How do you make a stupid person smart? - Serious question.

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William Tyndale

William Tyndale

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I have recently met two very stupid people. One is someone in my life semi-permanently and the other I met in passing. The semi-permanent one is relying on me for life advice and wants me to mentor them. The only problem is that they are really fucking dumb. The one I met in passing I could have given life-changing advice to because it was related to my field of work, but I chose not to because I could tell they weren’t going to understand it. So, how do you help someone to be smarter if they are really, really dumb?
 
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Re: person 1. You don't need to be terribly intelligent to be wise. Vice versa, too. Ability to recognise patterns is effectively a different dimension of competency to overall behavioural direction and moderation - in spite of the two being somewhat linked.
Re: person 2. What was the life-changing advice related to your field of work? Was it something they wouldn't understand because the advice was in regard to application of technical knowledge you assumed they didn't possess?
 
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Re: person 1. You don't need to be terribly intelligent to be wise. Vice versa, too. Ability to recognise patterns is effectively a different dimension of competency to overall behavioural direction and moderation - in spite of the two being somewhat linked.
Re: person 2. What was the life-changing advice related to your field of work? Was it something they wouldn't understand because the advice was in regard to application of technical knowledge you assumed they didn't possess?
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Good point about the patterns. The advice was to fix a disastrous thing that had happened in her life. It was a process that involved several steps and I could tell by the deer-in-headlights look she gave me that everything I told her was going to go in one ear and out the other. It wasn’t computer-technical but it did require her to take several steps to remedy it. But I realized it wasn’t going to happen.
 
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Whatever you do, just remember you can't force change. They have to choose to make the effort. Don't feel too bad if it doesn't go to plan.
 
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There used to be this cartoon where you could strike a stupid person about the head with something metal, like a trash lid, and they would become smart.
But you could only strike once - the second strike will return them to stupidity.
 
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