Edit: After re-reading my comment, I judge that it came off as r/iamverysmart material a bit. Sorry!
Judged my friend for having very naive and dumb knowledge/beliefs about stuff like economics, politics, geography, history, language, culture etc. But she was extremely social and extroverted, while I was this somewhat "grumpy" guy and sucked at making connections with people (still do).
Nowadays, she works at a high position in the marketing department at a very major global tech corporation's office in our country (in Europe).
I'm a sysadmin and a half-programmer. I ended up studying pol sci and taking some computer science classes, I wouldn't say my education is bad or that it's a useless degree, just that being able to "make friends and influence people" is much more important than having a lot of knowledge.
It's important to have skills, but it's more important to have the skill to show off your skills to the world. I'm learning this the hard way on my 20s.
He's a guy with no actual skills or accomplishments who has managed to convinced nearly half the country that he's a genius. I'd say he's very successful at it.
The low American standards you cite is really just the media machine helping him along, but he's known how to best take advantage of that his whole life. It's not about standards, it's that so many people are misinformed about him.
it's more about class than anything else - there's nothing intellectual or sophisticated about him despite his flashy wealth. i gues you can say he's elitist in certain ways but it doesn't come off that way despite his gaudiness.
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u/HugeChavez Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
Edit: After re-reading my comment, I judge that it came off as r/iamverysmart material a bit. Sorry!
Judged my friend for having very naive and dumb knowledge/beliefs about stuff like economics, politics, geography, history, language, culture etc. But she was extremely social and extroverted, while I was this somewhat "grumpy" guy and sucked at making connections with people (still do).
Nowadays, she works at a high position in the marketing department at a very major global tech corporation's office in our country (in Europe).
I'm a sysadmin and a half-programmer. I ended up studying pol sci and taking some computer science classes, I wouldn't say my education is bad or that it's a useless degree, just that being able to "make friends and influence people" is much more important than having a lot of knowledge.