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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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I guess we just notice the "bad ones," if you want to call them that. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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