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by pistacchio 5281 days ago
i am generally regarded as an intelligent person, but i personally believe that intelligence is a highly overrated quality. speaking generally, being surrounded by intelligent people is "better", but if i ask myself, i'd rather have my girlfriend faithful, sweet and caring, my friends funny and reliable and my co-workers expert and easy-going because being stuck in an office with an intelligent moron 8 hours a day is not something i wish for myself.

so, while it is obviously better to have a friend fun AND intelligent or a girlfriend sweet AND intelligent, in the end pure smartness is never the first quality i look for in people.

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to me intelligence is something that's worth to the one who has it, meaning he'll be able to better interpret the reality that surrounds him and will have more power to adapt/readapt/understand things around him so that he doesn't live a miserable life...

for example, not being a ignorant miserable prick like Frank Miller: http://frankmillerink.com/2011/11/anarchy