How often do you feel "stupid"?

[Edwardo Piet]

How often do you feel "stupid"?

[jonb]

If I don't feel stupid, when trying to find an answer, it is usually because, I have not thought about all the possibilities within the question.

[Something completely different]

I feel very stupid when on this forum, I oftern dont know if what I`m writing makes any sence, or has the meaning I want it to have, but I do think my english will gradualy become better when time passes.

[Annik]

I feel very stupid when on this forum, I oftern dont know if what I`m writing makes any sence, or has the meaning I want it to have, but I do think my english will gradualy become better when time passes.

Your English (with the exception of some poorly spelled words) is very good. Don't feel stupid!



I feel stupid on a daily basis. There is always some preconceived notion that I had that gets proved wrong purely because I didn't fact-check. I feel very foolish in those situations and now I actively try and verify things before believing them. I also feel stupid when I act with emotion before gathering the facts.

[Angrboda]

There's a distinctinction between being stupid and being wrong. A critical thinking club I joined in the past year asked the question of whether I recalled any recent time that I had recognized that I had been wrong. Their conclusion was that if I didn't, then I was probably not a critical thinker. But they neglect the possibility that maybe it's because I'm usually right, or guarded in opinions where caution and further research is advisable. It reminded me of a series of Youtube videos which was like one of those books where your choices determine the course of the story, and the series title was, "Are you a rational debater?" The first question in the series was, "Can you imagine anything which would change your mind?" Being prescient, and snarky, I answered no, and was greeted with the self-satisfied smarm of this woman telling me I was not a rational debater. When I asked this Youtube poster if there was anything which would change her mind about me not being a rational debater for believing thusly, she said no. I made a few vain attempts to point out that she had constructed a variant of the liar's paradox, but to no avail. She just couldn't comprehend that having a dogmatically unfalsifiable position on the question of falsification itself was itself not a rational position. "Oh well."

Anyway, as a Taoist, I try to embrace my inner stupid. So in some ways I feel it less, as I'm happy it's a part of me. Life is about being human, not simply being smart or right.



The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead.
He is detached, thus at one with all.
Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Ch. 7



"I'm tired of hanging on to you / I mean it this time." — Marti Jones, Back Of The Line

[Tiberius]

Rarely...and when I do, I learn from my stupidity.

[Napoléon]

I wanted to make a snarky comment about how clever I am and how I've never felt stupid before, but I'm too stupid to think of one.

[LastPoet]

Goes without saying Napo

Bazinga!!!

[Ryantology]

I feel stupid only when I am faced with things that seem to be forever beyond my intellect. I can listen to someone talk about the basic concepts of something like particle physics, but throw even the easiest of the equations they use at me and you might as well have handed it to a two year-old.

[Faith No More]

I don't feel stupid; I just feel stupider.