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I thought I was smart. I'm not. I'm clever and good at figuring things out, but there is a difference.
I know that I know nothing, said Socrates thousands of years ago. So I'd say it's beyond clever to teach yourself things and learn from your experiences. That is very smart in my book.
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I thought lizards lived everywhere, and didn't know until I was 18 that Oregon was on the west coast of the US, I thought California ended where Washington started and that Oregon was inland (we did not have geography in school).
When I finally went to college as an adult I took a world geography class as an elective because I felt so incredibly ignorant. Now, even years later I can help my kids with geography, quite a bit of it actually stuck.
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I thought the "purple" skittles were supposed to be brown (I still think they look brown). One day I looked on the package. The rest is history.
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The monte carlo paradox - my brain really refused to grok it for a long time.
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That Tom Brady was a product of a winning system and would be average at best if he played with another organization. What made me realize I was wrong? Fuckin ring number 7 and our (the Bills) absolute owning of New England ever since he left.
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