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If you have something heavy to lift, you get the strong person to lift it. If you have something that is high up on a shelf, you get the tall person to reach for it. So therefore, if you need to make complex decisions, then why not let the smart person do it? Talking about being smart is not bragging about being smart. Years ago, geniuses were burned at the stake for saying the world wasn't flat. A tall person doesn't look at himself as tall, he looks at everyone else as short. And he has to duck through doorways so as to not knock his head on things. These people drive smart people nuts because there are storieshat are beyond the mental bandwidth of the news media to report. For example, the major news centers are talking about air bags in cars. So we turn off the air bags to save 30 kids and let 2000 die instead? Not I'm not against improving air bags to try to save the remaining 30 kids, but turning off the air bags is stupid beyond belief! It's bad enough that you see stories reported this way, but then comes the shocker. When you try to explain it to people, you realize that more than 50% of the population doesn't have the mental capacity to understand the argument. For as long as I can remember I have been hearing the average person uses only 10% of their brain. Total Neuron Count: 498,056,365,012,992 Total Neurons Used: 50,429,655,502,023 Total Neurons Free: 447,626,709,510,969 Is this what we are talking about? Or are we saying that we could be ten times as smart as we are and that for some reason we are ten times as dumb as we could be? What is it that these people really mean and it there any basis for this in fact? Another popular myth is that I've always heard that your IQ stops changing when you are five years old. For anyone who has two brain cells to rub together, this is rediculus! Society creates myths about the mind because they are afraid of smart people. They are afraid to admit that some people are a hell of a lot smarter than other people. Some times people are born that way, but more often than not smart people are smart because they work at it. They keep their mind sharp because they use their brain rather than just let it rot in their head. I think that the average person is capable of much more smarts that the are willing to put out.
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