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the word cool is pretty much the opposite of bright so that tracks
What specifically do you mean by this?
Trying to figure out how to be cool by going as far as to write an academic paper is decidedly uncool
It’s something I realized a long time ago about humans. Resources and opportunities go where they are least needed. Want high social status? Your best bet is to need absolutely nothing from anyone. Coolness, in its original sense, is about never caring too much because you will never need to. People are drawn to what doesn’t care about them; they assume the response they get will be objective.
("Hyperbole in reverse")
I've found in my life cool people generally have something to offer, be it inspiration, insight, other otherwise, I feel like cool is often aspirational and differs depending on where someone is trying to go in life. It seems to me cool people have some unique degree of "Culturedness" - this lines up with the traits they found. If you are Extraverted, Hedonistic, Powerful, Adventurous, Open and Autonomous, you're lik…
Great mathematicians have an insane amount of deep insights to offer, but the typical person simply does not have the capacity to absorb these insights. Oh yes, these people are typically introverted "nerds", not the "cool kids".
Trying to figure out how to be cool by going as far as to write an academic paper is decidedly uncool
I've found in my life cool people generally have something to offer, be it inspiration, insight, other otherwise, I feel like cool is often aspirational and differs depending on where someone is trying to go in life. It seems to me cool people have some unique degree of "Culturedness" - this lines up with the traits they found. If you are Extraverted, Hedonistic, Powerful, Adventurous, Open and Autonomous, you're lik…
> I've found in my life cool people generally have something to offer, be it inspiration, insight, other otherwise, Great mathematicians have an insane amount of deep insights to offer, but the typical person simply does not have the capacity to absorb these insights. Oh yes, these people are typically introverted "nerds", not the "cool kids".
In fact, what you wrote and I are highly alined. I have dyscalculia, so what you discribed was indeed exactly cool to me because i aspired to be good in math so I could be a computer scientist. Never managed to become a programmer but in art school I hung with a lot of them, I think we mutually found each other's sides of the academic houses very cool.