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The More You Know
Jun. 17th, 2010 02:53 pmSince gaming got cancelled for this week, I wound up wandering up to NE for pub trivia with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_dilate_, since her team is kind of in flux. They go all the time, and said it was a particularly difficult set of trivia questions this week, but man, we got clobbered. I often surprise myself with the various bits of trivia I know, when I do things like play Trivial Pursuit, but just, WOW. That was a humbling experience, heh. ;)
This just highlights a notion I've had in the past that, although I *am* intelligent, I'm not particularly wise in some areas. I've always had a strong interest in knowing how to Do, to Create, to accumulate skills, and I pursue that wholeheartedly. However, I think that's sometimes been to the exclusion of building general knowledge.
I've always learned quickly, and picked up skills easily in a number of areas, and I've always been confident in my intelligence. I know I'm above-average. Still, I've always been most interested in knowledge that I can apply to my life and the things I do, so I tend to get fixated on those areas. But, when it comes to holding a conversation about a lot of topics, my knowledge tends to run more surface-level, and I'm usually not the person who whips out the random factoids, or brings up interesting talking points.
I also sometimes feel like an unholy union of ADD and OCD traits, which doesn't help me at all. I seem to have more and more difficulty focusing on a task nowadays, but when I *do* find something I can focus on, I can get fixated to the point of obsession. This is great for the few things I actually do spend a lot of time on, because I can familiarize myself with them quickly and very well, but it doesn't exactly leave me a lot of energy for exploration outside of it.
It makes me sad sometimes that there's so much of the world I haven't seen, and know very little about. Obviously, I have to pick and choose with my time, but that's very difficult to accept... which is probably why I have such a strong tendency to overcommit my time. There are too many things I want to know, AND too many things I want to do, and I want all of it.
Well, I suppose there are worse things to be greedy about than knowledge and skill. So it's not a bad thing, it's just something that needs to be coped with. :)
_dilate_, since her team is kind of in flux. They go all the time, and said it was a particularly difficult set of trivia questions this week, but man, we got clobbered. I often surprise myself with the various bits of trivia I know, when I do things like play Trivial Pursuit, but just, WOW. That was a humbling experience, heh. ;)This just highlights a notion I've had in the past that, although I *am* intelligent, I'm not particularly wise in some areas. I've always had a strong interest in knowing how to Do, to Create, to accumulate skills, and I pursue that wholeheartedly. However, I think that's sometimes been to the exclusion of building general knowledge.
I've always learned quickly, and picked up skills easily in a number of areas, and I've always been confident in my intelligence. I know I'm above-average. Still, I've always been most interested in knowledge that I can apply to my life and the things I do, so I tend to get fixated on those areas. But, when it comes to holding a conversation about a lot of topics, my knowledge tends to run more surface-level, and I'm usually not the person who whips out the random factoids, or brings up interesting talking points.
I also sometimes feel like an unholy union of ADD and OCD traits, which doesn't help me at all. I seem to have more and more difficulty focusing on a task nowadays, but when I *do* find something I can focus on, I can get fixated to the point of obsession. This is great for the few things I actually do spend a lot of time on, because I can familiarize myself with them quickly and very well, but it doesn't exactly leave me a lot of energy for exploration outside of it.
It makes me sad sometimes that there's so much of the world I haven't seen, and know very little about. Obviously, I have to pick and choose with my time, but that's very difficult to accept... which is probably why I have such a strong tendency to overcommit my time. There are too many things I want to know, AND too many things I want to do, and I want all of it.
Well, I suppose there are worse things to be greedy about than knowledge and skill. So it's not a bad thing, it's just something that needs to be coped with. :)
