03 september 2024
I've stumbled across this video on my recommended feed today. It is not the first one I've found about people describing how they feel about being considered stupid, actually the first one I stumbled onto was made a guy that actually had certified low IQ, and how they're going about improving their condition. The girl in this video considers herself stupid, the video is titled "I am trying to be less stupid", but I don't really think that's the case. Below you'll find some timestamps and my thoughts on those specific segments of the video.
06:22 - I'd be researching hair and makeup and how it redefined your features,
I'd be looking up workouts to target specific parts of my body.
This girl thinks she's stupid, but if, and I wanna stress out IF, she has
developed overtime the skill to look at a face and know exactly which makeup was
used and how to apply it, the same way a woodworker would think about how to go
about making a wooden figure he saw in a store, then she's not really stupid.
She just has a very restricted interest pool, which isn't great don't get me
wrong, but she's not as stupid as she think she is, she's now getting older and
wants to get into stuff other than makeup.
16:13 - Guilt free civilized analog media.
If you think this way then you've really been brainwashed into thinking that the
book is the "tool" of the intellectual. That's just not the case, knowledge
comes in many different forms, looking at books that way it's just elitist. I
have to admit tho, I myself believe that books are the best way to convey
knowledge when it is easily describable in a written form. The reader can go at
their own pace instead of following the one dictated by the director of the
video, they can easily go back and read again a passage that they didn't really
understand and in case of digital books (I guess I'm really making a point for
text media and not necessarily books) you can easily copy-paste excerpts.
And I know that she also said that it is also a way to keep her away from her
phone, which is great, it just rubs me the wrong way how she, and many others,
percieve books.
20:20 - So she read it and understood the gist of it, the goal of the book and the audience it was targeted at. She's beyond the 2nd/3rd grade level, the miminimum below which I believe as an adult someone is actually stupid. Now, she wasn't able to internalize all of the concepts behind the book, I'd assume the book would go on to talk on how to go about interacting with the different types of personalities and not just list which ones there are and what are their characteristics, but for someone that thinks of themselves as stupid, she understood quite a bit. Personally I think she should read narrative fiction, many of these stories are not just written with just the intent of entertainment, the authors usually want to convey some kind of message. Joining a book club would do her good, these are great because they're usually about narrative fiction, and after the individual reading there's a discussion segment. This is a very important part as she can compare what she understood of the book, what she thinks the message is, with other people's understanding of the book. There's also the benefit of having a curated list of book to read, so she wouldn't be blindly buying books that might not deepen or further develop her reading skills. After that she can move onto educational books or essays.