High Cognitive Minds

If you're an average person, millions before you have already figured out most of what you need to know to get through life. How to behave, what to think, what to believe, what to buy. All you have to do is pay attention, follow their example, and you're home free. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. But some don't have such an easy time of it. They go through life not quite being able to figure out why things are done this way and not that way. Or why some things aren't to be talked about, and certainly not questioned.

They take a close look at what we call common sense and find it lacking—in logic, in depth, in consistency. They see that the world runs mostly on common sense, and that it doesn't run very well. But it doesn't take very long to realize that nobody appreciates someone poking and prying into their reality, especially if the result is serious questions about that reality. If you haven't realized that by the second or third grade, then you might just as well learn to go along and get along. The wheel has already been invented; just get with the program.

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