There’s a whole demographic of people who are profoundly incurious and just assume everyone else is too, so when they see something unfamiliar they immediately rush to declare that not only have they never heard of it, none of you did either. You’re just pretending. You had to look it up, don’t lie. You didn’t know this
And like, so what if someone had to look something up. That’s how you learn new things. People usually say this about knowledge that’s pretty damn basic, but I can’t get over how they’re not only scornful at the idea of people trying to learn something new, they casually assume everyone else is, too
One of my friends constantly insists that she’s not very smart, certainly not as smart as the people around her. I keep pointing out that she’s constantly looking up things she doesn’t know about and asking follow-up questions when she doesn’t understand something. And that intellectual curiosity is 90% of what matters to being “smart.”
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