/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1267018]

Hey /lit/

I'm exactly the opposite of an intellectual and educated person, but I am highly intelligent and very smart person nevertheless.
To be honest, I never read a book in my entire life, still my success in life is very far above average (financially, socially, etc).

My question is, why do people like you think that I am so dumb and you are so smart?
In my opinion the process of writing and especially reading is not a very efficient way at all to share ideas, thoughts, and information.
Stupid example: I can read a 500 pages book about some fitness program (takes several hours/days) or just watch a 1-2 hour long DVD that explains it all.
The human brain has a way higher input capacity than it's given by the inefficient procedure called reading.

Sorry if I come across as a bit mad, but it's people like you that sometimes made my life a lot harder just because of judging me for my lack of intellect.

The only disadvantage that I have to commit is my lack of eloquence, but I can live with that, seriously.

[Project !dashI8UpO. No.1267023]

>I'm exactly the opposite of an intellectual and educated person, but I am highly intelligent and very smart person nevertheless.

[Anonymous No.1267025]

>>1267023
explain what's wrong about that statement.
I assume you are either born with a good/intelligent brain or you find a way to train it during life, and as I said I find there are more efficient ways to do that besides reading

[Anonymous No.1267029]

3/10

[Anonymous No.1267030]

My hypothesis: writing is optimal at some things, video is at others. Inception would be incredibly shallow if committed to written text as-is (a character's thoughts would follow his actions bit-for-bit, while the large amount of context switching would be unwieldy in text), Dune, heavily reliant on stream-of-consciousness passages describing thought processes, is shallow as a movie or mini-series.

[Anonymous No.1267031]

You write like someone who is trying to appear smarter than they really are.

[Anonymous No.1267033]

>>1267025
missing an article

[Anonymous No.1267034]

>>1267029
right, the only solution now is that i'm a troll.

[Anonymous No.1267035]

>My question is, why do people like you think that I am so dumb

>I'm exactly the opposite of an intellectual and educated person, but I am highly intelligent and very smart person nevertheless.

>I am not intellectual
>but I am highly intelligent
(contradiction)
>I am intelligent and smart
(redundancy)

[Anonymous No.1267043]

>>1267031
yes, as I admitted my eloquence is pretty bad so I always try hard. I don't care.

>>1267030
Novels VS movie is a good example, but I didn't mention it because in my opinion fictional stories won't increase your horizon anyhow (I don't consider reading novels intelligent)

[Anonymous No.1267047]

Written communication is the most efficient way to share abstract. Your example of a fitness program is one where video is better, because it's easier to demonstrate a technique than to explain it in words. However, when you're trying to convey something that can't be put into a simple demonstration, writing is the best way to do it. Even a fairly slow reader can read at a faster rate than most people speak, so if the idea is abstract enough that it would be difficult or impossible to visually portray it in a video nothing is gained by using that medium and the rate of information transfer will be lower.

[Anonymous No.1267048]

>>1267035
look, where is the contradiction?
intelligence has nothing to do with the amount of novels and books you read. see this >>1267025

[Anonymous No.1267051]

>>1267047
first good answer, thank you.
but still, don't you think language and reading is still pretty primitive? I don't know how, but as I said I believe the brain could understand things much quicker than reading.

[Anonymous No.1267053]

>>1267048
you say you're not intelligent, then you say you're intelligent.

There's the contradiction, you mouth breathing retard.

[Anonymous No.1267054]

>>1267053
where did I say that i'm not intelligent?

I just said i'm not educated and intellectual, learn the difference you idiot

[Anonymous No.1267059]

>>1267053
owned by >>1267054

[Anonymous No.1267060]

>>1267054
>I'm exactly the opposite of an intellectual

[Anonymous No.1267061]

>>1267051
>don't you think language and reading is still pretty primitive?
And what, in the end, isn't primitive?

>the brain could understand things much quicker than reading.
That depends on how quick you can read.

Also, I don't judge people by the books they read or don't read.
Feel free to live as you wish, as long as you're happy.

[Anonymous No.1267062]

>>1267060
INTELLIGENCE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN INTELLECT YOU STUPID RETARDED WANNABE SMART FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.1267065]

>>1267062
no its not, its really not.

[Anonymous No.1267067]

>I can read a 500 pages book about some fitness program (takes several hours/days) or just watch a 1-2 hour long DVD that explains it all.

Who the fuck reads a 500 page book about fitness? I don't think you understand the /lit/ community.

[Anonymous No.1267070]

there's a place for literature and there's a place for dvds, you're looking for an explanation rather than a perspective of an explanation, which would mislead to to believe what you're watching on your dvd is the whole story, which it is not

[Anonymous No.1267073]

>>1267061

>And what, in the end, isn't primitive?

Then I ran deep. So deep. So deep I put that ass to sleep.

Today was a good day

[3b No.1267086]

Obvious troll is obvious.

if this person realy was as ignorent of litarature and educashon as he clames the post wood look like this.

[Anonymous No.1267122]

Why the hell should you care, OP? No one over the mental age of 16 needs to feel validated by their hobbies - which, of course, explains the sheer amount of herpderping about the "classics" on this board.

[Anonymous No.1267131]

13 years old troll

[Anonymous No.1267138]

literature -500 pages fitness program books