Please don't take this too seriously.

[rah]

A showoff bookworm would have finished it the night before.

[Lorizael]

My self-esteem is ****ty, so I boost it by finding evidence that I'm smarter than most people, which is plainly obvious. This is a bad strategy, because (a) I have other qualities besides my intelligence that I'm nearly incapable of acknowledging, (b) when my intelligence does take a hit my self-esteem plummets, and (c) my self-esteem should be based on the fact that I have inherent value as a human being and bla bla bla.

[rah]

Well it seems you've already figured those things out so I don't need to remind you that you have value.

[Lorizael]

Figuring those things out isn't hard. After all, I'm smart. The hard part is believing all that crap.

[Lorizael]

My self-esteem is ****ty, so I boost it by finding evidence that I'm smarter than most people, which is plainly obvious. This is a bad strategy, because (a) I have other qualities besides my intelligence that I'm nearly incapable of acknowledging, (b) when my intelligence does take a hit my self-esteem plummets, and (c) my self-esteem should be based on the fact that I have inherent value as a human being and bla bla bla.

Case in point: I've got a 2 page linguistics paper due today at 2 pm. I've been procrastinating on it, but I figured I'd be able to whip something up today before the deadline. So this morning I looked at what is required of the paper, and it's not much, but the paper is based on an hour long video I have to watch first. I have plenty of time to write a 2 page paper, but I don't have time to watch and analyze and pull quotes from an hour long video. Oops. Now I feel like an idiot. Because I was relying on my intelligence and writing ability (strongly linked to my intelligence), I ignored that writing this paper might involve other skills, like preparedness and time management.

[Bereta_Eder]

IQ is the last refuge of the procastrinator!

[Lorizael]

I am a procrastinator par excellence.

[rah]

That doesn't make you different. That makes you normal. I'm sure most of us here fall into that category. I most certainly do.

[Sava]

IQ is the last refuge of the procastrinator!

hard work is for idiots who can't succeed with intelligence alone

[Lorizael]

That's a fairy tale I've been telling myself for decades.

[Sava]

That's a fairy tale I've been telling myself for decades.

Success is defined by how little one works to sustain a particular lifestyle.

By default, hard workers are failures. There's also a point where money/lifestyle becomes completely irrelevant due to the amount of work required.

[Lorizael]

Yeah, you and I have different definitions of success.

[Ben Kenobi]

I was referring to Ben. Pretty much any measure of experience that involves actual experience applies.

And? I wasn't dispensing advice. I was stating my preferences. Anyhoo. Glad to hear you're sailing along Lori!

[rah]

At least you're admitting you have no actual experience.

[ricketyclik]

"Work smart, not hard" is the motto I live by. It doesn't preclude work or planning, but avoids it where possible.