How Stupid Can People Be?
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Articles > Self Improvement and MotivationHow Stupid Can People Be?
by: Gene Simmons
I cant believe she did that! What the hell is he thinking? Any idiot would have better sense than that! Are they all taking dumb pills? Whats the matter with these people? Why am I working with a bunch of morons? He doesnt have the sense God gave a goose!
Do any of these phrases sound familiar? Of course they do. Theyre words we hear or even use almost every day. At times it looks like the world is being overtaken by idiots and to top it off, theyre all reproducing! God help us all!
Isnt there anything we can do to put a few smarts into some of these folks heads? Isnt there something we can do?
So many goof-balls, so little time. Oh where, oh where shall we begin? OK, just as an off-the-wall thought, lets start with the only person in the world over whom we have any control at all. Thatd be us, right? So lets talk about us. Ill start with me.
Not too many years ago, I occasionally used the same types of phrases you read in the first paragraph. Sometimes they were directed toward my boss, sometimes toward my fellow workers. More frequently they were referencing some of the strange things the participants in my classes said or did. Yeah, I cut em down. I questioned (in private conversations, of course) their mental capabilities and common sense. Behind the closed office door, I wasnt always a nice person.
And sometimes I even said these derogatory things even though I didnt completely believe them. Even though I knew they werent really true. Why? Well, because. Because someone else in my group had already made a similar comment and naturally I wouldnt want anyone to ever think that I wasnt an integral, conforming member of my group so I dutifully added my reinforcement to the conversation. It wasnt a nice thing to do.
And then over time I learned. I learned that no one is an idiot. That no one is talking stupid pills. That no one is just breathin good air. No one. I learned that every person that I come into contact with is doing as good as they can do at that particular moment.
That moment in turn, has been shaped by this individuals genetics and the sum of all of his or her experiences up to now. It is the result of all of the mental programming that has occurred in his or her lifetime. It is additionally strongly influenced by any significant events which may now be occurring in this persons life. Events such as illness, money worries, disintegration of relationships or other family problems. Any of these will naturally disrupt a persons train of thought and interfere with his or her ability and perhaps even motivation, to reason logically.
I learned that no matter how much I wanted someone else to think as I do, perform as I do, respond to situations or problems as I do it just aint agonna happen. These other people my boss, my friends, my co-workers, my students, my relatives, the salesperson, the waitress are not me. Theyre them. And as them, theyre going to do the only thing they can do - that they know how to do at that particular moment.
Many of them could probably do better sometime, but not right now. Many of them could probably exercise a little better judgment in the things they say and do. Sometime, but not right now. Many of them could probably benefit from some serious self-evaluation of their thought processes and maybe even their values or morals. Sometime, but not right now.
Right now is all they have to work with. Its all we have to work with. Its all I have to work with for right now. I can live with that. How about you?
About The Author
Gene, through NuPathz.com, provides an easy reading self-help blog along with affordable books and materials written to help folks find the road to a more enjoyable lifestyle, to pass on some of lifes secrets for survival in a chaotic world & offer a few smiles along the way. It's a down-to-earth, simple approach to discovering a better life. You can visit Gene at http://www.nupathz.com/
gene@nupathz.com
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