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Tangent: If I don’t like Minesweeper or Chess, am I still a smart? I really think these games stink. Need to know guys.
by runawaybottle 6y ago
Tangent:
If I don’t like Minesweeper or Chess, am I still a smart? I really think these games stink.
Need to know guys.
- Anon4Now 6y agoA few years ago, an HN'r posted his "bugsweeper" version here (https://www.ronilan.com/bugsweeper/ https://www.ronilan.com/bugsweeper/). I have wasted hundreds of hours playing that game. If you haven't wasted countless hours, then you are at least smarter than me.
- erulabs 6y ago“Smart” isn’t a useful concept, or identity. I strongly recommend doing away with mentally picturing people as various gradients of smart. What matters in life is effort. Of course not enjoying chess has no relation to intelligence. If you give it some time, chess is an extremely rewarding activity. I don’t meditate, but chess and cycling are quite close. It’s a hard departure from the speed of modern life. One comment I will make, is that expressing ones dislike of an activity, rather than either staying silent or joining, is certainly not a good sign for being “a smart” though. Life is too short to be negative!
- NateEag 6y agoSome activities are destructive. One has a responsibility to complain about those.
- Jaruzel 6y agoDefine 'smart'? For me, smart means not only knowing things, but knowing WHAT to do with that knowledge and how to apply it beyond what they learnt. As an aside, High IQ != Smart