Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 07:05:39 Dale wrote: > >> I'm not expecting a answer but along the lines of a viewpoint in a >> question form. Why is it that smart, I mean seriously smart, people >> have the worst social skills? They can invent a super fast CPU, memory >> chip, hard drive some new chemical, or some other ingenious thing but >> can't say a kind word if you give them a double dose of Prozac. >> >> Sort of strange huh? >> > > Easy. > > It's not that smart people have zero social skills. Smart people have the > same > spread of social skills as average and dumb people. > > Some smart people do not suffer fools gladly and they rise to prominence > whereas others just act like everyone else and you do not especially note > this fact. Smart people who work with machines get to be very good at it, but > machines don't talk back. Some smart folk take to talking to people the way > they talk to machines and this is noteworthy. Again, you do not take note of > the majority that do not do this. > > >
I guess we just notice the "bad ones," if you want to call them that. Dale :-) :-)
