some people never recover from being the smartest person in their high school and you can clock them immediately
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@Daojoan I went to MIT and 90% of us there were facing that, big time. The recovery was destabilizing for many but at least we had good company.
@Daojoan At the risk of humble-bragging, I was never the smartest in high school, but I was definitely among the smartest in college. I never really treated it as a big deal because I was really interested in the course, had already learned loads around it (using computers since I was a teen) and was eager to learn more. Well, maybe that doesn't make me the smartest, but it did set me up to excel in that environment.
I wonder what people would make of me now. I wonder would they think I haven't got over myself? Possibly.
I wonder, what are some of the red flags that alert mere mortals(*) that someone is such a person?
() yeah, I'm not actually that stuck up (I think) that I look down on "less smart" people than myself. Or maybe I am? Anyway, if I *do resemble that insinuation, it would be nice to understand the signs...
@Daojoan That was me in high school. A combination of changing majors three times in college, crashing out of grad school after one semester, then going bankrupt a few years afterward were painful but necessary lessons for me to recover fully from smartkiditis. Of course, I ended up in IT as a profession, where that personality is still quite evident today ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
@Daojoan I was, but that was a low bar to clear. What I truly never got over was how hated I felt just for knowing things like how to turn on a computer. I still struggle to accept that it's now ok to know how to press a power button on the big scary machine today. Being a nerd back then was... frowned upon... I may never get used to the fact that I'm allowed to be now.
@Daojoan Any suggestions on how I can get over that? 😄🤪🙄
