love feeling stupid, u?

Ah, yes it is. Stumbling upon something you have no understanding of, but would like to, is to me a challenge. I absolutely love those mental exercises. Not just gaining knowledge in a parrotal manner, but actually understanding something I was previously unaware of.

But then again, I'm the kind of person who easily go bored with what I already can. It's "been there, done that!" kind of mentality. I need the influx of new things to occupy me. I'd be miserable if I had a repetitive job for example. Everything new is almost by definition exciting.

 

feeling stupid, no, i am pleased to say it does not please me to feel stupid. being corrected, proven wrong, etc, i love, it shows me i'm learning, or at least broadens my collections of lenses with which to view the

 

Semantics digit. Semantics.

Stupid, ignorant, uninformed. whatever. There are two manners into which to handle it. Learn something new, or stick to your preconceived guns.

The one approach is smart (eventhough you feel stupid at the moment of realization), the other just confirms stupidity. Take your pick

 

"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men." - Albert Einstein

 

k, normally it's easy to say that to me and have it mean something, but i don't see how it quite applies there at all.