>yfw meeting somebody smarter than you It's a gut-retching feeling that makes you want to light a firecracker under your tongue and blow your jaw off, that's for sure.

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Anonymous Fri Dec 2 22:58:50 2011 No.4094964 [Reply] [Original]

>yfw meeting somebody smarter than you

It's a gut-retching feeling that makes you want to light a firecracker under your tongue and blow your jaw off, that's for sure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:01:13 2011 No.4094969 Actually, its not. because im not a beta faggot like you.

>>	TheOldFag !!ddNqgd/ihEj Fri Dec 2 23:02:13 2011 No.4094971 File: 987 KB, 271x226, 1313591063030.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] more like >yfw meeting somebody more confident, with girls, more money than you

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:02:21 2011 No.4094972 damn dude i hate your life... it's needless to say that there are so many people out there smarter than you... commit suicide now to avoid meeting them

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:09:01 2011 No.4094988 File: 15 KB, 336x229, 1322617823409.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that feel when they're younger then you too

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:09:10 2011 No.4094989 >>4094964 just convince yourself that you're better in some other (more important) ways this is what i do to everyone i meet. luckily about 70% i can write off because they're not 6'2+

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:10:10 2011 No.4094990 seeing how everyone in the world is smarter than me, i can't relate... lol I only have a 2year degree in Computer Networking, and I'll probably never even get my 4 year in Comp Science.

Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:12:26 2011 No.4094996

>>4094969
This.

OP, you must be taking a social science or something. Every real /sci/entist I know would love to pick the brain of someone smarter than them.

It's like you get mad at some math problem because you don't know how to do it, I'd get more mad if I do know how to do it because that means I gained no new knowledge from solving the problem.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:13:33 2011 No.4095001 >>4094990 lol I have a 3year in comp networking. It's okay but now I'm going to be going to uni for biochem.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:16:57 2011 No.4095003 >>4094964 What? No when I see someone smarter than me I want to absorb their intelligence. I want to train under them like a monk disciple trains under his master. When I can snatch the pebble from his mind, I will be ready.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:16:57 2011 No.4095005 >>4095001 sounds cool bro, mixing shit, making chemicals, etc. : )

Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:16:57 2011 No.4095006

op that's a shitty attitude if you are actually interested in expanding your knowledge and improving your mind. It sounds to me that you see your intelligence as a kind of identity. If you only define yourself in this way then you're no different from some gym rat posting in /fit/ about developing huge pecks and biceps instead of a well-port proportioned and flexible body

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:18:06 2011 No.4095008 >>4094988 >then But yes, it is rather sad. I rarely meet people smarter than me, but when I do, they quickly become my friend.

Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:20:21 2011 No.4095013

>>4095005
Well I like computer networking, security and all that and I even got a 3.9GPA so I'm pretty good at it. The problem is that I've been looking for a job for a year and a half with no luck; everyone wants 2 years job experience at least.

Might as well go back to school for something else I like. I count myself as one of the lucky ones because I've had a parttime job(mostly summers) ever since I turned 18 (23 now) so I don't have debt or anything like that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:24:54 2011 No.4095027 File: 2 KB, 92x135, 1286593076444.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4095006 This.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 23:25:01 2011 No.4095028 >>4095013 lol i hear you on that bro. : )

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:15:08 2011 No.4096618

>being afraid of meeting someone smarter than you
>not thanking the universe for gifting you with the opportunity to better your understanding of the world thanks to the invaluable knowledge that person has to offer you if you make his acquaintance.
>2011

someone told me "if you're the smartest guy in the room, you're in the wrong room".

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:18:41 2011 No.4096628 File: 44 KB, 409x393, 1312395586921.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Wouldn't know. I've never met somebody smarter than me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:19:49 2011 No.4096629 >>4096618 >implying rooms need to be abolished

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:22:14 2011 No.4096638

I'm all the time around people that are smarter than me.
But guess what - I'm still more succesfull than half of them, because I actually work for my grades while they play video games all day.
So get your fucking ass up and do something useful with your life.

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:24:21 2011 No.4096645
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>finding someone smarter than me
I'm okay with this. I hope to get along with this person so I can learn and grow.

>finding someone dumber than me but recognized as smarter through pseudo-intellectual means and shallow desires for smarter status
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:25:29 2011 No.4096648 I love meeting smarter people, especially when they're better in the fields I'm best at. Just have a nice conversation and learn from them.

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:31:09 2011 No.4096661
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>i know i can pull shit out of my ass and people will believe me because i'm viewed as being a genius
>i do it occasionally to see if anyone calls me out on wrong terminology or concepts
>mfw i'm actually average and surrounded by idiots

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:32:18 2011 No.4096664

>>4094989
>Was Salutatorian in HS
>Valedictorian was my best friend
>He was better than me in academics, social life, happiness, and athletics.
>Only thing I had on him was that I was poor and qualified for more need-based financial aid in uni
>Went to cheap ass state school anyway while he went Ivy and paid about the same as me.

How can I justify that I'm better in anything important?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:33:25 2011 No.4096666 why is everybody so obsessed with their 'status' in regards to intelligence?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:33:33 2011 No.4096668 >>4096645 >>finding someone dumber than me but recognized as smarter through pseudo-intellectual means and shallow desires for smarter status The worst part is that when women claim they want intelligent guys, they usually mean those kind of guys.

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:35:42 2011 No.4096672

Some people don't have much. Sure, basing identity on one thing makes you no better than someone who pins identity on another.
But think about why. Maybe that's their only redeeming thing; in their eyes or maybe in others' as well.

So when you see someone that trumps you in that regard... and gives you a run for your money everywhere else.

Well, that crushes you. Especially if you didn't have much to begin with outside of that one feature that you felt was justified in being proud of.

Egos are funny like that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:37:57 2011 No.4096680 >>4096666 When people have nothing special about themselves, they try hard to make themselves feel special through their intelligence.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:37:57 2011 No.4096681 File: 30 KB, 404x375, sophisticatedbump.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4096628 What is your degree and/or major? I contend that I am smarter than everyone on /sci/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:39:06 2011 No.4096684 >>4096666 You generally get more respect and opportunities if you're viewed as intelligent by your peers and employers.

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:40:13 2011 No.4096687

Naa, it's always very fun to meet people smarter than me. Height however...
Meeting someone younger and taller than me, THAT is gut wrenching. I'm 6'1 and live in a Latino Country, I'm used to being a giant amongst dwarves. But then a Dutch comes along and all I can think of is "Holy shit, he/she is tall"

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:40:13 2011 No.4096689

>that feel when I think about the fact that I have never got to meet somebody as smart as myself.
>and then when I am still being jealous of them because they can actually pull out their hands out of their ass and actually work on something.

What decides your worth isn't only your intelligence, it's also what you do with it. Of course though, you may be able to meet someone better than you in everything.
No point in sulking over that if you're still better than the mass (not very hard).

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:45:53 2011 No.4096695

I've never met anyone clearly more intelligent than me. When you get up to a certain point, it's really difficult to say one person is more intelligent than another. Someone like perelman, conway, tesla
(if he were alive) etc. might blow me out of the water, but the chances of finding someone like that even in grad school is slim. But when I know people who have a reputation of being smarter than me just because they have a nerdy demeanor, that makes me angry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:58:21 2011 No.4096715 >i'm not that intelligent >i used to baww when i see people smarter than me >not anymore after college, i am content to be a 9-5 drone with a wife, two kids, and a white picket fence outside my home in suburbia

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 14:58:21 2011 No.4096716 >>4094964 Feels good man. I rarely get to meet people as smart as me (though there are a few), so meeting someone smarter would be pretty awesome. It's very reassuring to know I not the only competent person in the world.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 15:02:53 2011 No.4096731 >>4094964 maybe you would be smarter if you came to terms with your irrational insecurities

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:12:05 2011 No.4097027

Every time I listen to one of my physics professors give a great explanation of a difficult topic to me, I have to hold in a stupidly giddy smile. Listening to someone smarter than you explain something that he or she is knowledgeable about is a wonderful experience.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:17:45 2011 No.4097050 dude, thats not how you react on people who are smarter than you. if he isnt a dick, then try to learn from his intelligence. make friends with him, i am sure you wont get dumber from speaking with him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:17:45 2011 No.4097046 No appropriate face, but as long at They're not condescending, I LOVE meeting people who are smarter than me. I can learn so much, and I'm never bored around them!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:18:54 2011 No.4097051 >>4094990 Do it. Take classes part time. Online if you have to. You'll (probably) be glad you did.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:26:42 2011 No.4097083 It's not a competition to see who's the smartest...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:33:01 2011 No.4097112 >over 9000 people saying they don´t now that feel and I don´t even have to read a single comment to know that

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:35:53 2011 No.4097125 Actually if I were to realize someone were smarter than me I would rejoice and try to learn from them as much as possible.

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:37:09 2011 No.4097134

>When people have nothing special about themselves, they try hard to make themselves feel special through their intelligence.
>You generally get more respect and opportunities if you're viewed as intelligent by your peers and employers.
These are both equally true.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:39:18 2011 No.4097145 Actually, I´m not above average.

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:43:49 2011 No.4097163

>people fighting over who's smarter

As if intelligence is the only thing that matters.

Strength, Dexterity, Charisma. Good shit.

If you aren't smarter than them, maybe you beat them in other ways. Cleverness can beat several different things.

And finally, the universe's cause and effects chain reaction that may benefit you (aka LUCK)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:45:06 2011 No.4097175 There are two kinds. >People smarter than you, with a huge ego >People smarter than you, but still pretty cool The former I hate with a passion. The latter I'm friend with.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:53:01 2011 No.4097202 File: 29 KB, 295x314, 1316626005131.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm pretty cool with it, unless the said person is a huge douchebag dick who's trying to feed his superiority complex on me.

Anonymous Sat Dec 3 17:59:41 2011 No.4097231

When I meet someone smarter than me I realize that I need to learn more shit. Most of the time I feel confident in my specialization because I know that I have knowledge of an entire field that he/she has not even dipped a toe in.

expect when this >>4094988
then I just get that feel

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 3 18:09:45 2011 No.4097267 >>4094964 >2011 >still believes there are people who instantly grasp all concepts for all subjects effortlessly

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