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seizethecheese on July 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Curse of Smart People

Nobody would assume Ghandi was dumb because he didn't know algorithms, how absurd.

More intelligent people absolutely are more adept at rationalization if they have that particular difficulty.

shadowfox on July 1, 2014 [–]

It also helps that Gandhi was highly educated (for his time), was a lawyer and quite a good writer, orator and politician. Not exactly the characteristic of an unsmart person.

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