth is a corollary but separate. mainly just stuff that we just know... no reason or logic or training just common sense or something we heard in a past conversation and that's the way it is but other folks are astounded that we would know it and be able to explain in. Like, you people have a bachelors degree (or better) in engineering and your job is in electronic hardware, how do you not grasp how a simple circuit works? Or my degree is in automotive tech but I'm explaining to finance people how to operate excel and structure data (because they just use excel like a whiteboard). That doesn't even touch on the middle-management and up that has zero concept of what actually goes on in the world or the company they're tasked with making decisions about.Dont underestimate your worth. I know folks that some would consider an idiot, but they get in their element, and dayum. Can they work it!
Me: Hey Cletus, can you solve PI to the 5th digit?
Cletus: Pie? I like pie. Especially sugar cream. By the way, did I tell you I rebuilt the transmission in my truck last weekend with just a multitool in the pole barn I stick built with no plans? Oh, and my well ran dry so I drilled a new one with a water jet thing I built. I
Me: *mouth hangs open*