littlesarbonn -> RE: Know it alls (11/26/2006 2:19:06 PM)
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I kind of run into a different problem as a realized "know it all". I'm well educated, and I've experienced a lot of real world things to help me see the world in ways that quite a few others do not. It doesn't mean that I'm right all the time; but it does mean that I have a highly evolved perspective on a lot of things. I often tell people that I consider myself a true Socratic (the early Plato, not the Plato that used Socrates as his mouthpiece) in that I truly believe that I do not know everything, and thus, my necessity in life is to examine every avenue and overturn every stone in the hopes of finding better evidence than I already have. I could sit on my laurels and talk about multiple higher level degrees, but even those weren't accomplished as a desire to be a know it all, but to explore further pieces of information that I found lacking within myself. I'm still in school because there are answers that others have come to that I am still interested in exploring. I think my peers probably hate me in the whole academic discipline thing mainly because I spend more time deconstructing what everyone has accepted as scientific dogma than I do adding to the accepted knowledge. The problem for me is that I spend most of my social time looking for the woman who is of that same nature, an inquisitive soul who doesn't have to be a rocket scientist but has enough wisdom to know how to explore knowledge for the sake of finding desired answers. I thought i found her once, and I became her slave, but she was going through relationship problems at the time that fell apart soon after I arrived, which had nothing to do with me. I lost her and contact with her as a result. I've been searching ever since. I don't consider myself a genius. Hell, I have trouble figuring out where to fill out my name on an IQ test. But I can't begin to tell you how many "geniuses" hate my guts because they had a verbal conversation with me that didn't end with them walking away thinking they got over on this clueless Socratic because they were well educated from some of the finest institutions. I guess what I'm driving at here is that I have dealt with some very brilliant people in my time, but what made them brilliant was the fact that almost always they were interested in exploring NEW information from those a "genius" would never even socialize with. Anyway, back to my crayons and coloring books....
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