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Most People Are Underwater
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| So the way that I view most people as a whole, the way that I view most people, whether this is helpful for you or not, I don't know, but I view most people as they're underwater. | |
| Like, you know how you can sprint and run and run upstairs? | |
| So imagine if you were underwater, right? | |
| Like you were a gill man or something like that. | |
| So if you were underwater, you couldn't run. | |
| You could only move kind of slowly because you're not a shark. | |
| You can't swim with the fins, right? | |
| You're just a human being. | |
| You can breathe underwater, or maybe... | |
| So I just view... | |
| Most people are just underwater. | |
| So I can just run all over the place, go up and down stairs, and I can... | |
| And stuff like that, and they're just... | |
| So it's kind of like if you're playing tag, and other people are underwater, or moving as if they're underwater, and you're not. | |
| Like, the game of tag is completely boring. | |
| That's how I kind of feel in debates, right? | |
| So I just experience other people as just... | |
| They're just the sea people. | |
| They're just the underwater people. | |
| It's slow motion sickness, right? | |
| And again, no hate. | |
| It's not their fault. | |
| It's just that my mind works very rapidly. | |
| And other people's minds just seem kind of painful. | |
| And I used to get quite frustrated because I used to be like, get there faster! | |
| And it's like, no, that's unfair because they're underwater. | |
| They can't run. | |
| Because every time they try to run, they just bounce off and float a little bit. | |
| And then they have to wait to come back down. | |
| And then they might run again, but they just float a little bit more. | |
| They're just zero-gravity people, right? | |
| They can't run. | |
| They can't run. | |
| Having to constantly explain stuff to people who can't understand is super frustrating. | |
| Well, and that's just the intellectual stuff, because with the intellectual stuff comes the emotional stuff. | |
| When the slow types gravitate to project management and provide negative value, Yeah, because a lot of people who are just kind of really slow are perceived as thoughtful. | |
| There was some actor who was trying to give another film actor advice, like, how do you look so thoughtful? | |
| I don't know, I just look down at a spot on the floor and kind of space out. | |
| Elon Musk, he struggles to speak because he has so many other thoughts going on at once. | |
| Well, Kevin Samuels, he would sometimes start three different thoughts at the same time. | |
| You're describing my husband's job to a T. | |
| And it is genuinely difficult for people. | |
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| I'd appreciate that. | |
| It's genuinely difficult for people because they can't comprehend how good you are at things. | |
| Right? | |
| They cannot comprehend how good you are at things. | |
| They just get baffled and confused and annoyed. | |
| And in general, when I was a kid, I was constantly told by people to slow down. | |
| They would just get annoyed. | |
| I remember with my brother, we had these TVs, right? | |
| We always had these cheap old 12-inch black and white TVs with these ripples on them because we always got them secondhand. | |
| Trying to watch Wimbledon was like a dreamscape from a Besson film. | |
| And when I wanted to go from Channel 12 to Channel 4, I'd just go, and I'd always land on Channel 4. It was pretty easy, right? | |
| My brother would get so mad. | |
| You're going to break the TV. It's like, I'm not going to break the TV. And people would always just slow down. | |
| Like, no, speed up. | |
| But that's not possible, right? | |
| I mean, the only thing worse than being frustrated by slow people is just being a slow person. | |
| I can't imagine. | |
| I can't imagine being baffled by dust moats and confused by anything beyond the range of the moment. | |
| Because, you know, you've got your narrow area of sad expertise and then there's just these vague shadows of things that move. | |
| And, you know, the worst thing about being the average is how much they fucking fake it. | |
| They fucking fake it, the stinky ass, middle of the bell curve liars. | |
| They lie. | |
| Have you ever had this where you're talking, I used to have this in the business world sometimes, marketing people. | |
| I remember there was one when I had my first programming job, some guy had a spreadsheet, and he was telling me how it was, in fact, it was a trader out there on the work floor, and he was telling me about it was a neural net, and I'm like, that's not a neural net, that's a spreadsheet, you liar. | |
| Like, when you're good at stuff, you realize just how many people are faking it, and it's really crippling. | |
| Like, when you hear people, I understand tariffs. | |
| No, you don't. | |
| No, you don't. | |
| I mean, if you've done Austrian economic stuff or basic free market stuff and so on. | |
| You know, Paul Krugman and people are just bullshitting. | |
| They don't know what they're talking about. | |
| They don't have any particular principles. | |
| They're just saying shit. | |
| They're just saying what is popular. | |
| They're saying what gives people more power. | |
| And they get paid and elevated based upon their ability to just fucking lie. | |
| I was reading The Economist, God Help Me. | |
| God Help Me. | |
| I used to read that thing a lot. | |