/lit/ - Literature

Many people on this board think they're much smarter than the general population. If I was as smart as those people claim to be, I wouldn't be on this board, I would be teaching myself to code in all the new languages that businesses are looking for people to code in. If not that, I would be using my smarts to make money in some other way, or devote myself to pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. I really like music, maybe I could learn to make good music if I had high IQ. Why would I waste my time on this website if I was that smart? No one here is as smart as that. They just tell themselves that, or maybe they were told that. People fall for the "lazy genius" meme all the time. If you were actually that smart you would know how to stop being a lazy, useless piece of shit. You would never seriously think about that though, not because you're actually retarded, but because you have a massive fragile ego and honest introspection about your faults will destroy this pitiful world you have built for yourself. I know I'll never write anything as good as the classics. I'll never master Rust and Kotlin, I'll never compose anything that isn't just some simple melodies on basic chords. Yet, I'll still do more than you ever will. I'll get some decent-paying programming job, even if it's not the best. My work will get published someday. I have enough musical skill to impress your crush. I can do all this because I'm a based retard. I don't tell myself "oh I have talent I just don't have the direction to do anything with it". I have no talent. I just accept that everything is beyond my understanding, out of my control, and I just have to make do with what I have. It's not all in my head, nothing is. My head is in it all. I'll do it.