AlphaGrindset
Reflection: Not doing anything is how you get smart
Your thinking patterns develop and evolve when you're unfazed by external stimuli. Just alone with your mind, and constructing new ways to think.
Children who get time to dream imagine think that way, go on to be the smartest
Introverts often naturally become good thinkers
As children use more tech, they'll become dumber in ways of thinking. But they'll have more tools and info at their disposal.
The creative fabric of society will collapse after AI.
^from my notebook
1mo ago4.5K views
DaringTrain
Stealth1mo
Let's try to poke holes:
Children who dream a lot, also don't do homework and don't get straight As and don't go to Ivy league colleges and don't become CS software grads who code for OpenAI/ Nvidia and don't become millionaires by 30
Introverts become good thinkers but also become overthinkers, overthinking about everything, afraid to take the plunge to ask people out; Overthink about their relationships and as a result lose great relationships. Also, introverts never become sales people and it's the sales people that become face of companies and CEOs and millionaires by 30.
Did all of what I said true? No. Did all of what you said true? No We generalized basis few anecdotal examples. If it was so easy to make people smart, there would be books about it.
I don't know what "smart" even means. It's such a vague term. Is IQ a benchmark of smartness? Is salary? Is wealth? Is role/status?
Some Introverts are also smart. Some Extroverts are also smart. Children who don't touch technology in early formative years also become smart. Children who start to code at 10 also become smart.
Magnus Carlsen, whose father got him into chess at 5, and used chess engines all his life, is also smart.
Gukesh, who never used chess engines till 15, and will probably become the youngest chess world champion in the world, is also smart.
AlphaGrindset
Totally totally Not saying one group is smarter between introverts or extroverts. That I agree is wrong.
I'm saying kids have had free time to think so far, but that might change - we're yet to see the first generation hooked to smartphones become adults. And there's rapid changes happening in terms of screen time.
We form new ways to think when we're thinking on our own, not when we're engaged in something.
My observation wasn't so much about smart vs non smart today, but I think more so about how the average brain was 10-20 years ago vs how it'll change in a few decades.
CuriousSaucy
Capgemini1mo
People used to feel boredom, used to do nothing or lost in day dreaming. Now, whenever they feel boredom they start scrolling social media or maybe they don’t know what boredom is because they are mindlessly scrolling social media at anytime; all the time.
TommyBhai
Exactly. I mean I sorta do that at times too but looking at the world around me, frightens me. A lot.
AlphaGrindset
on second thought - not creative fabric of society But general creativity of most humans
inr
Oracle1mo
Too damn right. Brain needs idle time to process stuff consciously and come up with new thoughts and ideas. With constant engagements, we rob it of that.
SoggyBasil4
Paytm1mo
Absolutely correct, knowing more about yourself makes you a better version of yourself.
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