No amount of books that I read will make me stop being stop being stupid.
>>24834226>stop being stop being stupid
>>24834226Lies. You'll stop being stupid at 480 books. Get cracking, and digest the prose with humility!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24834226Better to be stupid than to be ignorant
>>24834226As long as you recognize you don't have the highest IQ and read accordingly, I think you'll be fine. The problems arise when dumb people think they're smart and get in over their heads
>>24834226At least you're not ESL.
>>24834635Being stuck a retard is preferable to convincing yourself you're intelligent?
>>24834834accepting your own level of intelligence is preferable to falsely believing that it's higher than it is.
>>24834226Read a math book.
>>24834593>Better to be stupid than to be ignorantI'm stealing this
>>24834635>>24836660You're right in your reply to the second guy, but IQfags are so painfully patronizing. No better than redditors in that regard.
>>24834226Working out and building muscles will unironically make your brain function better and make you smarter
>>24836689This.
>>24834226Why do these threads always attract the wisest anons? It almost makes me forget that I most likely called one of you a retard in another thread and likewise.
How come I can read a lot of early modern English works, like the writings of the Puritans, and understand it just fine.. but can't understand any philosophy? Someone posted a line from Schopenhauer, who I'm told is one of the more plain-speaking and accessible philosophers, and I read it 5 times and still couldn't make sense of it?Philosophy makes me feel legitimately retarded, and as a result I hate it and cope by calling it useless nonsense.
>>24837373I tried reading The Crying Lot the other day, too, and couldn't follow anything and got.mad and threw it away, lol
>>24834226Human cognition is necessarily limited, so everybody has a point of complexity beyond which he does not understand things. I have like 145+ IQ bit that doesnt change the fact that I have seen 170 or 160 IQ people talk and be astounded by their ability to make reasonable and insightful connections. I can only work with what I've got and so do you. Books will give you an advantage in crystallized intelligence, so they will at least dampen your self perceived stupidity.Also in the current time average IQ falls, so high IQ people literally get no pussy.
>>24836660Misery isn't always preferable to bliss.
does reading make you more intelligent, or just more knowledgeable? huh? i feel like i need to read wittgenstein now.
