thecel
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Many people here think normies are dumb, but I actually envy normies for their incredible brainpower when it comes to general knowledge. Normie brains seem to be "selectively smart," if you will. They're able to memorize, rapidly access, and quickly process a vast library of knowledge, unless the subject of that knowledge is very academic.
Most people are able to store extremely large amounts of the following types of knowledge, including but definitely not limited to:
Not to mention they can come up with jokes on the spot to go with the facts.
That's just amazing to me. My brain deals with current events and AP US History pretty much the same. I have the same difficulty recalling clothing brands and song lyrics as vocab lists and polyatomic ions. They're all just knowledge; they're the same shit to me. If I want to remember things, I have to study them and review them, or else I'll forget them.
Like it never fails to astonish me how my friends can remember so much shit about the animes that they watch while I struggle to remember the gas laws in AP Chemistry and the kinematic equations in AP Physics.
It's even like that with users and content on Looksmax.me. If we were to have a Looksmax meetup, and y'all ask me something like "yo remember what [username] posted in your thread about ___?" I wouldn't be able to recall it because my brain doesn't automatically keep track of that stuff. I have to manually memorize pretty much everything that I want to retain. I might remember the gist of some posts I found funny, but I probably won't have a clue who posted what.
Talking to people about things other than girls is hard for me because my brain doesn't have a "general knowledge turbo boost." It's the same slow access speed for all kinds of information in my long-term memory. Even when I'm talking to someone about a subject I do have a good memory of, I still suck ass since I can't rapidly synthesize all the knowledge in the background in real-time like most people can; I always have to think.
Most people are able to store extremely large amounts of the following types of knowledge, including but definitely not limited to:
- personal experiences
- stuff other people said and did
- (in school) who's dating who, who does what extracurricular activities
- place names and locations
- clothing brands and what clothes are what brand
- plots of movies and shows
- things happening on social media
- news and current events
- artists, songs, and lyrics
- stuff celebrities are doing
- controversial issues
- history
- politics
- etc.
Not to mention they can come up with jokes on the spot to go with the facts.
That's just amazing to me. My brain deals with current events and AP US History pretty much the same. I have the same difficulty recalling clothing brands and song lyrics as vocab lists and polyatomic ions. They're all just knowledge; they're the same shit to me. If I want to remember things, I have to study them and review them, or else I'll forget them.
Like it never fails to astonish me how my friends can remember so much shit about the animes that they watch while I struggle to remember the gas laws in AP Chemistry and the kinematic equations in AP Physics.
It's even like that with users and content on Looksmax.me. If we were to have a Looksmax meetup, and y'all ask me something like "yo remember what [username] posted in your thread about ___?" I wouldn't be able to recall it because my brain doesn't automatically keep track of that stuff. I have to manually memorize pretty much everything that I want to retain. I might remember the gist of some posts I found funny, but I probably won't have a clue who posted what.
Talking to people about things other than girls is hard for me because my brain doesn't have a "general knowledge turbo boost." It's the same slow access speed for all kinds of information in my long-term memory. Even when I'm talking to someone about a subject I do have a good memory of, I still suck ass since I can't rapidly synthesize all the knowledge in the background in real-time like most people can; I always have to think.
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