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I'm a pretty bright cat, in that I'm world-class good at inductive and deductive reasoning, and better at making intuitive leaps (where I "get it" but I can't e
by jzellis 4y ago
I'm a pretty bright cat, in that I'm world-class good at inductive and deductive reasoning, and better at making intuitive leaps (where I "get it" but I can't explain how I get it). It's served me very well in my life, but I have constantly been undermined by my own inability to focus and the fact that I often abandon ideas and projects because I'm easily bored with them or I can see why, ten steps down the road, why they'll turn out to be a bad idea. It's like conceding a chess game ten moves in because you can already see you're screwed.
Consequently, I'm basically a failure as far as career goes. A lot of dumb people have much easier and more luxurious lives than I do, because they just get to doing the thing without ever worrying or caring if the thing is worth doing in the first place. This used to bug me, but it no longer does.
- cranium 4y agoI was like that until I consciously started doing more and thinking less (about the ramifications). You need to start small and solve a small pain for you, then go from there. You will encounter problems but you will have your full mental power to solve them. You cannot solve the big problems from ten steps ahead, you're simply not involved enough to give it your best shot. It's during the crisis that you'll find a creative solution. To take your chess analogy, if you concede at the start you're assuming the opponent will play perfectly and grind you until defeat. But mistakes are made and the balance shifts. In real life, opportunities are created just from starting something. You will learn even from the smallest task, and speaking about it to other people might open new paths for you.
- rramadass 4y agoGreat Insight!