• redballooon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I got very good grades at a top university in a stem subject. Most people regard me as smart. My professor who supervised my masters thesis regarded me as smart. I guess I can consider myself smart.

    My brain power helps me with my job, otherwise I do the same things as everybody else.

    My best life decisions came from equanimity, introspection and honesty with myself, not from being smart.

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      1 year ago

      me too, AND I went to med school. I consider myself to be very slightly above average, and still hugely capable of being an utter moron in many instances.

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        1 year ago

        My doctor friend almost lit our shared apartment on fire after lighting a candle near the curtains. The smartest people can do the dumbest shit.

        If he hadn’t seen the curtains light up that would for sure have been a house fire.