How do you know you aren't smart? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by joel1974@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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To me it is chess. I know how the piece move but that is it.

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

Sounds like at least one of the books in question is shit

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Or the subject matter is advanced.

I've read a lot of material on quantum physics and it's still mostly word salad to me.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Right, I was expecting the earlier one to be a work of fiction

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

No no philosophy :(

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

You're not dumb if you fail to understand a book of philosophy. Very few are as straightforward as Das Kapital for example.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

I'll agree with that. Convoluted nonsense for the sake of being convoluted is very rarely good writing. There's some stuff with more complexity and longer developing story-lines, but the minute to minute reading should still flow even if you don't see how the big picture is going to develop.

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