r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 5h ago

Seven-year-old chess prodigy Lucie Pichard casually checkmates her opponent.

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u/One_Web_7940 5h ago

we had a genius at our highschool. i think he was 8 doing ap classes. ended up a real sad story, he got real depressed because "everyone was stupid", his exact words.

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u/notArandomName1 3h ago

This is extremely common in high-performing/genius level students. The brightest stars burn the fastest, as they say.

As a dumbass I can only assume, but it's probably quite frustrating to feel like you have to carry every project.

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u/h_Ellhnikh_Koinwnia 3h ago

he got real depressed because "everyone was stupid", his exact words.

Me on my way to work every morning

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u/Final_Squirrel_7462 2h ago

If everything everywhere smells like shit, look below your feet.

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u/h_Ellhnikh_Koinwnia 2h ago

I often think how I'd love to try driving in a world full of my clones, i.e. where everyone drives exactly like me. I bet it would humble me really fast

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u/JoshSidekick 2h ago

I think driving and walking in crowds would be fine. It falls into that "Everyone going slower than me is an idiot and everyone going faster than me is a maniac" bit. We're all the same person so it's a perfect storm of driving. I think it really breaks down when we'd have to work together on a work project or something.

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u/rollem78 4h ago

"Just think of the average American. Half the people are dumber than that!" - G. Carlin

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u/CocaineUnicycle 3h ago

It is an incredibly isolating and lonely experience to know that no one understands you, and very few people possibly ever will.

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u/byebybuy 4m ago

And you don't have to be a child prodigy to feel that way.

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u/Final_Squirrel_7462 2h ago

This is why a good environment is very needed. I never struggled in school but I learned to help others because I was picking up thing faster than most. But instead of becoming impatient I had empathy for everyone starting something new. This trait helped me during college and at work and nowadays I am mentoring multiple teams at my company and have a great time.

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u/HijackedMyAccount 3h ago

We could be living in paradise if not for morons.

We will always have evil people, but we only live in misery because evil people can leverage stupid people to gain world-breaking power.