I'm thinking: "People are fundamentally stupid. Take advantage of them."
05-03-2016 07:34 PM
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Help me construct a new worldviewI'm thinking: "People are fundamentally stupid. Take advantage of them." |
05-03-2016 07:40 PM
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Why do you need the stupid bit and why would you automatically want to exploit them? |
05-03-2016 07:47 PM
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How about, "The world will always have things in it that fascinate and excite you. Find those things." | |
05-03-2016 07:50 PM
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05-03-2016 07:56 PM
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05-03-2016 08:01 PM
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Focus on yourself. | |
05-03-2016 08:42 PM
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This is 100% true, and is key to persuassion. Idk if it's a world view, but it's certainly key to influencing people | |
05-03-2016 08:42 PM
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Youth is fading; graduate to reality, abandon idealistic goals. | |
05-03-2016 08:52 PM
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You would probably be better served by getting more specific with how you're describing people in general instead of going with something as non-specific as stupid. In particular, you might want to look into which particular ways they tend to be stupid, of which acting based on emotion instead of rational thought is likely to be your next thought. | |
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05-03-2016 10:07 PM
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Does anyone disagree that most people are stupid? | |
05-03-2016 10:10 PM
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05-04-2016 02:22 AM
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05-04-2016 08:26 AM
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05-04-2016 09:59 AM
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05-04-2016 03:34 PM
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Know thyself. | |
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05-04-2016 06:40 PM
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05-04-2016 09:07 PM
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Reading this thread affirms that people are indeed stupid. |
05-06-2016 04:57 AM
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Picture a person with an IQ of 100. What's your mental image of the person, bright or not? Now realize 50% of the people are dumber than that person. | |
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05-06-2016 05:58 AM
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When I gauge other people's intelligence I'm only ever comparing it to my own. How easily I learn new things, how open I am to new ideas and how able I am to grasp complicated concepts. To me, my ability is the norm. Fortunately it's considerably above the actual average, but I imagine everyone does this. | |
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05-06-2016 06:01 AM
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So my point, I get easily distracted, procrastinate horrifically, sometimes lack drive and motivation, and get by on my ability to be able to make up for those things with, for want of a better expression, my iq. So for people with a lower iq, but not completely thick, if they lack those issues I suffer with that would probably counter the lower iq. But again, life is just much harder for those people, they need to try harder, work more, spend more time on things. They must sacrifice so much more. | |
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05-06-2016 08:20 AM
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I'll be 100% serious. | |
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05-06-2016 08:45 AM
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05-06-2016 09:08 AM
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I agree, and think it all comes down to willpower. I think willpower is something that can be learned, too. | |
05-06-2016 01:26 PM
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Willpower isn't so much learned as earned. You can increase your willpower by exercising your willpower. Conceptually, it's like a muscle: if you want to be stronger, than deliberately train to improve yourself. | |
05-06-2016 01:31 PM
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One other point about mindsets -- the self-esteem movement has been shown to push kids into a fixed mindset, ultimately hurting them in the long run. If a kid does well on a test, it's much better to tell them, "Wow, good job, you studied really hard for that!" instead of "Wow, you're so smart!" In the former, it reinforces the concept that hard work is rewarding irrespective of the outcome. In the latter, it makes the kid afraid to challenge himself in the future, because if he doesn't do well on a future test then he will no longer be "smart". | |
05-06-2016 03:50 PM
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I just want to comment on Dweck and how I've been pushing her work here on FTR for more than half of the past decade. Her experiments on children are ridiculously interesting. | |
05-06-2016 04:07 PM
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