“I'm not smart enough.” • Hacker News Board

Re: “I'm not smart enough.”

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Post by Dewie » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 11:54 PM UTC

steven777400 wrote: post #7

The thing is, there are definitely different levels of persistence required and that's obvious to most people who struggle. When I was school, I almost never studied, and even skipped class with some regularity. Still got good grades. It just wasn't hard. It didn't take persistence. Fast forward. Now my wife is in school and she studies like crazy hours every day and still doesn't absorb the material well. It takes h…

Of course this post ends up at the top. Keep patting yourself on the back, HN.

Re: “I'm not smart enough.”

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Post by toddan » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 1:05 AM UTC

hedgew wrote: post #15

Many people are genuinely not "smart" enough. Saying they are, is likely to cause suffering and waste resources, on both personal and societal levels. It's also insulting towards the intellectually disabled. "I'm not smart enough" is not always a cop-out, or "a (lame) excuse". It can be a sign of maturity, and a cause of significant respite. Knowing your limits allows those who are intellectually limited to pursue ta…

Exactly people are different, some are smarter than others. Otherwise everybody would be an engineer or medical doctor or some other high status high paying job.

This whole mentality that everybody are born equal in mental capacity is a likely cause of stress and depression among many people today.

People are born tall, small, fat, skinny, smart, supid. Just find your level and optimize your own happiness.

Re: “I'm not smart enough.”

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Post by jimkri » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 6:41 PM UTC

I get this all the time. People ask me what I am doing in school and I tell them I am majoring in Business Management with a Computer Science minor.

All people hear is the Computer Science part and every conversation people say, "Oh you must be smart," or "I could never do that."

My response is always, "Nope I am not crazy smart. I just really love computers and I keep at it." People always associate CS with being a genius, I am no genius. I am just a hard headed guy who loves computers, and will always keep trying to get better at whatever I am doing no matter how many times I fail.