/lit/ - Literature

>>18205656
Someone makes a marble bust of your head

>>18205656
You follow the teachings of based Marx and don't think badthink.

>>18205656
When you have a nuanced and multifacetted understanding of things in such a way you can estimate your relative competency in a meta sense even taking into consideration your current mindset is flawed or partial in some potential way.

>>18205656
The fact that you can read makes you smarter than 90% of burgers

>>18205672
How do you know your understanding doesn't have a massive oversight?

sometimes you get a buzzy feeling in the top right corner of your crown when you're really on one and crushing your work

>>18205669
This but unironically

People just stare at me blankly when I start talking about interesting things

>>18205760

>>18205672
Fairly well said.
Also, you recognize people missing cues that brought to your attention some of your own shortcomings several years earlier.

People don’t like me. Why else would they not like me?

>>18205760
>>18205780
unironically this

>>18206089
because you ask vague open-ended questions like that.

>>18205656
Currently on page 186 (250ish if it's formatted) of my novel. I've only ever finished one manuscript and I gotta say, the ending seems to be the hardest part. I feel like tying up all the loose threads is harder than it looks. However, I feel like if I tie this up I could have a semi-decent book

>>18205656
I don’t know I’m not smart

>>18205656
Several people have let me know my story is uninteresting and nobody will want to read it. I will still finish it but it will probably never be published.
Anything for this feel?

>>18205656
people call you stupid

If more people defer to you than don't.

i'm not smart
what more needs to be said?

>>18205656
I'm not. I am a goddam fool

>>18205760
>>18205780
>>18206096
>Can't convert his ideas into normie friendly bite size ideas mid conversation in seconds

a true high iq understands the visible intellectual barriers and adjusts his forms of expression so that he does not filter others and so that he does not confuse

>>18206640
>>18206670
it's way better to hold pretensions of smartness and only appear arrogant than to hold pretensions of humility and actually be arrogant.

I'm not.

>>18206713
>he thinks i'm being modest
I
am
not
smart

i dont know i genuinely think im an idiot

>>18205656
Ive never read anything that I couldnt wrap my head around and I startle others when I speak

>>18205672
Pseud

>>18206770
i actually can't relate to people who are not smart so i always think they're just pretending to be dumb to appear smart. there's no way they actually believe they're not smart.

>>18205672
That's simply being aware and the exercising of consciousness. Wouldn't call that a telltale song of intellect.

>>18206672
>implying I dont