Why not a popular nerd? "Hackers and painters"

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Author Paul Graham experienced rich. Computer Doctor. Painter. Entrepreneurship Godfather.

A lot of questions have been discussed from personal experience, including nerds. Politics, wealth, entrepreneurship, programming languages. Design and other issues. My greatest feeling is that the author is a very insightful person with independent thinking.

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I know a lot of people who are called nerds when they read books.

From them I found that the "nerd" and "high IQ" have a strong positive correlation. And these people are unpopular students in high school. The more you like reading. The less popular it is, there is a stronger negative correlation between "nerdy" and "popular".

In this way, "Gao IQ" seems to have caused you to be unpopular.

Why is that? If you are still in high school, you will think the problem is very stupid. The undisputed fact is that. In addition to this, it seems very difficult to imagine what other results can be.

But. There will be a different situation indeed. Example. In primary school. The wise students are not marginalized. Again, for example. After graduation, embark on society. Cleverness is not a bad thing. And, as far as I know. In most countries, things are not so serious. Just being a smart student in a typical American middle school is a hassle. Your days are going to be very bad.

Why the hell?

The key to solving this riddle is to change the question into a reference. Why are smart kids not getting popular? Assuming they're really smart, why can't they find a popular trick? They have behaved so well in standardized tests, why can't they be successful in this?

There is a view that other children are jealous of smart students, so smart students cannot be welcomed. I would rather that the explanation is right. Recall, if someone in junior high school really envy me, then they must have a great effort to hide such jealousy can not be found.

And, in any case, assuming that cleverness really makes others jealous, it will attract girls.

Because girls like to be jealous of other boys boys.

At the school I attended, cleverness was nothing but a trivial thing.

The students don't value it either. Nor spit it out.

So, assuming that the intellect itself is irrelevant to "popularity," Why are smart kids not popular with their peers? I think,the answer is that they really don't want to be popular.

If someone had told me the answer at the time, I would have laughed at him. Not popular in school. Your day is very sad, some people even killed themselves. So, if you tell me. I don't want to be popular, it's like you're saying. I was dying of thirst in the desert, but I didn't want to drink water.

Don't make a mistake. Make yourself more popular. That's what I want.

But in fact, I'm not so keen to crave this. What I'd like to pursue is one more thing--smart. It's not just about getting good grades in school (though it's important in a way).

What I really want is to be able to design strange rockets, write beautiful articles, and understand the principles of programming.

In a word, I want to do great things.

because nerds are unpopular and at the bottom of the school, all students use nerds as a security goal to bully. If I remember correctly, the most popular kids don't bully nerds, and they don't have to tread on nerds to get their feet on the top. Most of the bullying comes from students at the next level, those in the middle of anxiety.

The trouble is that such a large number of people. The distribution of popular students is not pyramid-shaped, but is like a pear that is inverted. The bottom gradually narrowed. The number of the least popular is quite small. (I believe.) In the table map we draw, we can call the table D. There's only one table where I am. So the people who want to bully nerds are much more than the nerds who have been bullied.

Even if you can't change anything, but understanding your situation can also make the pain less. Nerds are not losers. They are playing a different game. A game that is closer to real-world conditions. Adults are clear on this point. Successful adults almost all claim that they belong to a nerd in high school.

for nerds. It is important to realize that school is not all life. The school is a very strange, artificially designed system. Half like a sterile room. Half like a savage land.

It's like life, it's all-encompassing, but it's not what it really looks like.

It's just a temporary process, and you can go beyond it just by looking ahead. Even now you're in the middle of it.
Paul Graham "hacker and painter"

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Why not a popular nerd? "Hackers and painters"