FifthWheel
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The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know! 
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Do you ever wish you were smarter?
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Bozz10mm
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What I don't know, could fill an encyclopedia.
Gulfecho
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As Joe Walsh says, "if you act like you know what you are doing, everybody thinks that you do."
My son thinks....
You are in an enviable position there. For some reason my 17 year old son thinks I'm the stupidest man in the world. And it doesn't matter what I tell him.
Nope...and I really don't give a darn what my IQ is or isn't. Doesn't matter. What matters most to me is that, for some reason, my grandchildren think I'm the smartest man in the world, and by golly, I ain't gonna tell 'em no different!
You are in an enviable position there. For some reason my 17 year old son thinks I'm the stupidest man in the world. And it doesn't matter what I tell him.
Excellent point...
We need a way to measure W.Q. I think I would score much better there. The longer I live my IQ keeps getting less and less, but my W.Q. grows by leaps and bounds. I'm sure that one day though, both scores will be nil, but that's just life.
We need a way to measure W.Q. I think I would score much better there. The longer I live my IQ keeps getting less and less, but my W.Q. grows by leaps and bounds. I'm sure that one day though, both scores will be nil, but that's just life.
fiasconva
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I really don't wish I was smarter but my wife wants me to be. *s*
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You are in an enviable position there. For some reason my 17 year old son thinks I'm the stupidest man in the world. And it doesn't matter what I tell him.
Give him 10 years, your IQ will double. Joe
You are in an enviable position there. For some reason my 17 year old son thinks I'm the stupidest man in the world. And it doesn't matter what I tell him.
Same with my 18 year old. I figure that once he gets out into the real world and starts making his own way my IQ will rise precipitously.
38SPL HV
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I was tested with a fairly high IQ, just south of genius. Considering the dumb things I've done through life, I don't put much credence on its importance to success.
I often wonder if I wouldn't be better off trying to "UN-LEARN" some things. I believe you can know too much !!! Sort of clean out my ram. I worked in the oilfields when I was a young man and I can still remember the names of all the leases I worked, plus how many joints of tubing and how many rods were in each well. That's been over thirty years ago. I need to let it go. Last week I had one of my children ask me if I ever started to do something and all of a sudden forgot what it was I was about to do. I said all the time. Well what do you do about it. I go back to what I was doing, if it was of any importance, you'll remember, then you'll go take care of it. I haven't had a flathead V-8 in over 40 years, but I know how to overhaul one. I know how to pour babbit bearings in a Buda engine and how to set the points on a Fairbanks Morris one lung engine. But one thing I know very well and I see this younger generation hasn't learned is " If it ain't broke, don't fix it" Oh well, I get by, I still shine my boots, wash my old truck, wear my old pistols, tell old stories and offer advice to anyone who will listen.
I wish I was as smart as I think I am..........
OLDSTER
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Another advantage of being OLD ( as in over 70). I know longer care that people think I'm just plain stupid; I can blame it all on being old
Another advantage of being OLD ( as in over 70). I know longer care that people think I'm just plain stupid; I can blame it all on being old
If I were smarter I couldn't talk to myself.
carpriver
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Someone said that we all rise to the level of our own incompetence.
rog8732
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I finally got to the level on the "smartness gauge", that I now know every stupid thing I ever did; I realized it was going to be stupid before I did it.
That it was surely going to bring blood and hurt,... it was going to cost me money,... it was going to alienate a friend,.. or it was going to wreck a possession I thought highly of.
I just never got smart enough to NOT do it.
That it was surely going to bring blood and hurt,... it was going to cost me money,... it was going to alienate a friend,.. or it was going to wreck a possession I thought highly of.
I just never got smart enough to NOT do it.
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I finally got to the level on the "smartness gauge", that I now know every stupid thing I ever did; I realized it was going to be stupid before I did it.
That it was surely going to bring blood and hurt,... it was going to cost me money,... it was going to alienate a friend,.. or it was going to wreck a possession I thought highly of.
I just never got smart enough to NOT do it.
Sounds like wisdom right there. A person doesn't necessarily need to be "school smart" to be wise. I once worked construction with an old "African-American" man. He had a 3rd grade school education, son of sharecroppers. I don't reckon I have met an individual with more wisdom in my whole life. Everything in this world was crystal clear and simple to this man, and the proper course of action commenced immediately. Sometime he would tire of my "jitterbug" antics and just say "Boy, you need to get your mind right!" Took another 20 years for me to get it. Joe
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