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Dumb People, Smart People, and Smarter People | Wittier Thinking — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:19:17 +0000

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By: ryo

ryo — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:45:27 +0000

that totally just happened to me!

By: Skippie

Skippie — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:20:42 +0000

If you read this for long enough you may begin to notice how the word “People” seems to become an oddly strange arrangement of letters that makes you wonder if it is an actual word. Then you stop and ask yourself if the writer made a typo. Only to realise that the over usage of reading it for such an extent of time merely alters the way in which the brain perceives it, making it appear somehow wrong! Now that is smart!

By: nikel

nikel — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:34:58 +0000

just realized the gammer error in the first paragraph sorry

By: nikel

nikel — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:34:04 +0000

HAHA this is so true, some i do agree with but the majority of them i do. I think im a smart person, except the texting and owning guns part.

there was no reason to revoke the article, the beauty of the internet is you can voice your opinion and there is rarely any serious consquences

good article and consider your self bookmarked

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:46:55 +0000

Well, it really depends on what year you live in. U.S. dollars are worth something in 2011, but they might be worth nothing in 2021. The same can be said of Zimbabwe dollars or even gold or silver. For example, if we found a way to bombard mercury or cadmium with alpha or beta particles to make it into gold or silver, gold and silver might become much less valuable.

As for love, we should have a currency that’s worth one unit of love… and then we have to define a unit of love in concrete terms, which is difficult.

By: Aadi

Aadi — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:55:38 +0000

well, you cannot make money out of sex but you can definitely have sex if you have the money.
so for me Money > Sex. Being in love is different, just sex for the sake of it is boring, too much anxiety anyways.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:15:53 +0000

No, people are also motivated by sex, not just money!

By: Aadi

Aadi — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:06:46 +0000

or just not pursue music because it seems most ppl learn music to please others…basically making life as less controversial as possible and keeping money as the only goal. Because if you have money you can have bono come play for you.
It seems money is the only motivation people have, it not a bad thing really, atleast its something constructive and helps u anyways.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:10:53 +0000

That’s true! The important thing is to not agree with people just for the sake of agreeing, nor disagree with them just for the sake of being disagreeable or playing devil’s advocate.

Basically, if you set your life goal to be the pursuit of something rather than that something itself, everything else will fall into place. For example, instead of making your goal to be mastery of music, make your goal the pursuit itself, i.e. practicing music a few hours per day or week while ramping up the difficulty. Instead of setting a goal for having 10,000 visitors on your blog per month, set the goal of increasing the number of visitors in a generally upward direction.

Even further, there is always a smarter or different way to get somewhere. For example, you could set your goal to have more visitors that stay on your site for over 5 minutes, rather than just raw traffic. The underlying goal to this could be to positively impact peoples lives, and the best way to do that is to provide something valuable to them. The best way to do that might be to write out of self-interest, so that you do not become frustrated if you have no tangible signs of providing value to anyone. The journey is the reward.