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by bpodgursky 1553 days ago
Spend a week in a workplace with an average IQ of 80 and get back to me about which feels worse.
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All of our culture deals with interactions between average people. People with significantly greater or less intelligence than average do not have a bank of ancient answers to ancient questions to draw on. One simple example of that would be norms against debt and lending - if you are very clever they don't apply to you, but that doesn't mean you don't need any norms. In fact someone who borrows and lends needs more guidelines and more complex guidelines if they're going to navigate business risks successfully.
The workplace that feels worse will be the one with an average IQ that is furthest from your IQ :)
Very true!:-)