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<blockquote data-quote="DarkwingPsyduck" data-source="post: 686597" data-attributes="member: 20267"><p>He sounds a lot like me. I was always smarter than everybody in the room. This was a problem, because it prevented me from being truly open to any kind of instruction. Why listen to somebody dumber than me, after all? It is the exact opposite of humility. He needs to start considering the fact that he may very well be of above average intelligence, but CLEARLY not when it comes to living a healthy, productive life. In that area, we are pretty useless. Every subject has experts, and the people at his treatment facility are the experts in why he is there to begin with. He must humble himself, and accept that he clearly hasn't been successful on his own, and it is time to try something else. Intelligence has nothing to do with it. Just an honest assessment of the problem shows that he cannot do it his way. He has tried many times, and always failed. Until he is ready to truly try something different, the odds are not in his favor, This is normal, though. I must have tried it that way hundreds of times before I finally got that. Intelligence obviously has no real part in that. Addiction is a mental disease. It affects geniuses and dull people the exact same way. Before addiction, intelligence is meaningless. Your IQ will not protect you from it's very real effects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarkwingPsyduck, post: 686597, member: 20267"] He sounds a lot like me. I was always smarter than everybody in the room. This was a problem, because it prevented me from being truly open to any kind of instruction. Why listen to somebody dumber than me, after all? It is the exact opposite of humility. He needs to start considering the fact that he may very well be of above average intelligence, but CLEARLY not when it comes to living a healthy, productive life. In that area, we are pretty useless. Every subject has experts, and the people at his treatment facility are the experts in why he is there to begin with. He must humble himself, and accept that he clearly hasn't been successful on his own, and it is time to try something else. Intelligence has nothing to do with it. Just an honest assessment of the problem shows that he cannot do it his way. He has tried many times, and always failed. Until he is ready to truly try something different, the odds are not in his favor, This is normal, though. I must have tried it that way hundreds of times before I finally got that. Intelligence obviously has no real part in that. Addiction is a mental disease. It affects geniuses and dull people the exact same way. Before addiction, intelligence is meaningless. Your IQ will not protect you from it's very real effects. [/QUOTE]
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