10 Mistakes Intelligent People Never Make Twice

Thanks Macho. That should be on the fridge of every young man going into the world.

Getting married #1 error! !!

I am not an intelligent person because I make those mistakes on a daily basis.

I must be a total dumb ass then.
I have made half of those at least 3 times.

CatsPaw wrote:

Hmm, I may sound very arrogant (not that I care) but I feel I pass 10 for 10.

If someone calls you arrogant, take it as a compliment. In our society, it means that you DARE to think you know better than the majority (which, in fact, you do).

MACHO wrote:

10 Mistakes Intelligent People Never Make Twice

An intelligent person has no trouble saying “I don’t know”.
You can eliminate plenty of mistakes that way.

Admitting “I don’t know” is easy. But some people just can’t do it. Like Leftoids. They make themselves look ridiculous over and over again, and seem to have no problem with it.

Can’t Stump Trump wrote:

If someone calls you arrogant, take it as a compliment. In our society, it means that you DARE to think you know better than the majority (which, in fact, you do).

I get called pretentious and arrogant often. The reality is that most people are complete morons, and a waste of space. God I sound cynical. XD The issue I have with most people is there is no more individuality. Everyone conforms to some ideology. If we had more free thinkers we wouldn’t be in half the messes we are in right now.

MACHO wrote:

3. Failing to delay gratification

Sorry, English is not my first language so I don’t understand this. Will somebody explain this to me?

Anonymous wrote:

Macho wrote:

3. Failing to delay gratification

Sorry, English is not my first language so I don’t understand this. Will somebody explain this to me?

From Wikipedia, in the article “Delayed Gratification”:

Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward. Generally, delayed gratification is associated with resisting a smaller but more immediate reward in order to receive a larger or more enduring reward later. A growing body of literature has linked the ability to delay gratification to a host of other positive outcomes, including academic success, physical health, psychological health, and social competence.

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The seminal research on delayed gratification – the now-famous “marshmallow experiment” – was conducted by Walter Mischel in the 1960s and 1970s at Stanford University. Mischel and his colleagues were interested in strategies that preschool children used to resist temptation. They presented four-year-olds with a marshmallow and told the children that they had two options: (1) ring a bell at any point to summon the experimenter and eat the marshmallow, or (2) wait until the experimenter returned (about 15 minutes later), and earn two marshmallows. The message was: “small reward now, bigger reward later.” Some children broke down and ate the marshmallow, whereas others were able to delay gratification and earn the coveted two marshmallows. In follow-up experiments, Mischel found that children were able to wait longer if they used certain “cool” distraction techniques (covering their eyes, hiding under the desk, singing songs, or imagining pretzels instead of the marshmallow in front of them), or if they changed the way they thought about the marshmallow (focusing on its similarity to a cotton ball, rather than on its gooey, delectable taste).

The children who waited longer, when re-evaluated as teenagers and adults, demonstrated a striking array of advantages over their peers. As teenagers, they had higher SAT scores, social competence, self-assuredness and self-worth, and were rated by their parents as more mature, better able to cope with stress, more likely to plan ahead, and more likely to use reason. They were less likely to have conduct disorders or high levels of impulsivity, aggressiveness and hyperactivity. As adults, the high delayers were less likely to have drug problems or other addictive behaviors, get divorced, or be overweight. Each minute that a preschooler was able to delay gratification translated to a .2% reduction in Body Mass Index 30 years later.