Intelligence
I wonder how a kid becomes intelligent these days.
Every kid I see (of every age) is on a phone or an iPad. I'd like to think they were reading books, but it never seems to be the case. They're either watching videos or playing games.
Learning something is a process, and it seems like the process has been entirely short-circuited by the lure of fifteen seconds of gratification. Repeat 100X.
Eli 23.7 is the most intelligent person I know. He benefited, though, from growing up in an era when cellphones weren't quite ubiquitous. He didn't even have one until sixth grade (I held out for seventh, but lost). And when he did get a phone, he watched YouTube videos, but many of them were to learn something specific (which he would then practice endlessly until he mastered it). He was consuming content with a goal in mind.
The kids I see now just sit and watch with absolutely no goal in mind except the next video. If you don't know the process of learning, how do you spend your life? Is it just an endless sea of content?
I can't answer these questions, and it's discouraging.
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