One thing that has consistently dogged me throughout my life is my (or at least I feel like) subpar problem solving capabilities. It’s not to say that I’m totally inept or anything, I just feel like in the heat of the moment or when I have a very short time limit to synthesize and execute a solution, I often choose the fastest path towards the goal which may not necessarily be the best but at that point, I think it is the best. It wouldn’t be an issue except that I feel like it leads to unexpectedly undesirable cascading outcomes down the line. Sometimes, I can’t really even come up with a solution.
I felt this way all last weekend so I decided that I would spend time this week, outside of normal activities, searching for uncommonly smart applicable wisdom. The goal would be to have outlier results in the future using said pieces of information.
This also made me wonder if I’m more Neanderthal than modern human in imperceptible, minute genetic terms. But as I did some cursory research, I found that Neanderthals were not as intellectually challenged as their pejorative nicknames suggested. I guess if anyone has a right to feel maligned and mischaracterized by words and media, it’s them.
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