How Not To Be Stupid
Stupidity is overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information. Here are seven situational factors that compromise your cognitive ability and result in increased odds of stupidity.
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Stupidity
Stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence. Stupidity is overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information: the information is in front of you and yet you ignore it.
Defining Stupidity
People think stupidity is the opposite of intelligence. In fact, stupidity is the cost of intelligence operating in a complex environment.
Stupidity can be defined as overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information.
It’s crucial information: You...
Factors that lead to stupidity
When it comes to overloading our cognitive brains, any one of these factors comes into play, but together they increase the odds that you've been cognitively compromised.
- Being outside your usual environment or changing your routines.
- Being in the presence of a group.
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