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On Wednesday 26 November 2008 07:05:39 Dale wrote: |
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> I'm not expecting a answer but along the lines of a viewpoint in a |
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> question form. Why is it that smart, I mean seriously smart, people |
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> have the worst social skills? They can invent a super fast CPU, memory |
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> chip, hard drive some new chemical, or some other ingenious thing but |
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> can't say a kind word if you give them a double dose of Prozac. |
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> Sort of strange huh? |
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Easy. |
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It's not that smart people have zero social skills. Smart people have the same |
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spread of social skills as average and dumb people. |
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Some smart people do not suffer fools gladly and they rise to prominence |
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whereas others just act like everyone else and you do not especially note |
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this fact. Smart people who work with machines get to be very good at it, but |
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machines don't talk back. Some smart folk take to talking to people the way |
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they talk to machines and this is noteworthy. Again, you do not take note of |
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the majority that do not do this. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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