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Uncle PJNow that I’m a mature adult, I can think back to when I was growing up and learning that most adults were not smart. Now that I’ve been an adult for so many years, I can safely say that it is much worse than I could have ever imagined.
BrisVegas@unclepj this!!!
⁰FisherTX14@unclepj
My uncle Eugene showed me what stupid adults were like when I was five. I lowered my expectations then. Saw them at some holidays. He asked me how I was doing, I said fine, how are you? He said , "I'm not up there with the big boys yet, but I'm getting there" He never got there.
My uncle Eugene showed me what stupid adults were like when I was five. I lowered my expectations then. Saw them at some holidays. He asked me how I was doing, I said fine, how are you? He said , "I'm not up there with the big boys yet, but I'm getting there" He never got there.
SnarkyScot@unclepj @Rasta For many years, I thought the "smart" adults got to the top of businesses and organisations.
After becoming an external business advisor, I can honestly say that the handful of genuinely smart folk I met were rare beasts, and even more rarely in charge of said companies and organisations. The ones at the top were usually poor, often aware of that, but never listened to advice.
Evidence? Musk, IBM, HP, DEC, Ford, etc etc.
Rasta™ OLDOMG! I KNOW! I took special courses and training in ISO Quality Systems. It costs companies 10s of thousands to send key employees on these course, expected to return and enhance the business with some quality methods. Some cheap companies (Airlines) sent only their CEO to take the course, they'd be self-policing their own non-compliances. Anyway. I'd never worked in Teams with CEOs before. I don't know how they dressed themselves, they must have inherited a business. DUMB
JKrotkov@unclepj
Especially since the boys who spent every day of fourth grade spending all their energy on being mean for no particular reason are now in charge.
Especially since the boys who spent every day of fourth grade spending all their energy on being mean for no particular reason are now in charge.
🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸@unclepj That's sooo true.... it's scarey
Mrs RavenAnd imagine my surprise when I realized I was smarter than my dad and my mother's criticisms came from ignorance and jealousy!
TBF, they got married in their teens and really did not know a damned thing, but when you are a kid, it takes a while for you to learn the truth.
Phil Nelson@unclepj you can say that again
Mike Mol@unclepj not only are we (adults) not smart, we've been trained for years to believe, individually, that we're the only ones in room whose opinion matters.
It was pointed out to me how common and popular the "only same man" trope is in media. I can recognize now how it's a kind of vigorous stroking and caressing of the viewer/reader/listener's ego.
Now excuse me while I go back to enjoying listening to the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton.
Kris Mitka 
@unclepj we need to return to tribes. At least keep the idiots separated instead of letting them assume government positions.
mathew@unclepj To adjust a quote by J. B. S. Haldane, "The people running the world are not only stupider than we imagine, they are stupider than we can imagine."
@mathew Emphasis on CAN! This is a nice addition.
Howlin’ Hobbit@unclepj I settled on considering myself “moderately bright.” don’t know if that’s objectively true, but strangely enough, it’s mostly worked out moderately well.
Coho@unclepj
So true!
So true!
pawkypaul@unclepj Every morning I hold a minute's silence for those of my brain cells which didn't make it through the night 😪
René Moser (resmo) レネ@unclepj the worst thing is that we tend to evaluate smartness by a position or social status, rich people, politicians or CEOs are considered smart. In contrast, really smart people don't need any position.
Joeri Vlekken@unclepj I had the same experience with teachers 😎
Char@unclepj as a teen I was worried about flunking my driving test. My older sister said,”look at all the idiots out there driving. You’re way smarter than them. If they could pass, you certainly can.”
Patrick Stewart@unclepj yes so much yes
Joshua Leto@unclepj
I used to be young and dumb. Now I’m much older.
I used to be young and dumb. Now I’m much older.