What if you were kinda slow for a big chunk of your life

@dark548 no...I mean that if you meet ppl who keep telling you they are geniuses, has it ever really seemed that way?

I knew a person in a PhD program (applied natural science) who kept saying he was a genius. This turned out to partly be due to his not understanding that one std deviation on the IQ Gaussian is 20 points, not 10 (if you had an IQ measured at 120 and thought σ = 10, you would think you were a "2 sigma" person, rather than being the "1 sigma" person you would actually be...). And he cheated on homework, made up "facts" in the field, and failed the oral exam to become a PhD candidate...

As a result, I did not consider his self-evaluation to have been either accurate or based upon all available data.

So, no, it was not at all directed against you.

@SomeMichGuy ohh I misunderstood then lol

@dark548 😊 we sorted it out

if someone is a genius, it will be obvious

if not, also obvious

I think the [i]Desiderata[/i] has the best advice: don't compare yourself to others, because you will become both vain and bitter, as there will always be those worse and better than you [my eliding of it]

@pixelmann interesting 🤔

@pixelmann I second your notion of quick wit over more thorough thinking.

Consider how many rhyming phrases are used to dispense with something, as though rhyming were the gold standard of truth?